Ac­tivist Alyssa Phillip and her moth­er Camille Cares­quero have been charged fol­low­ing their ar­rests dur­ing Labour Day cel­e­bra­tions in Fyz­abad on Fri­day. 

PNM To­ba­go Coun­cil leader Sham­fa Cud­joe-Lewis has ac­cused Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar of weak lead­er­ship.

Palmiste Park vol­un­teers are call­ing for se­cu­ri­ty cam­eras and warn­ing signs to be in­stalled af­ter sev­er­al plants, in­clud­ing a rare pa­pyrus plant once used by the an­cient Egyp­tians to make pa­per, were stolen from the park’s re­cent­ly re­stored pond area.

The South-West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (SWRHA) cel­e­brat­ed its En­rolled Nurs­ing As­sis­tants (ENAs) and Pa­tient Care As­sis­tants (PCAs) in com­mem­o­ra­tion of In­ter­na­tion­al Nurs­ing As­sis­tants Day.

With Trinidad and To­ba­go’s mi­grant reg­u­lar­i­sa­tion ex­er­cise now of­fi­cial­ly closed, some mi­grants who say they at­tempt­ed to com­ply with the process are plead­ing for a fi­nal op­por­tu­ni­ty to be reg­is­tered.

Grad­u­at­ing stu­dents of Munroe Road (SDMS) Hin­du School were en­cour­aged to re­main ground­ed in their val­ues, em­brace fu­ture chal­lenges, and strive for ex­cel­lence as they pre­pare to en­ter sec­ondary school.

For­mer Trinidad and To­ba­go Con­trac­tors As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent Mikey Joseph says the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion’s (HDC) de­ci­sion to with­draw $3.4 bil­lion in hous­ing con­tracts ap­pears to be an at­tempt to con­tain fur­ther em­bar­rass­ment and re­store con­fi­dence in the pub­lic pro­cure­ment process.

As the Op­po­si­tion press­es for swift ac­tion over al­le­ga­tions in­volv­ing Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath and par­lia­men­tary staff, for­mer House Speak­er Nizam Mo­hammed be­lieves Jagdeo Singh should have ad­dressed the mat­ter be­fore it es­ca­lat­ed in­to a pub­lic con­tro­ver­sy.

Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Hous­ing Phillip Alexan­der has fired back at Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les’ call for the dis­missal of the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) board and all three hous­ing min­is­ters, fol­low­ing the can­cel­la­tion of the con­tro­ver­sial $3.4 bil­lion hous­ing pro­cure­ment process.

Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice So­cial and Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion (TTPSS­WA) pres­i­dent, ASP Ish­mael Pitt, has raised con­cern over the well-be­ing of po­lice of­fi­cers, warn­ing that the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE) and sus­tained high op­er­a­tional de­mands are plac­ing in­creas­ing strain on per­son­nel.

A bright Fri­day in Fyz­abad laid bare deep di­vi­sions with­in the labour move­ment as thou­sands of work­ers marched from Av­o­cat Junc­tion to Char­lie King Junc­tion, with mem­bers of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) boo­ing one union leader while oth­ers ap­plaud­ed, amid mount­ing frus­tra­tion over de­layed wage pay­ments and dif­fer­ing ap­proach­es to Gov­ern­ment en­gage­ment.

Labour Day cel­e­bra­tions in Fyz­abad were over­shad­owed yes­ter­day by the ar­rest of so­cial ac­tivist Alyssa Phillip af­ter po­lice stopped her and mem­bers of the 19 Bul­lets, 19 Protests move­ment from join­ing the an­nu­al march, prompt­ing crit­i­cism from trade union lead­ers and politi­cians.