In the wake of Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um Com­pa­ny Ltd chair­man Kurt Ram­lal’s res­ig­na­tion, one of the en­er­gy com­pa­ny’s dis­missed di­rec­tors, Romel Lal­loo, says the Gov­ern­ment is “im­plod­ing”, with sev­er­al di­rec­tors and se­nior of­fi­cials de­part­ing State boards in re­cent months.

The body of a 45-year-old man was found float­ing at Pi­geon Point beach around mid­day yes­ter­day.

The Youth Train­ing and Em­ploy­ment Part­ner­ship Pro­gramme (YTEPP) Lim­it­ed is ex­plor­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties for greater col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Peo­ple’s Re­pub­lic of Chi­na in youth de­vel­op­ment, tech­ni­cal train­ing and work­force readi­ness.

The Na­tion­al Coun­cil of In­di­an Cul­ture (NCIC) has urged politi­cians and the me­dia to stop ex­ploit­ing race, re­li­gion, and cul­ture as tools of di­vi­sion in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

An­tigua & Bar­bu­da Fal­cons main­tained their per­fect home record with a six wick­et vic­to­ry over the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers at the Sir Vi­vian Richards Sta­di­um in the Re­pub­lic Bank Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL).

Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um chair­man Kurt Ram­lal has re­signed af­ter be­ing asked to step down last week, ac­cord­ing to se­nior Gov­ern­ment sources.

For­mer ed­u­ca­tion min­is­ter and sen­a­tor Hazel Man­ning is set to of­fer her­self for the chair­man­ship of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) San Fer­nan­do East (SFE) con­stituen­cy ex­ec­u­tive when elec­tions are held next month.

While con­cerned about the spate and un­pre­dictable na­ture of vi­o­lent crime, Ari­ma ven­dors say they will con­tin­ue their dai­ly rou­tines, al­beit with greater cau­tion, af­ter two men were gunned down in the bor­ough’s com­mer­cial cen­tre ear­ly on Sat­ur­day morn­ing.

One of two men who were beat­en to death by Venezue­lan na­tion­als dur­ing an al­ter­ca­tion in Fyz­abad on Fri­day had been re­leased from prison on­ly a few months ago.

In a move that com­bines high-stakes pol­i­tics and com­mu­ni­ty se­cu­ri­ty, the new wave of po­lice posts is be­ing strate­gi­cal­ly placed in Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) ar­eas.

The fu­ner­al of teenage dancer Jed­da Be­har­ry has been post­poned af­ter an au­top­sy failed to de­ter­mine the cause of her death.

One per­son has been ar­rest­ed and a sub­stan­tial quan­ti­ty of cop­per wire and ca­bles sus­pect­ed to be the prop­er­ty of the Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TSTT) re­cov­ered dur­ing an in­tel­li­gence-led po­lice op­er­a­tion in El So­cor­ro, San Juan.