An­tigua and Bar­bu­da Prime Min­is­ter Gas­ton Browne has warned that while Trinidad and To­ba­go’s re­cent in­crease in im­port du­ties on cer­tain Cari­com prod­ucts may be ac­cept­able for health rea­sons, any wider ap­pli­ca­tion could vi­o­late the Treaty of Ch­aguara­mas. Browne al­so cau­tioned that, as the “su­per­mar­ket of the Caribbean,” T&T could face a “boomerang ef­fect” if the pol­i­cy is mis­han­dled.

Res­i­dents of sea­side com­mu­ni­ties along Trinidad’s east coast say re­cent re­ports of US naval ves­sels op­er­at­ing near­by have sparked con­cern, with lo­cal fish­er­folk hop­ing that any mil­i­tary ac­tiv­i­ty re­mains far from their homes.

Mi­nor­i­ty Leader Kelvon Mor­ris is call­ing for clear an­swers from Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine as the Prime Min­is­ter makes her first of­fi­cial vis­it to To­ba­go with sev­er­al Cab­i­net mem­bers.

The Di­rec­tor of the Pro­gramme for Up­grad­ing Roads Ef­fi­cien­cy (PURE), Hay­den Phillip, along with eight oth­er of­fi­cials, have been placed on ad­min­is­tra­tive leave ef­fec­tive yes­ter­day.

San Fer­nan­do May­or Robert Par­ris has con­firmed that street vend­ing on High Street will not be per­mit­ted this Christ­mas, end­ing a long-stand­ing hol­i­day tra­di­tion in the city cen­tre.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo has ap­proved the Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer (CPO) to pro­ceed with pro­posed ten per cent wage ne­go­ti­a­tions for pub­lic ser­vants. How­ev­er, Tan­coo not­ed that the CPO still has “a few pre­req­ui­sites” to com­plete be­fore face-to-face ne­go­ti­a­tions with the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) can be­gin.

Pres­i­dent of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Na­tion­al Coun­cil of Par­ent Teacher As­so­ci­a­tions Inc. (NPTA), Wal­ter Stew­art, says vi­o­lence among stu­dents con­tin­ues to oc­cur even at schools with po­lice of­fi­cers sta­tioned on the com­pound.

Sev­er­al de­tainees held un­der the State of Emer­gency (SoE) at the East­ern Cor­rec­tion­al and Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre (ECRC) in Arou­ca have em­barked on a peace­ful hunger strike, call­ing on Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der to re­voke the Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders for per­sons who have not been in­ves­ti­gat­ed or charged af­ter months in cus­tody.

A qui­et Rio Claro com­mu­ni­ty was left in shock af­ter a res­i­dent was shot dead in broad day­light yes­ter­day.

Va­len­cia Po­lice are con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to a chop­ping in­ci­dent that oc­curred at a pig farm on Sat­ur­day.

Mem­bers of the pub­lic were left dis­ap­point­ed yes­ter­day as dri­ving per­mit ser­vices at the Princes Town Li­cens­ing Of­fice were sus­pend­ed due to sew­er is­sues af­fect­ing the fa­cil­i­ty.

A sol­dier has chal­lenged a de­ci­sion of a High Court judge to re­ject his law­suit claim­ing that he was un­fair­ly by­passed for pro­mo­tion.