To­day, in­sti­tu­tions, gov­ern­ments, or­gan­i­sa­tions, and in­di­vid­u­als around the globe will ob­serve World Day of the Boy Child (WD­BC) un­der the theme “Build­ing Self-es­teem in Boys: Stand Up, Be Heard, Be Seen.”

Brazil­ian con­struc­tion firm Con­struc­to­ra OAS SA will have to wait to learn the fate of its ap­peal over a judge’s de­ci­sion to set aside its al­most $850 mil­lion ar­bi­tra­tion award in re­la­tion to the Solomon Ho­choy High­way ex­ten­sion project to Point Fortin.

Six months af­ter dis­card­ing thou­sands of dol­lars’ worth of fur­ni­ture and house­hold items, 82-year-old David Matu­ra is brac­ing for an­oth­er year of se­vere flood­ing in Good­man Trace, Pe­nal.

Res­i­dents of Cou­va North are voic­ing frus­tra­tion over long­stand­ing in­fra­struc­ture prob­lems and are call­ing for help from their Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment, Jear­lean John.

Zwade Al­leyne fought hard to stay alive but his bat­tle end­ed trag­i­cal­ly yes­ter­day, as he suc­cumbed to in­juries he sus­tained one week ago af­ter he was shot in the head by a stray bul­let as he limed with friends near his home.

Act­ing Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (DCP), Op­er­a­tions, Curt Si­mon, has or­dered an au­dit in­to all po­lice uni­forms, ve­hi­cles and com­put­ers be­long­ing to the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS).

Po­lice are search­ing for a sec­ond sus­pect af­ter Wednes­day’s dar­ing rob­bery at Long Cir­cu­lar Mall, St James, that left his ac­com­plice dead.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath has dis­missed as “gos­sip and a con­coct­ed sto­ry” re­ports that the Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer of the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) is now an­swer­ing to two ju­nior staff mem­bers with­in the or­gan­i­sa­tion.

Prime Min­is­ter has called on Bar­ba­di­ans to con­front their colo­nial past and shape a new fu­ture, as the  400th an­niver­sary of the land­ing of the first British ship here passed large­ly un­no­ticed by the na­tion.

Sev­en years af­ter the shut­down of the Petrotrin Re­fin­ery, there is a re­newed push to restart op­er­a­tions by a col­lab­o­ra­tion be­tween the Con­fed­er­a­tion of Re­gion­al Busi­ness Cham­bers (CR­BC) and sev­er­al trade unions, in­clud­ing the Oil­field Work­ers Trade Union (OW­TU).

The Dean of the Fac­ul­ty of Food and Agri­cul­ture at The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies in St. Au­gus­tine, Pro­fes­sor Mark Wud­di­vi­ra, is urg­ing Agri­cul­ture Min­is­ter Ravi Rati­ram to push agri-tourism as a vi­able eco­nom­ic dri­ver for Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Me­dia Am­bas­sador for the Po­lice Ser­vice, ASP Owie Rus­sell, says the TTPS has re­ceived a new batch of body cam­eras that will be used by of­fi­cers to en­sure that in­ci­dents in­volv­ing the po­lice and mem­bers of the pub­lic can be record­ed ac­cu­rate­ly.