Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has de­scribed the theft of pow­er ca­bles at four Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) wells in To­ba­go as “bor­der­line do­mes­tic ter­ror­ism.”

The cur­rent im­passe be­tween the Gov­ern­ment and nurs­es, re­sult­ing in a sick­out over the week­end, is ex­pect­ed to get worse as the week pro­gress­es.

Port-of-Spain res­i­dents woke up to the sounds of hymns and sight of wav­ing palms yes­ter­day, as dozens of Catholics and An­gli­cans joined to­geth­er in a dis­play of re­li­gious sol­i­dar­i­ty to pray for the cap­i­tal city.

Amid on­go­ing glob­al con­flicts, Arch­bish­op Ja­son Gor­don says the same choice be­tween war and peace wit­nessed in the Pas­sion of Je­sus Christ con­tin­ues to con­front peo­ple to­day, with voic­es call­ing for peace over­shad­owed by vi­o­lence in the Mid­dle East and oth­er re­gions.

In cel­e­bra­tion of Spir­i­tu­al Shouter Bap­tist Lib­er­a­tion Day, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is prais­ing the Bap­tist com­mu­ni­ty for their con­tri­bu­tion to na­tion­al de­vel­op­ment, as she asks them to pray for peace and uni­ty for Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has dis­missed claims by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar that the for­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) ad­min­is­tra­tion failed to sup­port the Spir­i­tu­al/Shouter Bap­tist com­mu­ni­ty, de­clar­ing that “talk is cheap.”

In com­mem­o­ra­tion of Spir­i­tu­al Shouter Bap­tist Lib­er­a­tion Day, the Of­fice of the Pres­i­dent host­ed its sec­ond an­nu­al Spir­i­tu­al Shouter Bap­tist Lib­er­a­tion Day Ex­hi­bi­tion from March 23 to 25 at the Pres­i­dent’s House.

Move­ment for So­cial Jus­tice leader David Ab­du­lah has launched a blis­ter­ing at­tack on the for­eign pol­i­cy di­rec­tion of the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress Gov­ern­ment, ac­cus­ing it of un­der­min­ing re­gion­al uni­ty, aban­don­ing long-stand­ing diplo­mat­ic po­si­tions and “hand­ing over” Trinidad and To­ba­go’s sov­er­eign­ty to the Unit­ed States.

Caribbean Air­lines Ltd’s (CAL) board is stay­ing silent on a pro­posed fu­el sur­charge and broad­er bailout plans, even as for­mer fi­nance of­fi­cial Bri­an Man­ning warns the sit­u­a­tion could wors­en and have se­ri­ous eco­nom­ic fall­out.

To­ba­go Ho­tel and Tourism As­so­ci­a­tion (TH­TA) head Regi­nald MacLean be­lieves the new ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port in Crown Point should be opened as soon as pos­si­ble.

A man from Rousil­lac has been or­dered to pay al­most $300,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to a pub­lic health in­spec­tor for de­fam­ing him in a se­ries of so­cial me­dia posts.

A home­less man, who ad­mit­ted to killing a fel­low street dweller while at­tempt­ing to rob him of his co­caine stash, has been sen­tenced to a lit­tle over 16 years in prison.