Sec­re­tary of Tourism Zor­isha Hack­ett has con­firmed that the ab­sence of a To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) jazz event for East­er was a de­lib­er­ate de­ci­sion.

Chair­man of the South West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (SWRHA), Anil Go­sine, is seek­ing to re­as­sure the pub­lic that con­tin­gency mea­sures are in place to pro­tect pa­tient care, as nurs­es pre­pare for a planned protest on Fri­day.

The Cari­com Repa­ra­tions Com­mis­sion (CRC) has re­spond­ed sharply to com­ments made by Re­form UK spokesman Zia Yusuf re­gard­ing slav­ery repa­ra­tions.

So­ca star Patrice Roberts has been or­dered to pay US$25,104.12 in com­pen­sa­tion to a Cana­di­an en­ter­tain­ment com­pa­ny for ser­vices it pro­vid­ed while briefly man­ag­ing her ca­reer.

Chief Med­ical Of­fi­cer Dr Roshan Paras­ram has been di­rect­ed to es­tab­lish a func­tion­al sys­tem for pub­lic health in­spec­tors to re­ceive over­time pay­ments for spe­cialised ser­vices they pro­vide dur­ing and af­ter their nor­mal work­ing hours. 

With Point Fortin Bor­ough Day cel­e­bra­tions set to be­gin this week­end, Point Fortin Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment Ernesto Ke­sar is urg­ing stake­hold­ers to set aside po­lit­i­cal dif­fer­ences as he re­spond­ed to fund­ing con­cerns raised by the Point Fortin Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion.

The To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) is look­ing to mon­e­tise goat rac­ing on the is­land by le­gal­is­ing bet­ting on the sport.

Ex­ec­u­tive chair­man of the ANSA McAL Group, Dr A Nor­man Sab­ga, will re­ceive the Amer­i­can Foun­da­tion for the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies’ Lead­er­ship Award, while the ANSA McAL Group will re­ceive the Cor­po­rate Lead­er­ship Award at the foun­da­tion’s 29th an­nu­al “The Lega­cy Con­tin­ues” Schol­ar­ship Gala on April 17 in New York City.

The Unit­ed States Gov­ern­ment, through the US Em­bassy in Port-of-Spain and the US South­ern Com­mand (SOUTH­COM), has do­nat­ed 8,640 meals ready-to-eat (MREs) to the Trinidad and To­ba­go De­fence Force (TTDF).

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the rob­bery of a pop­u­lar San Fer­nan­do restau­rant and bar in which ban­dits made off with al­co­hol and cig­a­rettes.

Sev­er­al po­lice of­fi­cers were among those in­jured in a two-ve­hi­cle col­li­sion in San Fer­nan­do on Mon­day night.

The East­er hol­i­day week­end con­tin­ued with more road traf­fic ac­ci­dents as a 72-year-old man was left in in­ten­sive care fol­low­ing a crash along the Solomon Ho­choy High­way on Sun­day night.