Hous­ing Min­is­ter David Lee wants cit­i­zens to stand firm in the face of at­tempts by peo­ple to cre­ate a racial di­vide in the coun­try, in­sist­ing, “We are one peo­ple.”

It’s the lat­est da­ta on the coun­try’s labour force sur­vey avail­able on the Cen­tral Sta­tis­ti­cal Of­fice (CSO) web­site, which is re­spon­si­ble for col­lect­ing, analysing and dis­sem­i­nat­ing of­fi­cial sta­tis­tics.

De­spite be­ing pub­licly thanked by a se­nior Unit­ed States sen­a­tor for Trinidad and To­ba­go’s as­sis­tance in the cap­ture of for­mer Venezue­lan pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is main­tain­ing that this coun­try’s mil­i­tary played no role in the op­er­a­tion that led to his ar­rest.

A let­ter from First Cit­i­zens Bank (FCB) has raised ques­tions about the in­tro­duc­tion of two ad­di­tion­al en­ti­ties in­to the Gov­ern­ment’s U-Turn on­line pay­ment sys­tem just a day be­fore its planned launch, warn­ing that the re­vised arrange­ment could af­fect the cost of trans­ac­tions to cit­i­zens de­spite the bank al­ready hav­ing an e-com­merce agree­ment with the Min­istry of Trans­port.

A his­toric South Oropouche land­mark was re­duced to ash­es yes­ter­day morn­ing af­ter fire de­stroyed the aban­doned post of­fice and for­mer war­den’s of­fice, with flames spread­ing to the roof of a neigh­bour­ing home where 15 peo­ple, in­clud­ing Venezue­lan mi­grants, live.

PNM po­lit­i­cal leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les says the par­ty will let the courts de­cide its bat­tle over a Pre­lim­i­nary Un­ex­plained Wealth Or­der linked to the fi­nanc­ing of Bal­isi­er House, as Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary Fos­ter Cum­mings vowed the op­po­si­tion would fight the case “with all its might.”

An es­caped mur­der ac­cused was shot dead by po­lice dur­ing an an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion in Vista­bel­la on Fri­day night.

Af­ter suf­fer­ing a stroke more than a year ago, Heather Al­moralis-Dann says she is still wait­ing to re­ceive the funds from Na­tion­al In­sur­ance Board Sick­ness Ben­e­fit, which she says will go to­wards much-need­ed med­ical and liv­ing ex­pens­es.

As a restart for the Pointe-a-Pierre re­fin­ery looms ahead, for­mer Petrotrin chair­man Wil­fred Es­pinet, who led the clo­sure and re­struc­tur­ing of the com­pa­ny, re­mains scep­ti­cal.

In­stead of spend­ing Eman­ci­pa­tion Day at cel­e­bra­tions or re­lax­ing with fam­i­ly, a group of Sea Scouts ded­i­cat­ed the pub­lic hol­i­day to clean­ing and pre­serv­ing the his­toric graves of the Sir La­m­ont fam­i­ly, for­mer own­ers of Palmiste Es­tates, while urg­ing cit­i­zens to help pro­tect Trinidad and To­ba­go’s her­itage.

A his­toric South Oropouche land­mark was re­duced to ash­es on Sat­ur­day af­ter fire de­stroyed the aban­doned post of­fice and for­mer War­den’s Of­fice, with flames spread­ing to the roof of a neigh­bour­ing home where 15 peo­ple, in­clud­ing Venezue­lan mi­grants, live.

An es­caped mur­der ac­cused was shot dead by po­lice dur­ing an op­er­a­tion in Vista­bel­la on Fri­day night.