Even as busi­ness­es in the vicin­i­ty of the Fu­ture Lead­ers Child­care and Ed­u­ca­tion Cen­tre, Tu­na­puna Road, Tu­na­puna, con­duct­ed op­er­a­tions as nor­mal yes­ter­day, the doors to the nurs­ery re­mained tight­ly locked.

Op­po­si­tion MPs have fierce­ly crit­i­cised the dis­missal of cor­rup­tion charges against sev­en po­lice of­fi­cers, call­ing it a “trav­es­ty of jus­tice” and a glar­ing fail­ure of T&T’s jus­tice sys­tem.

Fol­low­ing the col­lapse of the case against sev­en po­lice of­fi­cers ac­cused of ex­tor­tion on Mon­day, Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (DCP) Suzette Mar­tin, who head­ed the Pro­fes­sion­al Stan­dards Bu­reau (PSB) dur­ing the in­ves­ti­ga­tion, con­firmed that the mat­ter re­mains un­der re­view. 

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley and a min­is­te­r­i­al del­e­ga­tion trav­elled to George­town, Guyana yes­ter­day to at­tend sev­er­al meet­ings with Cari­com heads of gov­ern­ment and Prime Min­is­ter of In­dia, Shri Naren­dra Mo­di.

For­mer man­ag­ing di­rec­tor of ANSA Bank and gov­ern­ment min­is­ter Robert Le Hunte is not in agree­ment with the Prime Min­is­ter’s as­ser­tion that the de­mand for the Gov­ern­ment to de­val­ue the TT dol­lar is on­ly com­ing from peo­ple try­ing to make a quick prof­it.

There has been sig­nif­i­cant pub­lic back­lash to­wards the rec­om­men­da­tion by the lat­est Salaries Re­view Com­mis­sion’s (SRC) re­port to in­crease the salaries of sev­er­al se­nior pub­lic of­fi­cials, in­clud­ing the Prime Min­is­ter, the Op­po­si­tion Leader and the Pres­i­dent.

An in­com­ing mem­ber of the Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PolSC) who faced ob­jec­tions from the Op­po­si­tion is de­fend­ing him­self against claims of mis­con­duct re­lat­ed to his tenure as a se­nior hu­man re­source an­a­lyst at Petrotrin.

PNM San Fer­nan­do East sup­port­ers have pro­duced a jumpy elec­tion tune sup­port­ing in­cum­bent Bri­an Man­ning for the seat.

A High Court judge has or­dered the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) to pay ben­e­fits to a for­mer con­tract work­er six years af­ter his ser­vices were ter­mi­nat­ed.

Res­i­dents of Fyz­abad are urg­ing the po­lice to in­ves­ti­gate whether the mur­der of Syr­i­an busi­ness­man Muath Nas­sar is linked to ex­tor­tion.

A moth­er has tak­en le­gal ac­tion against the North West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NWRHA) af­ter she was de­nied ac­cess to cru­cial doc­u­ments re­lat­ed to the deaths of sev­en new­borns at the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal’s Neona­tal In­ten­sive Care Unit (NICU) in April.

As thou­sands of peo­ple across parts of Trinidad, Grena­da and Be­lize con­tin­ue to clean up in the af­ter­math of dev­as­tat­ing floods over the last week, the Al­liance of Small Is­land States (AO­SIS) says those peo­ple feel aban­doned in the face of del­i­cate ne­go­ti­a­tions re­gard­ing cli­mate fi­nance at COP29 tak­ing place in Baku, Azer­bai­jan.