Two men who were held dur­ing the man­hunt for the sus­pects in­volved in the dead­ly Pen­ny­wise rob­bery last week, yes­ter­day ap­peared in court charged with pos­ses­sion of arms and am­mu­ni­tion, in­clud­ing two as­sault ri­fles, for the pur­pose of traf­fick­ing.

The re­spec­tive al­lo­ca­tions for the 14 re­gion­al cor­po­ra­tions for the next fis­cal year in­clude large sums—up to a max­i­mum of $10m in some cas­es—for cor­po­ra­tions to han­dle road and bridge re­pair work.

The an­nounce­ment that se­nior cit­i­zens will no longer trav­el for free on the in­ter-is­land fer­ry be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go has come as a shock among se­nior cit­i­zens, who are al­so see­ing it as a form of dis­re­spect by the Gov­ern­ment.

Al­though hav­ing to pay an ad­di­tion­al dol­lar or 50 cents per litre for Su­per and Pre­mi­um gaso­line or diesel will heav­i­ly im­pact the prof­its of taxi dri­vers, many of them say they will not seek to take it back from the pock­ets of their pas­sen­gers, es­pe­cial­ly at this time.

For the sec­ond time since the new school year start­ed, par­ents of chil­dren at­tend­ing the Clax­ton Bay Ju­nior An­gli­can School protest­ed with plac­ards in front of the old school build­ing yes­ter­day.

Oil­fields Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU) pres­i­dent gen­er­al An­cel Ro­get says the 2023 Na­tion­al Bud­get was an­oth­er ex­am­ple of the Gov­ern­ment im­pos­ing hard­ship on the pop­u­la­tion.Ad­dress­ing the OW­TU and Cred­it Union League’s Peo­ple Sec­tor Post-Bud­get Fo­rum on Tues­day, Ro­get said Min­is­ter of Fi­nance Colm Im­bert at­tempt­ed a spin job to dupe peo­ple in­to think­ing the pro­posed fis­cal poli­cies were good for the coun­try.

The T&T Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion says teach­ers are un­hap­py with the 2022/2023 Bud­get, as the in­crease in fu­el prices makes it even more dif­fi­cult for them to sur­vive.

The In­dus­tri­al Court has dis­missed a com­plaint from the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) over on­go­ing plans to re­struc­ture the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA). 

An over­all al­lo­ca­tion of $143.3 mil­lion will be pro­vid­ed in fis­cal year 2023 to as­sist the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice in im­ple­ment­ing its pro­gramme of works and out of that, $88.7 mil­lion will be al­lo­cat­ed for crit­i­cal in­fra­struc­tur­al works, in­clud­ing roof re­pairs, elec­tri­cal up­grades, plumb­ing im­prove­ments, in­for­ma­tion tech­nol­o­gy up­grades and ex­pan­sion of fa­cil­i­ties.

A food dis­tri­b­u­tion com­pa­ny has won its law­suit against the Comp­trol­ler of the Cus­toms and Ex­cise Di­vi­sion over a move to seek to back du­ties on ship­ments of frozen pota­to wedges im­port­ed by it over the past decade. 

The Na­tion­al Trans­for­ma­tion Al­liance (NTA) says the Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to in­crease the fees for Firearm User Li­cens­es (FUL) shows how lit­tle it cares about pro­tect­ing cit­i­zens.
Re­spond­ing to the pro­posed changes to FUL fees, NTA’s North­west Co­or­di­na­tor Paul-Daniel Na­hous said the changes al­so show how much the Gov­ern­ment is will­ing to per­se­cute reg­u­lar peo­ple.

The Gov­ern­ment will al­lo­cate $200 mil­lion for the con­struc­tion of a ter­mi­nal and as­so­ci­at­ed fa­cil­i­ties of the ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port in fis­cal 2023.