For­mer fi­nance min­is­ter Colm Im­bert is urg­ing cau­tion over the re­cent surge in glob­al oil prices, trig­gered by es­ca­lat­ing ten­sions in­volv­ing the Unit­ed States and Is­rael with Iran. He warned that any short-term rev­enue gains for Trinidad and To­ba­go could be off­set by ris­ing im­port costs.

As the Gov­ern­ment pre­pares to hold talks with US en­er­gy gi­ant Chevron Cor­po­ra­tion on re­newed in­vest­ment in Trinidad and To­ba­go’s en­er­gy sec­tor, an­oth­er un­named Amer­i­can com­pa­ny has ex­pressed in­ter­est in the shut­tered Pointe-à-Pierre Re­fin­ery, En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal has re­vealed.

The Court of Ap­peal has ruled that leg­is­la­tion gov­ern­ing the de­struc­tion of fin­ger­print im­pres­sions af­ter an ac­cused per­son is ex­on­er­at­ed al­so ap­plies to cit­i­zens who are ar­rest­ed but nev­er charged.

A small busi­ness own­er in Care­nage has ob­tained an in­junc­tion pre­vent­ing the Diego Mar­tin Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion from de­mol­ish­ing his mi­ni mart, which the cor­po­ra­tion claims was con­struct­ed with­out plan­ning per­mis­sion.

A po­lice of­fi­cer has been freed of charges for al­leged­ly as­sault­ing a fel­low of­fi­cer in a dis­agree­ment over his cus­tomer ser­vice skills. 

Venezue­lan Am­bas­sador to Trinidad and To­ba­go, Al­varo Sanchez-Cordero, says his team is fac­ing a sig­nif­i­cant chal­lenge as it works to process thou­sands of con­sular reg­is­tra­tions re­quired by Venezue­lan na­tion­als seek­ing to reg­u­larise their sta­tus un­der the Gov­ern­ment’s Mi­grant Reg­is­tra­tion Frame­work (MRF).

Ven­dors at the Break­fast Shed (Femmes du Chalet) are re­new­ing calls for a meet­ing with of­fi­cials of the Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go (UDe­COTT), as their ad­vis­ers urge gov­ern­ment in­ter­ven­tion to re­solve the dis­pute.

The Phar­ma­cy Board of Trinidad and To­ba­go has elect­ed San­jay Mo­hammed as its new pres­i­dent, mark­ing the next chap­ter in a jour­ney that be­gan far from board­rooms and pro­fes­sion­al coun­cils.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce launched the sec­ond Cat­a­lyst SME Con­fer­ence at its head­quar­ters in West­moor­ings on Wednes­day.

Min­is­ter of Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion, Eli Za­k­our, held dis­cus­sions with Bar­ba­dos Min­is­ter of Tourism and In­ter­na­tion­al Trans­port, Ian Good­ing-Edghill, on re­gion­al air con­nec­tiv­i­ty and avi­a­tion co­op­er­a­tion.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s in­ter­im head coach of the na­tion­al se­nior men’s team, Derek King, has named his squad for this coun­try’s friend­ly in­ter­na­tion­al against Bo­livia on March 15. The squad en­com­pass­es a mix­ture of ex­pe­ri­enced and young play­ers. It will be King’s first test since Dwight Yorke left the job last week.

The Court of Ap­peal has raised the pos­si­bil­i­ty that cit­i­zens could even­tu­al­ly pur­sue law­suits against oth­er in­di­vid­u­als for breach­es of pri­va­cy, even as it ruled that such claims are not cur­rent­ly recog­nised un­der Trinidad and To­ba­go law.