De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge has clar­i­fied his re­cent con­tro­ver­sial re­marks re­gard­ing the 2014 mur­der of spe­cial pros­e­cu­tor Dana See­ta­hal.

De­fence Min­is­ter and To­co/San­gre Grande Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment Wayne Sturge has con­firmed that he will not at­tend the fu­ner­al of San­gre Grande busi­ness­man Dan­ny Guer­ra to­day.

A busi­ness­man has won his law­suit against Re­pub­lic Bank Ltd over a US$30,000 cred­it card re­bate for ex­pens­es in­curred dur­ing a med­ical emer­gency abroad.

Warns Quar­ry Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed, a sub­sidiary of the Warn­er Group found­ed by Al­lan Warn­er, has been hit with 16 counts of mon­ey laun­der­ing.

Of­fi­cers from the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice’s (TTPS) Home In­va­sion Team have iden­ti­fied the sus­pect killed fol­low­ing a home in­va­sion in Val­sayn on Mon­day and ar­rest­ed a sec­ond teenage sus­pect.

A le­gal dis­pute be­tween Sen­a­tors Dr Amery Browne and Phillip Ed­ward Alexan­der over al­leged­ly defam­a­to­ry com­ments ap­pears head­ed for the courts.

Stu­dents of Ari­ma Girls’ RC School ex­plored ca­reer paths dur­ing a school ca­reer day on March 6, dur­ing a vis­it from Guardian Me­dia jour­nal­ists Ryan Ba­choo and Jean-Marc Ram­per­sad.

Trans­port Com­mis­sion­er Clive Clarke has an­nounced sweep­ing re­forms aimed at mod­ernising dri­ver test­ing, reg­u­lat­ing dri­ving schools, and strength­en­ing over­sight of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s li­cens­ing sys­tem, amid grow­ing con­cerns over the ef­fi­cien­cy and in­tegri­ty of the na­tion’s traf­fic man­age­ment frame­work.

Scores of peo­ple, in­clud­ing for­mer CEPEP work­ers, turned out for the sec­ond phase of a Gov­ern­ment re­cruit­ment dri­ve in Cou­va on yes­ter­day, hop­ing to se­cure steady em­ploy­ment af­ter months—and in some cas­es years—with­out sta­ble jobs.

Long-stand­ing plumb­ing prob­lems at the Debe cam­pus of the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) are set to be per­ma­nent­ly re­solved ahead of its an­tic­i­pat­ed Au­gust open­ing, with of­fi­cials con­firm­ing that four fac­ul­ties—in­clud­ing law and an ex­pand­ed med­i­cine pro­gramme—will be housed at the site when it be­comes op­er­a­tional.

More than 250 sec­ondary school stu­dents learned prac­ti­cal mon­ey-man­age­ment skills aimed at help­ing them make smarter fi­nan­cial de­ci­sions in the fu­ture, dur­ing fi­nan­cial lit­er­a­cy ses­sions host­ed by the Bankers As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (BATT).

Is­rael killed an­oth­er top Iran­ian of­fi­cial — the in­tel­li­gence min­is­ter — in its cam­paign against the Is­lam­ic Re­pub­lic’s lead­er­ship and re­port­ed­ly at­tacked an Iran­ian off­shore nat­ur­al gas field Wednes­day amid the war’s es­ca­lat­ing pres­sure on the re­gion’s eco­nom­ic lifeblood: en­er­gy.