The State has agreed to pay al­most $80,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to a me­chan­ic from Tu­na­puna, who was wrong­ful­ly ar­rest­ed and de­tained for 12 hours be­fore be­ing re­leased.

The Eco­nom­ic Com­mis­sion for Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean (ECLAC)  says the pop­u­la­tion in the re­gion reached 663 mil­lion this year, near­ly four per cent less than what had been fore­cast in 2000.

Ch­agua­nas East MP Van­dana Mo­hit is urg­ing the gov­ern­ment to take more ac­tion to ad­dress the ex­tor­tion is­sue af­fect­ing busi­ness­es in Cunu­pia and War­renville.

The Joint Trade Union Move­ment (JTUM) has called on cit­i­zens to gath­er out­side White­hall on Sat­ur­day, De­cem­ber 7, at 9 a.m. to protest the gov­ern­ment’s ac­cep­tance of the Salaries Re­view Com­mis­sion’s (SRC) rec­om­men­da­tions.

Caribbean coun­tries are be­ing told that 2025 is like­ly to be an­oth­er year of cli­mate ex­tremes, with re­gion­al fore­cast­ers not­ing that 2024 has been a year of ex­tremes, in keep­ing with their fore­cast ear­li­er in the year.

Af­ter weeks of push­ing ear­ly deals, re­tail­ers in the Unit­ed States and some oth­er coun­tries tried to se­duce cus­tomers with promis­es of big­ger dis­counts on Black Fri­day, the sales event that still reigns as the un­of­fi­cial kick-off of the hol­i­day shop­ping sea­son even if it’s lost some lus­tre.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley is trav­el­ing to Bar­ba­dos to­day to meet with se­nior U.S. gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials.

A Clax­ton Bay cou­ple was shot to death last night while at home with their sev­en-month-old ba­by.

The Gov­ern­ment has un­apolo­get­i­cal­ly ac­cept­ed the rec­om­men­da­tions of the Salaries Re­view Com­mis­sion (SRC), which will pave the way for a pay in­crease, sub­stan­tial in some cas­es, for politi­cians and oth­er pub­lic of­fi­cers.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley yes­ter­day con­firmed that Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Hinds had with­drawn his con­sent to be nom­i­nat­ed as the can­di­date for Laven­tille West. The PM said he had “no hand” in it.

Op­er­a­tions at the port in Port-of-Spain are mov­ing at a snail’s pace, ac­cord­ing to some port work­ers. It comes af­ter more than a month of in­dus­tri­al ac­tion led by the Sea­men and Wa­ter­front Work­ers Trade Union (SWW­TU), which end­ed last week af­ter an In­dus­tri­al Court in­junc­tion or­dered port work­ers back to work.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has di­rect­ed Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert to take a more di­rect role in re­solv­ing the im­passe over salary in­creas­es at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies St Au­gus­tine cam­pus.