The Amal­ga­mat­ed Work­ers’ Union (AWU) is call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to make good on its mid-year bud­get re­view promise to in­crease their salaries and pay back­pay af­ter set­tling ne­go­ti­a­tions in 2022.

Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Camille Robin­son-Reg­is says she is ac­cept­ing Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar's re­cent state­ment that she was "deeply hurt by racist re­marks" as an apol­o­gy to all Trinida­di­ans and To­bag­o­ni­ans who, she says, were of­fend­ed by the Prime Min­is­ter's own past com­ments on race.

The In­dus­tri­al Court has dis­missed le­gal ac­tion tak­en by Caribbean Air­lines Ltd (CAL) against the T&T Air­line Pi­lots As­so­ci­a­tion (TTAL­PA) for al­leged­ly fa­cil­i­tat­ing a sick-out protest by pi­lots in 2023.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing in­to the al­leged ab­duc­tion and sex­u­al as­sault of a 15-year-old girl on Thurs­day.

The Min­istry of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty’s Counter Traf­fick­ing Unit (CTU) says it is re­view­ing al­le­ga­tions con­tained in a Guardian Me­dia in­ter­view with a man who claimed he op­er­at­ed a hu­man traf­fick­ing ring in Trinidad and To­ba­go for years.

A Trinidad and To­ba­go per­ma­nent res­i­dent who was de­port­ed from the Unit­ed States last year is seek­ing US$10 mil­lion from the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion, al­leg­ing that he suf­fered med­ical ne­glect and abuse while in im­mi­gra­tion de­ten­tion in Texas.

A spe­cial re­port pre­sent­ed by UN­AIDS on the oc­ca­sion of the 26th In­ter­na­tion­al AIDS Con­fer­ence, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 27 to 31 Ju­ly, re­veals that re­duc­tions in in­ter­na­tion­al fund­ing and cuts to HIV pre­ven­tion ser­vices and com­mu­ni­ty-led ser­vices could cause a resur­gence of the epi­dem­ic.

Po­lice de­stroyed ap­prox­i­mate­ly 1,800 cannabis trees with an es­ti­mat­ed street val­ue of $2.43 mil­lion dur­ing an in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tion in Moru­ga on Thurs­day.

The Min­istry of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty’s Counter Traf­fick­ing Unit (CTU) says it is re­view­ing al­le­ga­tions con­tained in a Guardian in­ter­view with a man who claimed he op­er­at­ed a hu­man traf­fick­ing ring in Trinidad and To­ba­go for years.

Oprah Win­frey says she will close the school for un­der­priv­i­leged girls she set up in South Africa two decades ago at the end of next year.

The Pan Amer­i­can Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion (PA­HO) Fri­day called on coun­tries in the Amer­i­c­as, in­clud­ing the Caribbean, to strength­en pro­tec­tions for fam­i­lies against the grow­ing dig­i­tal mar­ket­ing of breast-milk sub­sti­tutes and oth­er prod­ucts that may un­der­mine breast­feed­ing.

A se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cer is in a sta­ble con­di­tion af­ter be­ing in­jured in an ac­ci­den­tal firearm dis­charge at the Min­istry of Works and In­fra­struc­ture build­ing in Port of Spain on Wednes­day evening.