The on­go­ing im­passe at the Port of Port-of-Spain re­mains un­re­solved, caus­ing ma­jor dis­rup­tions to op­er­a­tions and ad­verse­ly af­fect­ing the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty. There seems to be no end in sight as nei­ther side has budged in the port pay dis­pute.

The Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) has hailed a re­cent High Court judg­ment as a land­mark win for ac­count­abil­i­ty and work­ers’ rights. 

MP for Laven­tille East/Mor­vant and Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Hous­ing Adri­an Leonce be­lieves the Gov­ern­ment will not adopt the Salaries Re­view Com­mis­sion’s (SRC) re­port propos­ing wage hikes for 950 state of­fi­cials across 325 cat­e­gories of of­fices at this time.

Five new mem­bers of the Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PolSC) have been ap­proved by the Par­lia­ment.

The Prime Min­is­ter says Gov­ern­ment will not bow to “spe­cial in­ter­est pres­sure” to de­val­ue the TT dol­lar. Speak­ing on the for­eign ex­change is­sue for the first time yes­ter­day, the Prime Min­is­ter said the pres­sure to de­val­ue was com­ing from peo­ple who large­ly have for­eign ex­change. He said de­val­u­a­tion will in­crease costs and make those with for­eign ex­change wealth­i­er.

A fi­nal re­port on the probe in­to the Strate­gic Ser­vices Agency (SSA) will be avail­able some­time in the not-too-dis­tant fu­ture, says Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley said the So­lo Creed tug­boat and those as­so­ci­at­ed with it were op­er­at­ing il­le­gal­ly and took many steps to hide their iden­ti­ties. Some of the steps in­clude al­leged­ly fal­si­fy­ing rel­e­vant doc­u­ments.

The founder of In­ter­na­tion­al Men’s Day (IMD) and World Day of the Boy Child in T&T, Dr Jerome Teelucks­ingh, has urged men to val­ue them­selves as he ex­pressed con­cern about the ris­ing sta­tis­tics of crime and self-harm among men in the coun­try. He’s al­so trou­bled by the glo­ri­fi­ca­tion of gang cul­ture in T&T.

Siparia May­or Dood­nath Mayrhoo has chal­lenged his UNC col­leagues to pro­vide ev­i­dence of al­leged cor­rup­tion to the po­lice, in­sist­ing he has noth­ing to hide.

CAISO: Sex and Gen­der Jus­tice has joined LGBTQIA+ ac­tivists in con­demn­ing the bru­tal mur­der of fel­low ad­vo­cate Ken­nty Mitchell. It has al­so said it will be mon­i­tor­ing the po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the killing to en­sure it is thor­ough and un­bi­ased.

Scrap Iron Deal­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTSI­DA) pres­i­dent Al­lan Fer­gu­son says he is ready to tie a hand­ker­chief around his head and go to “war” to save the lo­cal in­dus­try.

Dis­grun­tled res­i­dents of Wel­come Road North and Wel­come Road South, Cunu­pia, burned tyres in protest yes­ter­day to high­light, what they called, the wors­en­ing con­di­tions of roads in the Cen­tral com­mu­ni­ty.