As the height of the rainy sea­son ap­proach­es next month, Wood­land res­i­dents have re­newed their calls for ur­gent ac­tion to ad­dress per­sis­tent flood­ing in the Oropouche Drainage Basin.

The To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) may have to pay more than $3 mil­lion to 13 con­tract work­ers it fired af­ter the 2021 elec­tions. That’s the fall­out of an In­dus­tri­al Court rul­ing de­liv­ered since April 30, which found the ter­mi­na­tions were un­fair, un­law­ful, and like­ly po­lit­i­cal­ly mo­ti­vat­ed.

Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe is call­ing on cor­po­rate Trinidad and To­ba­go to in­tro­duce sports and recre­ation pro­grammes for em­ploy­ees as a way to pro­mote a health­i­er na­tion.

The In­ter-Amer­i­can Com­mis­sion on Hu­man Rights (IACHR) is ex­press­ing con­cern over the re­cent de­ci­sion of the Court of Ap­peal in Trinidad and To­ba­go re­in­stat­ing le­gal pro­vi­sions that crim­i­nalise con­sen­su­al sex­u­al re­la­tions be­tween adults of the same sex.

High Court Judge Jus­tice Frank Seep­er­sad has called for a com­pre­hen­sive re­view of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s adop­tion and fos­ter care laws, urg­ing ac­tion to pro­tect vul­ner­a­ble chil­dren and sup­port all forms of par­ent­ing.

More than two dozen schools start­ed over a decade ago by the Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship gov­ern­ment re­main aban­doned—van­dalised, with dam­aged walls, miss­ing roofs, and over­grown com­pounds where an­i­mals graze and, in some cas­es, mar­i­jua­na is cul­ti­vat­ed.

The Guyana Ama­zon War­riors will host the Exxon­Mo­bil Guyana Glob­al Su­per League (GSL), sched­uled to take place from Ju­ly 10 to 18 at the icon­ic Prov­i­dence Sta­di­um.

Pho­to: In­dia’s Vi­rat Kohli ges­tures to a mem­ber of a crowd dur­ing play on the first day of the fourth crick­et test be­tween Aus­tralia and In­dia at the Mel­bourne Crick­et Ground, Mel­bourne, Aus­tralia, on Dec. 26, 2024. (AP Pho­to/Asan­ka Bren­don Rat­nayake, File)

U.S. and Chi­nese of­fi­cials said Mon­day they had reached a deal to roll back most of their re­cent tar­iffs and call a 90-day truce in their trade war for more talks on re­solv­ing their trade dis­putes.

For­mer Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PolSC) mem­ber Mar­tin George says the han­dling of the in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to sus­pend­ed Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher may trig­ger a law­suit.

A 5.5-mag­ni­tude earth shook parts of Trinidad last night, send­ing so­cial me­dia in­to a fren­zy.

Crim­i­nol­o­gist Pro­fes­sor Ramesh De­osaran be­lieves that the sack­ing of Arthur Bar­ring­ton as leader of the Strate­gic Ser­vices Agency (SSA) needs to be ex­plained to the pub­lic by the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) Gov­ern­ment.