A ban­dit, pos­ing as a pas­sen­ger, shot a 48-year-old taxi dri­ver in the shoul­der dur­ing a heist at Chase Vil­lage, Ch­agua­nas on Fri­day night.

Sev­en peo­ple were ar­rest­ed and a stolen ve­hi­cle re­cov­ered dur­ing an an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion across the South­ern Di­vi­sion on Sat­ur­day.

Nu­trien’s strate­gic re­view of its Trinidad Ni­tro­gen op­er­a­tions is con­tin­u­ing, with rep­re­sen­ta­tives from third-par­ty or­gan­i­sa­tions ex­pect­ed to con­duct site vis­its at the Point Lisas fa­cil­i­ty this week.

Port Au­thor­i­ty work­ers are de­mand­ing the re­main­ing 80 per cent of their out­stand­ing back­pay and over­time, now es­ti­mat­ed at ap­prox­i­mate­ly $337 mil­lion, while press­ing the Port Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (PATT) Board to set­tle four long-de­layed col­lec­tive agree­ments dat­ing from 2014 to the present.

To mark the Au­gust 17 birth­day of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s on­ly No­bel Prize win­ner so far, Friends of Mr Biswas opens up a new per­spec­tive on the writer this week, ex­plor­ing his work un­der the wide-rang­ing top­ic “Moth­er­ing”.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) is seek­ing a venue for its an­nu­al con­ven­tion af­ter its re­quest to use Queen’s Hall on No­vem­ber 22 was de­nied be­cause the venue was ful­ly booked.

Ex­ec­u­tive mem­bers of the Trin­ba­go Uni­fied Ca­lyp­so­ni­ans Or­gan­i­sa­tion (TU­CO), led by chair­man An­si­ley King, yes­ter­day met with some mem­bers of the South/Cen­tral ca­lyp­so fra­ter­ni­ty at the San Fer­nan­do Cre­ative Arts Cen­tre to ad­dress re­cent griev­ances with­in the zone.

Five months af­ter leav­ing Trinidad for In­dia in the hope of beat­ing can­cer, 20-year-old Di­nesh Gadraj has died af­ter un­der­go­ing a bone mar­row trans­plant, leav­ing his fam­i­ly dev­as­tat­ed and his moth­er strug­gling to come to terms with his death.

The coun­try’s high­est ap­pel­late court will have the fi­nal say in an ap­peal over a de­ci­sion by the En­vi­ron­men­tal Com­mis­sion to is­sue de­c­la­ra­tions against a prop­er­ty de­vel­op­er and or­der it to pay com­pen­sa­tion for de­vel­op­ing a prop­er­ty in Las Cuevas with­out first ob­tain­ing a cer­tifi­cate of en­vi­ron­men­tal clear­ance (CEC).

Four months af­ter a High Court Judge di­rect­ed the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) to pay with­held re­tire­ment ben­e­fits to a woman po­lice Sergeant, who re­tired af­ter sus­tain­ing an on-the-job in­jury, she is yet to re­ceive her mon­ey.

A prison of­fi­cer has won his law­suit over the re­fusal of the Pub­lic Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PSC) to dis­close the rea­sons for its de­ci­sion to re­fer him to a dis­ci­pli­nary tri­bunal. 

Mil­lions of tax­pay­ers’ dol­lars could be lost at the trou­bled Ridgeview Heights hous­ing de­vel­op­ment in Bon Air North, where Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Hous­ing Phillip Alexan­der says some un­fin­ished struc­tures may now have to be de­mol­ished be­cause of ma­jor struc­tur­al prob­lems.