To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine is push­ing back against sug­ges­tions that Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) should be shut­down or sold, ar­gu­ing that the air­line’s eco­nom­ic val­ue to the coun­try far out­weighs its fi­nan­cial chal­lenges.

An em­ploy­ee of the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) is among nine peo­ple de­tained in con­nec­tion with the van­dal­ism of four crit­i­cal wells in To­ba­go, an at­tack that se­vere­ly dis­rupt­ed the is­land’s wa­ter sup­ply.

Homi­cide in­ves­ti­ga­tors are await­ing le­gal ad­vice from the Of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions as they con­sid­er charges in the killing of Ce­dros crick­eter and sales mer­chan­dis­er Rashme Deoa­jit.

For­mer Ma­yaro/Rio Claro Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion (MR­CRC) chair­man Glen Ram and cur­rent Princes Town Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion (PTRC) chair­man Gowrie Roop­nar­ine have suf­fered a sec­ond de­feat in their le­gal bat­tle over a de­ci­sion to stop them from re­ceiv­ing their salaries for mi­nor lo­cal gov­ern­ment po­si­tions they held be­fore their ex­ec­u­tive roles.

A prop­er­ty de­vel­op­er has lost an ap­peal over a de­ci­sion by the En­vi­ron­men­tal Com­mis­sion to is­sue de­c­la­ra­tions against it and or­der it to pay com­pen­sa­tion for de­vel­op­ing a prop­er­ty in Las Cuevas with­out first ob­tain­ing a cer­tifi­cate of en­vi­ron­men­tal clear­ance (CEC).

The seren­i­ty of McKen­na Vale, Con­cor­dia, was shat­tered yes­ter­day fol­low­ing the dis­cov­ery of a body down a precipice.

Forty-four un­doc­u­ment­ed im­mi­grants were de­tained dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise by the South­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force on Sun­day.

Two po­lice of­fi­cers are fac­ing crim­i­nal charges, af­ter al­leged­ly ar­rest­ing a mo­torist and de­mand­ing cash in ex­change for his re­lease dur­ing an in­ci­dent along the Churchill Roo­sevelt High­way.

Fam­i­ly and friends are ral­ly­ing around the chil­dren of Ra­jku­mar Pope as they strug­gle to come to terms with his sud­den and vi­o­lent death, which came just hours af­ter he cel­e­brat­ed his daugh­ter’s com­ple­tion of the Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA).

Le­gal ac­tion is ad­vanc­ing against Paria Fu­el Trad­ing Com­pa­ny and Land and Ma­rine Con­tract­ing Ser­vices (LM­CS), de­spite the Gov­ern­ment’s $1 mil­lion ex gra­tia pay­ment to four fam­i­lies of the Paria div­ing tragedy, with some rel­a­tives pur­su­ing fur­ther com­pen­sa­tion.

Two po­lice of­fi­cers are fac­ing crim­i­nal charges af­ter al­leged­ly ar­rest­ing a mo­torist and de­mand­ing cash in ex­change for his re­lease dur­ing an in­ci­dent along the Churchill Roo­sevelt High­way.

Haiti’s gov­ern­ment an­nounced new aus­ter­i­ty mea­sures on Tues­day as the war in Iran dis­rupts crit­i­cal oil sup­plies and dri­ves up prices world­wide.