Leader of the Na­tion­al Trans­for­ma­tion Al­liance (NTA) Gary Grif­fith is un­fazed af­ter be­ing ex­clud­ed from the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) coali­tion of in­ter­ests. The UNC has formed an al­liance with the Pro­gres­sive Em­pow­er­ment Par­ty (PEP) led by Phillip Alexan­der, Laven­tille Out-Reach for Ver­ti­cal En­rich­ment (LOVE) head­ed by Lennox Smith along with the sup­port of sev­er­al unions. Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar al­so made it clear that she will not be team­ing up with Grif­fith, who she ac­cused of dis­re­spect­ing her ex­ec­u­tive mem­bers.

MP Colm Im­bert has re­peat­ed his in­ten­tion to re-con­test the Diego Mar­tin North/East seat while chang­ing his tune on a com­ment he made in 2011 about politi­cians in their 60s

Po­lice ar­rest­ed a 43-year-old sus­pect hours af­ter a video was post­ed on so­cial me­dia of a man beat­ing and abus­ing a nine-year-old boy. The boy and his two younger broth­ers have been re­moved from their home in Moru­ga. Their moth­er was mur­dered in 2021.

AS­JA gen­er­al sec­re­tary Rahi­mool Ho­sein is with­hold­ing com­ment on the on­go­ing le­gal dis­pute in­volv­ing one of its schools un­til the mat­ter is heard in court.

The men left Pi­geon Point Fish Port at 6 am on Tues­day aboard a white and blue fi­bre­glass pirogue, TFT 1528 – XE­NA, but nev­er re­turned. The Coast Guard has launched a search. How­ev­er, haz­ardous sea con­di­tions have de­layed them.

The Prison Of­fi­cers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (POA) is de­mand­ing im­me­di­ate gov­ern­ment in­ter­ven­tion, fol­low­ing the dis­ap­pear­ance of a wa­ter pump from the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison (MSP), Arou­ca, and a pi­geon in­fes­ta­tion at the East­ern Cor­rec­tion­al Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre (ECRC) in San­ta Rosa.

Po­lice are search­ing for two men who es­caped cus­tody from the St Ann’s Hos­pi­tal yes­ter­day morn­ing.

As in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue in­to the kid­nap­ping and sub­se­quent mur­der of busi­ness­man Shashi Anand Ram­per­sad, fel­low res­i­dents and friends of the de­ceased man ex­pressed shock and sad­ness at his mur­der.

An em­ploy­ee of the Board of In­land Rev­enue (BIR) is su­ing her em­ploy­er, af­ter she was re­as­signed to an­oth­er de­part­ment af­ter be­ing ac­cused of prac­tis­ing “voodoo.”

Stake­hold­ers who oc­cu­py the Ca­roni Bird Sanc­tu­ary are call­ing for some­thing to be done to ad­dress a cat in­fes­ta­tion at the na­tion­al park, as over 100 of the an­i­mals are now roam­ing the en­vi­ron­men­tal­ly pro­tect­ed site.

The Min­istry of Pub­lic Util­i­ties (MPU) will be closed on Fri­day to deal with a ro­dent in­fes­ta­tion at its head of­fice at One Alexan­der Street, St Clair, Port-of-Spain.

The Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion (NCC) is al­lo­cat­ing a mere $750,000 to the San Fer­nan­do City Cor­po­ra­tion to run Car­ni­val cel­e­bra­tions in the south­ern city.