Move­ment for So­cial Jus­tice leader and for­mer sen­a­tor David Ab­du­lah says the Op­po­si­tion Leader should have act­ed more de­ci­sive­ly amid the con­tro­ver­sy in­volv­ing Sen­a­tor Janelle John-Bates.

Thou­sands of mo­torists and busi­ness op­er­a­tors were left frus­trat­ed yes­ter­day morn­ing af­ter a na­tion­wide tech­ni­cal fail­ure forced the tem­po­rary clo­sure of Li­cens­ing Of­fices across Trinidad and To­ba­go, dis­rupt­ing ap­point­ments and send­ing ear­ly ar­rivals home.

Frus­tra­tion is brew­ing in Spey­side as a wa­ter short­age has left res­i­dents and busi­ness­es feel­ing the strain.

A brief pow­er out­age af­fect­ed sev­er­al ar­eas across Trinidad af­ter a gen­er­a­tion unit tripped yes­ter­day af­ter­noon.

Un­cer­tain­ty over the tim­ing of the mid-year bud­get re­view is height­en­ing con­cerns among unions, as a for­mer fi­nance min­is­ter warns of a widen­ing fis­cal deficit and ris­ing in­fla­tion, even as work­ers con­tin­ue to press for long-promised back­pay.

Amal­ga­mat­ed Work­ers’ Union (AWU) pres­i­dent Michael Pren­tice has ac­cused the State of “bla­tant dis­crim­i­na­tion in the worst way,” af­ter claim­ing that Port-of-Spain City Cor­po­ra­tion work­ers re­main with­out agreed salary in­creas­es and back­pay, de­spite oth­er pub­lic sec­tor groups al­ready re­ceiv­ing their ad­just­ments.

A 92-year-old re­tired nurse and for­mer nurs­ing tu­tor is urg­ing the Gov­ern­ment to recog­nise the val­ue of nurs­es by en­sur­ing they are paid salaries that al­low them to ad­e­quate­ly sup­port their fam­i­lies.

As Trinidad and To­ba­go heads in­to what some of­fi­cials ex­pect to be an ac­tive rainy and hur­ri­cane sea­son, Min­is­ter of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment, Khadi­jah Ameen, has launched a month-long na­tion­al pre­pared­ness cam­paign.

A re­tired nurse has won her law­suit against the Of­fice of the Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er over a de­ci­sion to refuse to dis­close de­tails of an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to her daugh­ter’s “mys­te­ri­ous” death that was ruled a sui­cide.

A for­mer Ca­roni (1975) Ltd em­ploy­ee has failed in his fi­nal bid to pur­sue a law­suit over be­ing re­trenched af­ter re­fus­ing vol­un­tary sep­a­ra­tion, al­most two decades ago.

A hold­ing com­pa­ny has lost its bid to have a law­suit over a $3.4 mil­lion loan it al­leged­ly guar­an­teed for its St Lu­cia-based sub­sidiary dis­missed at a pre­lim­i­nary stage. 

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) says a co­or­di­nat­ed mul­ti agency op­er­a­tion has dis­rupt­ed a group of in­di­vid­u­als in­for­mal­ly re­ferred to as the “Tall Boots Crew”, be­lieved to be be­hind a se­ries of home in­va­sion in­ci­dents across Cen­tral Trinidad.