The Of­fice of the Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer and the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion yes­ter­day signed a Mem­o­ran­dum of Agree­ment that pro­vides a 10 per cent in­crease in salaries and al­lowances for pub­lic of­fi­cers for the pe­ri­ods 2014 to 2016 and 2017 to 2019. The agree­ment al­so con­sol­i­dates the Cost of Liv­ing Al­lowance for both tri­en­nia.

Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer (CPO) Dar­ryl Din­di­al says a re­cent threat to his life made on so­cial me­dia has been “un­com­fort­able” for him as he is sim­ply do­ing his job, but has thanked the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) for their re­sponse in find­ing the per­son re­spon­si­ble.

Chief Sec­re­tary and To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP) leader Far­ley Au­gus­tine of­fi­cial­ly an­nounced the date for the  To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) elec­tion late last evening.

Days af­ter the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) and Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer (CPO) Dar­ryl Din­di­al agreed on a ten per cent wage in­crease for pub­lic ser­vants, the fi­nal dis­cus­sions over the de­tails be­hind the in­crease con­tin­ued late in­to last night.

CAS­TRIES: Prime Min­is­ter Philip J Pierre’s Saint Lu­cia Labour Par­ty (SLP) has cre­at­ed his­to­ry by se­cur­ing a con­sec­u­tive vic­to­ry in the 2025 Gen­er­al Elec­tions, mark­ing the first time in a decade that a po­lit­i­cal par­ty on the is­land has achieved back-to-back wins.

Act­ing For­eign Af­fairs Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath says if a hu­man­i­tar­i­an cri­sis un­folds in Venezuela due to po­ten­tial land at­tacks from the Unit­ed States, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has al­ready giv­en her com­mit­ment that Trinidad and To­ba­go will stand with the Venezue­lan peo­ple.

Hu­man rights ac­tivist Sofia Figueroa-Leon says Venezue­lans across the globe are hop­ing for a regime change in Venezuela.

Amid T&T’s role in cur­rent geopo­lit­i­cal is­sues and the re­cent US radar in­stal­la­tion in To­ba­go, the Cham­bers of the Greater Tu­na­puna, Greater San Fer­nan­do and Ch­agua­nas ar­eas have stressed that clear com­mu­ni­ca­tion from the State is need­ed to en­sure busi­ness and in­vest­ment re­main strong — and they have cit­ed con­cerns by some of their mem­bers and in­vest­ment col­leagues.

Apart from grow­ing pub­lic and vis­i­tor con­cern on T&T’s po­si­tion amid geopo­lit­i­cal ten­sions, cruise ship op­er­a­tors have re­port­ed a sig­nif­i­cant re­duc­tion in pre-booked tours, in­clud­ing one ves­sel can­celling its To­ba­go call for this Fri­day.

WASH­ING­TON (AP) — The White House said yes­ter­day that a Navy ad­mi­ral act­ed “with­in his au­thor­i­ty and the law” when he or­dered a sec­ond, fol­low-up strike on an al­leged drug boat in the Caribbean Sea in a Sep­tem­ber US mil­i­tary op­er­a­tion that has come un­der bi­par­ti­san scruti­ny.

Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der says that en­hanced tech­nol­o­gy and train­ing cour­tesy the US gov­ern­ment, par­tic­u­lar­ly in deal­ing with crime-fight­ing, will be in­tro­duced to T&T.

Port-of-Spain May­or Chin­ua Al­leyne con­firmed that 24 ve­hi­cles were wrecked yes­ter­day, as en­force­ment re­sumed across the cap­i­tal’s busi­ness dis­trict.