The To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) has tak­en a step to­wards mod­ernising its fi­nan­cial frame­work in line with the Pub­lic Pro­cure­ment Act af­ter 30 years in abeyance.

A 58-year-old labour­er died af­ter re­port­ed­ly falling from scaf­fold­ing while paint­ing at an at­tor­ney’s home in Gas­par­il­lo on Sat­ur­day.

Po­lice said Evans Joshua, of Buenos Ayres, Cap-de-Ville Road, was work­ing on his wife’s Toy­ota Pic­nic at about 4.05 pm. The car was parked on an in­cline in the yard when it rolled and pinned him to the ground.

The Unit­ed King­dom-based Privy Coun­cil will have the fi­nal say in an ap­peal over the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion’s re­fusal to re­veal the iden­ti­ty of the per­son who ac­cused a sec­ondary school teacher of sex­u­al mis­con­duct in­volv­ing a Form Two stu­dent.

A for­mer po­lice of­fi­cer turned de­fence at­tor­ney nar­row­ly es­caped with his life af­ter a gun­man opened fire on him as he ar­rived home on Mon­day night.

A man from Mara­cas/St Joseph, has been sen­tenced to 12 years in prison af­ter plead­ing guilty to stab­bing a neigh­bour to death. The neigh­bour had at­tacked the man’s wife and sons while in­tox­i­cat­ed.

Star­lite Group Lim­it­ed (SGL) has said cones in the carpark of its Diego Mar­tin phar­ma­cy are in­tend­ed to keep park­ing spaces avail­able for cus­tomers, par­tic­u­lar­ly el­der­ly peo­ple and those with lim­it­ed mo­bil­i­ty who need con­ve­nient ac­cess to the phar­ma­cy en­trance.

Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) has added 7,000 more seats as its ramps up ca­pac­i­ty for the fifth an­nu­al To­ba­go Car­ni­val.

The State has been or­dered to pay over $65,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to a long-stand­ing firearms deal­er, over a pro­tract­ed po­lice ex­er­cise in 2022 which re­sult­ed in his busi­ness be­ing closed for sev­er­al weeks.

Con­sti­tu­tion­al af­fairs ex­pert Pro­fes­sor Hamid Ghany is push­ing back against for­mer House Speak­er Bridgid An­nisette-George’s de­fence of her 2017 cast­ing votes, ar­gu­ing that her ex­pla­na­tion about pre­serv­ing the par­lia­men­tary sta­tus quo does not re­flect the po­lit­i­cal cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing those de­ci­sions.

Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) has added 7,000 more seats as it ramps up ca­pac­i­ty for the fifth an­nu­al To­ba­go Car­ni­val.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce (TT Cham­ber) and the Trinidad and To­ba­go Bev­er­age Al­co­hol Al­liance (TTBAA) are call­ing for a Joint Se­lect Com­mit­tee re­view of pro­posed leg­is­la­tion to change the le­gal age for pur­chas­ing al­co­hol.