The Court of Ap­peal has been asked to weigh in on a con­tentious lit­i­ga­tion over a move by the Gov­ern­ment to ter­mi­nate over 300 Com­mu­ni­ty-based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme Com­pa­ny (CEPEP) con­trac­tors. 

At least three Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ters are sup­port­ing Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s de­ci­sion to is­sue fierce warn­ings to her team to stop cer­tain prac­tices and “straight­en up.”

Just over one hun­dred days in­to the Gov­ern­ment’s term in of­fice, Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe says his min­istry has al­ready made mea­sur­able progress.

Trade unions are ea­ger­ly an­tic­i­pat­ing the re­lease of the Gov­ern­ment’s pro­posed work­ers’ agen­da, which is be­ing pro­mot­ed as the an­swer to sev­er­al long-stand­ing in­dus­tri­al re­la­tions is­sues, in­clud­ing an over re­liance on con­tract labour.

De­ter­mined not to al­low his girl­friend to be vi­o­lat­ed yes­ter­day, a Cen­tral man chased a ban­dit and held on to him af­ter he snatched a hand band from his la­dy love.

Sev­er­al Cus­toms clerks are ex­press­ing frus­tra­tion over the lack of ac­ces­si­ble wash­room fa­cil­i­ties at the San Fer­nan­do Cus­toms of­fice.

Af­ter two years of wait­ing for an­swers from the po­lice, DNA re­sults have con­firmed that a de­com­pos­ing body found on a beach was miss­ing Point Fortin moth­er, Aver­zon Miller.

With just over three weeks to go be­fore the new aca­d­e­m­ic school year be­gins, the Gov­ern­ment has an­nounced that po­lice of­fi­cers will be as­signed to schools across the coun­try.

A taxi dri­ver was shot dur­ing a hold-up in Pe­nal on Wednes­day morn­ing, but quick ac­tion by se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cers led to the ar­rest of two Venezue­lan na­tion­als min­utes lat­er.

Al­though Movi­eTowne chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer (CEO) Derek Chin has al­leged that the Port Au­thor­i­ty of T&T sought to take its land, a di­rec­tor at Movi­eTowne says while the board found the op­er­a­tions of the Port Au­thor­i­ty last year to be ques­tion­able, there was no ev­i­dence that there was a con­cert­ed ef­fort at land grab­bing in In­vaders Bay.

The fam­i­ly of slain teacher Bhag­mat Seemu­n­gal has con­demned the re­duced prison terms giv­en to five men, in­clud­ing her hus­band, who plead­ed guilty to her 2009 mur­der.

A day at the beach yes­ter­day turned trag­ic for a group of friends from Ari­ma, when 35-year-old An­drew Cur­tis Clarke went miss­ing in the sea at Pen­zante Bay, Ba­lan­dra.