The head of the An­ti-Kid­nap­ping Unit (AKU) is warn­ing busi­ness own­ers to watch the friends that they keep and to al­so re­frain from re­veal­ing their every move­ment on so­cial me­dia.

As in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue in­to the shoot­ing in­ci­dent in Guapo that claimed the lives of a po­lice of­fi­cer and a civil­ian, there is a call for crim­i­nals to put down their guns. It came from Po­lice So­cial and Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent ASP Gideon Dick­son, who al­so lament­ed that crim­i­nals are be­com­ing more brazen, even when con­front­ed by po­lice of­fi­cers.

Works and Trans­port Min­is­ter Ro­han Sinanan says the ball is in the court of the Sea­men and Wa­ter­front Work­ers Trade Union (SWW­TU) as it re­lates to end­ing the cur­rent im­passe at the Port of Port-of-Spain. 

Han­nah Muthu­ra’s fam­i­ly is claim­ing, through their at­tor­ney Stef­fon Boodooram, that their moth­er, Alana, was raped while in cus­tody for her daugh­ter’s mur­der at the Women’s Prison, Gold­en Grove, Arou­ca.

The Na­tion­al Pe­tro­le­um Mar­ket­ing Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (NP) is shut­ting down al­le­ga­tions against the com­pa­ny by both the Oil­field Work­ers Trade Union (OW­TU) and the Trinidad and To­ba­go Pe­tro­le­um Deal­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (PDA).

Res­i­dents of cen­tral and south Trinidad will need to mon­i­tor their wa­ter us­age close­ly next week as De­sal­cott has an­nounced a shut­down of its Point Lisas De­sali­na­tion Plant from next Mon­day un­til No­vem­ber 17.

Min­is­ter of Labour Stephen Mc Clashie says his team is look­ing in­to is­sues sur­round­ing TCL re­tirees, who protest­ed for a fourth straight day yes­ter­day. The re­tirees, along with ac­tive and ca­su­al work­ers rep­re­sent­ed by the Oil­field Work­ers’ Trade Union, re­turned to the gates along the South­ern Main Road at 6 am.

With­in the 15 con­stituen­cies of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) which will sub­mit their 2025 gen­er­al elec­tion nom­i­nees to the par­ty from to­day, are chal­lengers to in­cum­bent MPs in ar­eas from La Brea and St Ann’s East to To­co/San­gre Grande and Tu­na­puna.

The Laven­tille West Women’s League has of­fi­cial­ly rat­i­fied its de­ci­sion to se­lect Port-of-Spain City Cor­po­ra­tion Al­der­man Ka­reem Mar­celle as its nom­i­nee to be screened for the up­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tion.

Po­lit­i­cal sci­en­tist Dr Bish­nu Ra­goonath be­lieves that the out­come of the re­cent Unit­ed States elec­tion, which saw Don­ald Trump de­clared the 47th Pres­i­dent, will not in­flu­ence when Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley calls the next gen­er­al elec­tion in T&T.

Po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst Derek Ram­samooj, in his analy­sis of the out­come of the re­cent Unit­ed States pres­i­den­tial elec­tion, which saw Don­ald Trump win a land­slide vic­to­ry in swing states, says the Re­pub­li­can’s sec­ond term in of­fice will ush­er in a new pe­ri­od in pol­i­tics.

The To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly says the Min­istry of En­er­gy has tak­en re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for the fi­nal dis­pos­al of the pits of bunker fu­el stored at the Stud­ley Park dump.