Pub­lic Ser­vices’ As­so­ci­a­tion’s (PSA) pres­i­dent Fe­l­isha Thomas has agreed that pub­lic ser­vants will take a part pay­ment of the back­pay Gov­ern­ment will owe them be­fore the end of the year.

Hours af­ter the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) and the Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer (CPO) suc­cess­ful­ly signed off on a 10 per cent wage hike for pub­lic ser­vants, sev­er­al labour move­ments urged the Gov­ern­ment to hold sim­i­lar con­sul­ta­tions with them.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine says he does not sup­port “out­siders” mak­ing de­ci­sions for To­ba­go and be­lieves the is­land must have a greater say in mat­ters that af­fect it.

Af­ter shock­ing the To­ba­go elec­torate with his sur­prise se­lec­tion as the To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty’s (TPP) can­di­date for Buc­coo/Mt Pleas­ant, Keigon De­noon says his de­ci­sion to part ways with the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) stemmed from the calls of young peo­ple in his com­mu­ni­ty urg­ing him to chart a new path.

Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots (PDP) leader Wat­son Duke yes­ter­day stayed mum on his par­ty’s plans for Jan­u­ary 12 THA elec­tion, and two po­lit­i­cal an­a­lysts be­lieve his ac­tion may sig­nal the end of his decade-long po­lit­i­cal ca­reer.

The Pro­mot­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTPA) is ap­peal­ing to Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to re­con­sid­er Gov­ern­ment’s re­cent de­ci­sion to ban fetes at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my, Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um and the Jean Pierre Com­plex, warn­ing that the move threat­ens the 2026 Car­ni­val sea­son.

The moth­er of Alian­na Sama­roo, who was ar­rest­ed one week ago on a Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO) af­ter is­su­ing pub­lic posts on so­cial me­dia deemed to be prej­u­di­cial to pub­lic safe­ty, is ur­gent­ly beg­ging Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to for­give her.

A po­lice of­fi­cer and a Trini­bad artiste are among the lat­est peo­ple to have de­ten­tion or­ders is­sued against them.

A 48-year-old Diego Mar­tin man has been charged with three counts of threats to kill and four counts of mis­use of an elec­tron­ic de­vice, fol­low­ing an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to threats made via so­cial me­dia against Sen­a­tor Dr Amery Browne.

Gov­ern­ment’s an­ti-Home In­va­sion bill isn’t a “one-stop fix-all” pol­i­cy an­swer to crime and home in­va­sions, since there are oth­er mat­ters to be dealt with, in­clud­ing the lib­er­al­i­sa­tion “in a rea­son­able way” with ac­cess to firearms and oth­er meth­ods of de­fend­ing one­self.

Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment Sen­a­tor San­jiv Bood­hu says pro­vi­sions in the Gov­ern­ment’s Home In­va­sion (Self De­fence and De­fence of Prop­er­ty) Bill 2025 are al­ready cov­ered by ex­ist­ing law and the bill doesn’t al­low peo­ple to sim­ply “load de ’mat­ic, knock it on dem, emp­ty the clip, re­load and knock it on dem again.”

Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Faris Al-Rawi is ques­tion­ing whether the Home In­va­sion bill would ex­tend pro­tec­tion to squat­ters, ask­ing if in­di­vid­u­als who have no le­gal claim to land they oc­cu­py would still be en­ti­tled to de­fend them­selves against in­trud­ers.