The Privy Coun­cil has re­served its de­ci­sion on a fi­nal ap­peal in a law­suit brought by for­mer Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion of T&T (Ude­cott) ex­ec­u­tive chair­man Calder Hart over ad­verse find­ings made against him by the Com­mis­sion of En­quiry (CoE) in­to the Las Al­turas Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment in Mor­vant.

The Op­po­si­tion is de­clar­ing war on the rul­ing Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) over what they say is the fir­ing of thou­sands of work­ers, which has left par­ents un­der se­vere fi­nan­cial stress.  The Op­po­si­tion says many peo­ple have been telling them they re­gret vot­ing for the UNC.

As the new­ly ap­point­ed CEPEP board pre­pares to out­line the fu­ture of hir­ing con­trac­tors, one re­gion­al cor­po­ra­tion is work­ing to cush­ion the im­pact of re­cent job loss­es by of­fer­ing short-term em­ploy­ment op­por­tu­ni­ties to some of the dis­placed work­ers.

Diego Mar­tin Cen­tral MP Symon de No­bri­ga says that the re­cent ter­mi­na­tion of work­ers from the Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) has al­ready had vis­i­ble ef­fect on his con­stituen­cy as sev­er­al res­i­dents are in dire need of fi­nance help.

Both the for­mer head of the Na­tion­al Op­er­a­tions Cen­tre (NOC), Dr Garvin Heer­ah and for­mer na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty min­is­ter Gary Grif­fith agree with Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der that the NOC is be­ing un­der­utilised.

Ar­rive Alive pres­i­dent Sharon In­gle­field is urg­ing prop­er en­force­ment of the coun­try’s traf­fic laws as the Gov­ern­ment scraps the de­mer­it points sys­tem for the ma­jor­i­ty of traf­fic vi­o­la­tions.

A Cunu­pia man was found dead in his home yes­ter­day morn­ing, bound and beat­en in what po­lice be­lieve was a home in­va­sion.

The Min­istry of Health, the Med­ical Board of Trinidad and To­ba­go, the Phar­ma­cy Board, and the Trinidad and To­ba­go Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce have agreed to a 30-day col­lab­o­ra­tive plan to re­solve con­cerns over the dis­tri­b­u­tion of spe­cial­i­ty drugs di­rect­ly to pa­tients.

A spe­cial needs teacher who was de­mot­ed over al­leged qual­i­fi­ca­tion is­sues has been grant­ed leave to pur­sue a law­suit con­cern­ing the dis­clo­sure of in­for­ma­tion need­ed for her em­ploy­ment dis­pute.

A gar­den­er from Rio Claro is set to re­ceive more than $500,000 in com­pen­sa­tion af­ter be­ing framed by po­lice for mar­i­jua­na traf­fick­ing near­ly two decades ago.

An aban­doned house on Rush­worth Street in San Fer­nan­do, fre­quent­ly oc­cu­pied by street dwellers, was de­stroyed by fire yes­ter­day morn­ing.

Min­is­ter of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries Dr Roodal Mooni­lal has ex­pressed sup­port for his min­is­te­r­i­al col­league Ernesto Ke­sar, who was named in a re­cent High Court rul­ing against the Oil­field Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU).