Pres­i­dent of the Joint Con­sul­ta­tive Coun­cil (JCC), Fazir Khan, has re­spond­ed to Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s re­cent state­ment that bil­lions have been spent on road­works with “hard­ly any good road to show” by say­ing that any­one with in­for­ma­tion of a con­tract not be­ing prop­er­ly ex­e­cut­ed should take it to the Of­fice of Pro­cure­ment Reg­u­la­tion. The Prime Min­is­ter called for greater tech­ni­cal over­sight and the use of new­ly im­ple­ment­ed pro­cure­ment tools to en­sure ac­count­abil­i­ty.

The Farai Hove Ma­sai­sai-led Peo­ple’s Cham­pi­ons slate which is con­test­ing the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s up­com­ing in­ter­nal elec­tions, has made it clear that it has no as­so­ci­a­tion with the anony­mous group call­ing it­self the PNM Change­mak­ers 2025.

The lo­cal arts fra­ter­ni­ty is pay­ing trib­ute to Zin­nia Li Chee­wah (born Dar­ren Chee­wah), 55, who was a break­out star on Par­ty Time in the 1980s and a beloved fig­ure, es­pe­cial­ly among young peo­ple in west Trinidad. Known for break­ing moulds, Chee­wah pre­ferred to be re­ferred to as “she” af­ter tran­si­tion­ing lat­er in life.

Po­lice of­fi­cers in To­ba­go de­stroyed a $525,000 cannabis field af­ter a pre-dawn op­er­a­tion in Belle Gar­den yes­ter­day morn­ing.

Af­ter three nights of fear and trau­ma sleep­ing in­side a col­laps­ing ply­wood home, 45-year-old grand­moth­er Ge­nieve Pierre, her eight-year-old daugh­ter, and nine-year-old grand­son have fi­nal­ly been evac­u­at­ed and giv­en shel­ter at the Oropouche Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre.

The An­ti-Ex­tor­tion Unit of the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has re­ceived 41 re­ports since the year be­gan, from vic­tims who are be­ing “taxed” by un­scrupu­lous per­sons look­ing to make a quick and easy dol­lar.

A cou­ple from Ch­agua­nas has been freed of six crim­i­nal charges re­lat­ed to an al­leged at­tack on an oys­ter ven­dor from Fe­lic­i­ty.

A busi­ness­man from Pe­nal has won his law­suit over the de­ten­tion of nine lux­u­ry ve­hi­cles by the Cus­toms and Ex­cise Di­vi­sion (CED). 

The Ju­di­cia­ry has reaf­firmed its pol­i­cy on vir­tu­al hear­ings in crim­i­nal mat­ters, stress­ing that peo­ple charged with of­fences must ap­pear on the same day via video link with­out be­ing trans­port­ed to a cour­t­house.

Pres­i­dent of the Joint Con­sul­ta­tive Coun­cil (JCC), Fazir Khan, has re­spond­ed to Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s re­cent state­ment that bil­lions have been spent on road­works with “hard­ly any good road to show”. He called for greater tech­ni­cal over­sight and the use of new­ly im­ple­ment­ed pro­cure­ment tools to en­sure ac­count­abil­i­ty.

To­ba­go po­lice de­stroyed a $525,000 cannabis field af­ter a pre-dawn op­er­a­tion in Belle Gar­den on Fri­day morn­ing.

A 74-year-old pen­sion­er was shot and killed by an off-du­ty po­lice of­fi­cer ear­ly Fri­day morn­ing in Mt St George, To­ba­go—less than six weeks af­ter an­oth­er man was fa­tal­ly shot by po­lice while hand­cuffed.