The labour move­ment is prepar­ing to take to the streets this week­end in ma­jor protests, as it calls on the Gov­ern­ment to present a more favourable wage of­fer and abol­ish the four per cent wage cap im­posed on pub­lic ser­vants.

Ch­agua­nas West MP Di­nesh Ram­bal­ly is call­ing on the pop­u­la­tion to take a stand against the Prime Min­is­ter’s de­ci­sion to ac­cept the Salaries Re­view Com­mis­sion’s pro­posed in­creas­es for top pub­lic of­fi­cials.

Pan Trin­ba­go an­nounced the top 25 fi­nal­ists for the Sin­gle Pan Fi­nals on Sat­ur­day, De­cem­ber 14, 2024, at Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, Port of Spain. Forty-two Sin­gle Pan Steel­bands com­pet­ed in re­gion­al pre­lim­i­nar­ies over eight days. Judges se­lect­ed the fi­nal­ists based on their per­for­mances.

South Ko­re­an Pres­i­dent Yoon Suk Yeol’s gov­ern­ment ear­ly Wednes­day lift­ed the mar­tial law he im­posed dur­ing a tense night of po­lit­i­cal dra­ma in which troops sur­round­ed par­lia­ment and law­mak­ers vot­ed to re­ject mil­i­tary rule.

One po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst says the se­lec­tion of Ka­reem Mar­celle as the can­di­date for Laven­tille West, is a clear in­di­ca­tion that the Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) is will­ing to se­lect a can­di­date who can con­nect with a younger age de­mo­graph­ic.

The mu­ti­lat­ed body of an uniden­ti­fied man was found at Train­line, Quinam Road, Siparia, on Mon­day.

The man­ag­ing di­rec­tor of the In­ter­na­tion­al Mon­e­tary Fund (IMF), Kristali­na Georgie­va, said Tues­day that cli­mate change pos­es an acute threat to the Caribbean and that the costs for re­silience build­ing in the re­gion is es­ti­mat­ed at a stag­ger­ing US$100 bil­lion over the next two decades.

A Yel­low Lev­el Haz­ardous Seas Alert was is­sued by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) this morn­ing with im­me­di­ate ef­fect, un­til 4 pm Thurs­day 5th De­cem­ber. 

Be­lize's Min­istry of Im­mi­gra­tion has dis­missed me­dia re­ports of var­i­ous scan­dals al­leged­ly in­volv­ing pub­lic of­fi­cers, say­ing it is col­lab­o­rat­ing with the Be­lize Po­lice De­part­ment and the Of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP).

Sau­di Ara­bia’s grow­ing in­flu­ence and mas­sive spend­ing in glob­al sports ahead of be­ing con­firmed by FI­FA as the 2034 World Cup host was de­tailed on Mon­day in a re­port that cit­ed risks to good gov­er­nance off the field.

A ma­chine gun was among mil­lions of dol­lars’ worth of nar­cotics seized by po­lice in To­ba­go, while the con­tra­band was be­ing smug­gled in­to the is­land last night.

Cur­rent Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Laven­tille East/ Mor­vant, Adri­an Leonce MP, has re­vealed that per­son­al is­sues af­fect­ing him and his fam­i­ly caused his with­draw­al from yes­ter­day's screen­ing of can­di­dates for the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM).