A ma­jor cannabis cul­ti­va­tion op­er­a­tion was dis­man­tled in Gas­par­il­lo on Mon­day when po­lice seized mar­i­jua­na plants and processed drugs val­ued at more than $117,000.

Trinidad and To­ba­go is emerg­ing as the Caribbean’s an­chor for green fu­el bunker­ing, ac­cord­ing to a land­mark re­gion­al study un­veiled at the 24th Caribbean Ship­ping Ex­ec­u­tives’ Con­fer­ence (CSEC) in Willem­stad, Cu­raçao.

Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) pres­i­dent Fe­l­isha Thomas says the union is still wait­ing to meet with the Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer (CPO) to dis­cuss its counter pro­pos­al on the set­tle­ment of pub­lic of­fi­cers' salary ne­go­ti­a­tion ar­rears, de­scrib­ing the pro­longed de­lay as un­prece­dent­ed and claim­ing it rep­re­sents "the first un­set­tled set­tle­ment in his­to­ry."

French au­thor­i­ties or­dered near­ly 4,000 more peo­ple to evac­u­ate from At­lantic coast tourist sites Tues­day as re­turn­ing heat threat­ened fire­fight­ers’ frag­ile hold on a vast wild­fire west of Bor­deaux, widen­ing what may be France’s largest peace­time evac­u­a­tion.

Three brew­ers from Carib Brew­ery have com­plet­ed the World Brew­ing Acad­e­my (WBA) Diplo­ma in Brew­ing at the Doe­mens Acad­e­my in Ger­many, fol­low­ing a three-month in­ter­na­tion­al cer­ti­fi­ca­tion pro­gramme fo­cused on ad­vanced brew­ing sci­ence and pro­duc­tion.

Busi­ness­man Gary Aboud has claimed that the Syr­i­an-Lebanese com­mu­ni­ty in Trinidad and To­ba­go is liv­ing un­der an “omi­nous cloud of sus­pi­cion” amid what he de­scribed as po­lit­i­cal hate cam­paigns tar­get­ing the com­mu­ni­ty.

Some 36 years af­ter the Ju­ly 27, 1990 coup at­tempt, in­tel­li­gence gath­er­ing is “not one step bet­ter” and Trinidad and To­ba­go is at a “de­mo­c­ra­t­ic cross­roads” un­der the cur­rent UNC Gov­ern­ment.

Calami­ty was avert­ed at the Scar­bor­ough port on Mon­day night af­ter a run­away truck, loaded with con­crete blocks, al­most crashed in­to a car with a woman seat­ed in­side. The dra­ma un­fold­ed around 10.30 pm as ramp is­sues aboard the MV Gold­en Car­ri­er car­go ves­sel caused dam­aged to at least three ve­hi­cles as they at­tempt­ed to dis­em­bark.

Busi­ness­woman Star Sab­ga has been re­leased from de­ten­tion at the Women's Prison in Gold­en Grove af­ter spend­ing just over a month at the State fa­cil­i­ty.

Cheese mak­er Star Sab­ga is now at home af­ter be­ing re­leased on house ar­rest late Mon­day night fol­low­ing the ex­piry of a tem­po­rary stay grant­ed by the High Court.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro has or­dered a probe in­to the leaked tele­phone con­ver­sa­tion be­tween Genevieve Hadeed and Star Sab­ga, which be­gan cir­cu­lat­ing on so­cial me­dia over the week­end.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says she can­not com­ment on the specifics of the on­go­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to an al­leged plot to as­sas­si­nate her and se­nior mem­bers of her Gov­ern­ment, but in­sists the probe has widened sig­nif­i­cant­ly and now in­volves mul­ti­ple for­eign agen­cies.