This as To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly Sec­re­tary of Youth Em­pow­er­ment and Sport Keigon De­noon re­it­er­at­ed a state­ment by Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine that the US mil­i­tary would be leav­ing the is­land with­in days, but re­fused to give the ex­act date.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing how a quan­ti­ty of spent shells bear­ing the mark­ing ‘TTR’ and ‘TTAG’ came to be used in a sol­dier’s mur­der in Ch­agua­nas on Sat­ur­day night.

There are mixed views from lawyers to At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie’s re­cent warn­ing about so­cial me­dia com­men­tary by cit­i­zens dur­ing the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE), with some say­ing his com­ments do not sug­gest there is any le­gal breach but oth­ers urg­ing cau­tion about what is said on­line as well as over the pos­si­bil­i­ty of sti­fling of free speech.

Ad­di­tion­al flights on the do­mes­tic air­bridge will be in­tro­duced soon to en­sure every­one who wants to get to To­ba­go for the East­er hol­i­days is fa­cil­i­tat­ed.

Gov­ern­ment rep­re­sen­ta­tives used a pub­lic Eid-ul-Fitr dawah event in San Fer­nan­do on Sat­ur­day to reaf­firm re­spect for the Is­lam­ic faith and pro­mote un­der­stand­ing with­in the wider na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty.

Of­fi­cials con­duct­ed a tri­al run of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s new on­line ar­rival and de­par­ture card sys­tem at Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port on Sat­ur­day with three Caribbean Air­lines flights, as of­fi­cials pre­pare for its roll­out to­mor­row.
Trav­ellers on flights BW 527 and BW 431 ar­riv­ing at Pi­ar­co, along with pas­sen­gers on out­bound flight BW 240, par­tic­i­pat­ed in the ex­er­cise. The process re­quired them to log on to the Gov­ern­ment’s trav­el por­tal, cre­ate an ac­count us­ing an email ad­dress, up­load a pho­to­graph of the bio­da­ta page of their pass­port, and com­plete the re­quired im­mi­gra­tion and cus­toms de­tails be­fore trav­el.

San Fer­nan­do May­or Robert Par­ris has vowed to in­ves­ti­gate af­ter ven­dors at the Mara­bel­la Mar­ket lost earn­ings due to the sud­den en­force­ment of a 1 pm Sun­day clo­sure.

The cur­rent Mid­dle East con­flict has not im­pact­ed on any of the arrange­ments or ex­pres­sions of in­ter­ests re­gard­ing Gov­ern­ment’s Blue­print In­vest­ment plan to date, ac­cord­ing to Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar

Months af­ter the pool in the com­mu­ni­ty fell in­to dis­re­pair for a third time de­spite tax­pay­ers spend­ing over $1.1 mil­lion on re­pairs, res­i­dents are again call­ing on the Min­istry of Sport and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment to re­fur­bish and re­open the Co­coyea Com­mu­ni­ty Pool ur­gent­ly.

SAN JOSÉ, Cos­ta Ri­ca (AP) — Grow­ing up in Trinidad and To­ba­go, Car­lon Au­gus­tus re­mem­bers read­ing the news­pa­pers his grand­par­ents bought dai­ly. Now 32, he says he turns to so­cial me­dia for the lat­est news.

Three telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions tech­ni­cians from across the Caribbean have se­cured in­ter­na­tion­al cer­ti­fi­ca­tion as part of a re­gion­al train­ing ini­tia­tive launched by Lib­er­ty Caribbean, the op­er­a­tor of Flow, Lib­er­ty Busi­ness and BTC.

As gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials and civ­il so­ci­ety ac­tors de­scend­ed on St Lu­cia this month, oil prices were ris­ing, buoyed on by a war in the Mid­dle East that has over­shad­owed the one in Eu­rope. St Lu­cia was the des­ti­na­tion for some of the finest minds in the re­gion to con­vene for a meet­ing on a glob­al just tran­si­tion from fos­sil fu­els. A pre­cur­sor to the much-an­tic­i­pat­ed First Con­fer­ence on Tran­si­tion­ing Away from Fos­sil Fu­els, in San­ta Mar­ta, Colom­bia be­tween April 24 and 29. The con­ven­ing would ul­ti­mate­ly har­monise the Caribbean's po­si­tion ahead of the in­ter­na­tion­al sum­mit.