The UN Refugee Agency will per­ma­nent­ly close its na­tion­al of­fice in Trinidad and To­ba­go on Au­gust 31 due to glob­al fund­ing short­falls.

Over 360 Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (Cepep) con­tracts were re­newed for a pe­ri­od of three years from April 14-April 24, be­fore the Gen­er­al Elec­tion, al­though there was no Cab­i­net ap­proval for this, claims Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath.

The pro­mot­er of the flopped Adid­ja “Vy­bz Kar­tel” Palmer con­cert says he is now fear­ful for his life.

THA Mi­nor­i­ty Leader Kelvon Mor­ris is call­ing on To­bag­o­ni­ans to join him this morn­ing out­side the Di­vi­sion of Health as he de­mands the im­me­di­ate res­ig­na­tion of Sec­re­tary of Health Dr Faith Breb­nor.

A month af­ter re­ceiv­ing a bone mar­row trans­plant in Colom­bia, can­cer sur­vivor Chloe Ram­nar­ine is prepar­ing to re­turn to T&T. Her moth­er, Thilly­er Ram­nar­ine, said Chloe is ex­pect­ed to leave Colom­bia at 6 pm to­day.

The T&T Red Cross So­ci­ety (TTRCS) is push­ing back against find­ings in a De­cem­ber mis­sion re­port by the In­ter­na­tion­al Fed­er­a­tion of Red Cross and Red Cres­cent So­ci­eties (IFRC), say­ing the doc­u­ment lacks con­text and re­lies too heav­i­ly on anec­do­tal claims.

The fam­i­lies of at least two of the four divers, who per­ished in a tragedy at Paria Fu­el Trad­ing Com­pa­ny’s Pointe-a-Pierre fa­cil­i­ty in 2022, have brought claims against their for­mer em­ploy­er un­der the Work­men’s Com­pen­sa­tion Act. 

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion’s (TTUTA) To­ba­go of­fi­cer Bran­don Roberts says ed­u­ca­tion promis­es made dur­ing the last elec­tion have dis­ap­peared and teach­ers are in­creas­ing­ly frus­trat­ed.

T&T Scrap Iron Deal­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent Al­lan Fer­gu­son is re­new­ing calls for the Gov­ern­ment to sup­port a lo­cal ship-break­ing ini­tia­tive that promis­es to rid na­tion­al wa­ters of derelict and leak­ing ves­sels for just $1.

A Bagatelle, Diego Mar­tin man is miss­ing af­ter re­port­ed­ly falling from the edge of a cliff in the ear­ly hours of yes­ter­day morn­ing.

A 25-year-old man from Diego Mar­tin died on Wednes­day af­ter­noon, af­ter crash­ing along the north­bound lane of the Diego Mar­tin High­way.

Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um has clamped a hy­dro­car­bon leak near the Moru­ga Sec­ondary School that trig­gered air qual­i­ty test­ing and emer­gency re­sponse mea­sures late last month.