Fol­low­ing the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) de­feat in Mon­day’s To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) elec­tions, Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has con­grat­u­lat­ed To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP) leader Far­ley Au­gus­tine on his vic­to­ry, as have Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and Pa­tri­ot­ic Front (PF) leader Mick­ela Pan­day.

To­ba­go vot­ers have de­liv­ered a strong man­date to the To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP), which swept all 15 seats in the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA), leav­ing the leg­is­la­ture with­out an elect­ed op­po­si­tion. In re­sponse, the is­land’s busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty has sig­nalled its in­ten­tion to adopt a more as­sertive over­sight role to help safe­guard ac­count­abil­i­ty and en­sure To­ba­go’s de­vel­op­ment agen­da re­mains on track.

Or­der of the Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go (ORTT) hold­er and for­mer Chair­man of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (UTT), Pro­fes­sor Clement Im­bert, is lead­ing the calls for Dr Ed­ward ‘Ed­die’ Hart to be ho­n­oured via the com­ple­tion and re-ded­i­ca­tion of the Ed­die Hart Sa­van­nah, Tacarigua.

The Gov­ern­ment has sig­nalled an ur­gent move to ad­dress long-stand­ing land tenure chal­lenges in To­ba­go, as it re­vealed that more than $150 mil­lion in state lands has al­ready been trans­ferred to cit­i­zens across Trinidad through the gov­ern­ment-ac­cel­er­at­ed reg­u­lar­i­sa­tion pro­gramme.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der and chair­man of the Re­view Tri­bunal, David Alexan­der, have been giv­en un­til Fri­day to re­spond to chal­lenges by a group of peo­ple de­tained on Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDO), who are ques­tion­ing what de­lays have pre­vent­ed them from re­spond­ing to le­gal chal­lenges filed be­tween Au­gust and Oc­to­ber last year.

One puisne judge is mak­ing a com­mit­ment to rid the crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem of a back­log of cas­es.

The Geri­atric So­ci­ety of Trinidad and To­ba­go (GSTT) host­ed a flu vac­ci­na­tion dri­ve for the gen­er­al pub­lic on Mon­day in front of West Bees Su­per­mar­ket in Diego Mar­tin.

For more than a year, med­ical or­der­ly Na­tal­ie Hors­ford has limped in­to work with a walk­ing stick, her body wracked with pain and her spir­it worn by dis­ap­point­ment.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice has clar­i­fied that of­fi­cers are re­quired to re­lease a ve­hi­cle if the dri­ver or per­son in con­trol ap­pears while the ve­hi­cle is be­ing hooked up to a wreck­er, pro­vid­ed the ve­hi­cle has not yet been re­moved from where it was parked.

The Pan Amer­i­can Health Or­gan­i­sa­tion/World Health Or­gan­i­sa­tion (PA­HO/WHO) is call­ing for stronger gov­ern­ment over­sight of breast­milk sub­sti­tutes, warn­ing that some prod­ucts on the mar­ket may con­tain con­t­a­m­i­nants and pose risks to in­fants.

Po­lice ar­rest­ed three men, min­utes af­ter they stole a quan­ti­ty of choco­late and fruit snacks from a goods truck in St Joseph on Mon­day.

The au­top­sy for 74-year-old Doo­d­hani Vish­vati Sook­nanan has been post­poned again as no rel­a­tives were present to pos­i­tive­ly iden­ti­fy her body at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre, St James, yes­ter­day, po­lice sources said.