Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der says the Gov­ern­ment will be­gin is­su­ing mi­grant reg­is­tra­tion cards from No­vem­ber 1.

South-West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (SWRHA) chair­man Anil Go­sine and med­ical di­rec­tor Dr Anand Cha­toor­goon have ten­dered their res­ig­na­tions.

A young moth­er fears she may soon be un­able to af­ford milk for her child, af­ter she and 123 oth­er dai­ly-paid work­ers were laid off by the South-West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (SWRHA).

Lawyers rep­re­sent­ing busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed, his wife Genevieve and her aunt Star Sab­ga are still seek­ing the dis­clo­sure of an unedit­ed copy of an in­ter­cept­ed tele­phone call that led to them be­ing held on Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) dur­ing the re­cent­ly com­plet­ed State of Emer­gency (SoE).

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has not con­firmed whether the Gov­ern­ment is on track to meet its month-end dead­line for the con­struc­tion of ten ad­di­tion­al po­lice posts.

The Prison Of­fi­cers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (POA) has wel­comed a $165 mil­lion over­time al­lo­ca­tion in the 2027 Bud­get, but says chron­ic un­der­in­vest­ment con­tin­ues to ham­per the op­er­a­tions of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Prison Ser­vice.

Fish­er­man Sel­wyn Sood­een was chopped to death dur­ing an al­ter­ca­tion with an­oth­er fish­er­man at the Guayagua­yare Fish­ing Port on Sun­day.

The dri­ver, a Lam­beau res­i­dent who lives ap­prox­i­mate­ly 200 me­tres away, sur­vived the ter­ri­fy­ing or­deal, but re­mains hos­pi­talised in sta­ble con­di­tion.

As in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue in­to the mur­ders of Rosan­na Ram­lal and her 17-year-old daugh­ter, Ali­na, de­tec­tives in the Re­gion II Homi­cide Bu­reau say they are con­sid­er­ing all pos­si­bil­i­ties. As of yes­ter­day, no ar­rests had been made and in­ves­ti­ga­tors had not es­tab­lished a mo­tive.

Sev­er­al state-con­trolled com­pa­nies have with­drawn their sup­port for this year’s Di­vali Na­gar, with the Na­tion­al Coun­cil of In­di­an Cul­ture (NCIC) ap­peal­ing to the Gov­ern­ment for fi­nan­cial as­sis­tance to stage the an­nu­al cel­e­bra­tions.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) is ap­peal­ing to the pub­lic for as­sis­tance in iden­ti­fy­ing sev­en bod­ies found in the North Cen­tral Di­vi­sion be­tween Oc­to­ber 2021 and March 2026.

Ris­ing fu­el costs, dis­con­tent with the state of schools, de­clin­ing pub­lic ser­vices and a hous­ing cri­sis have cre­at­ed per­fect­ly stormy weath­er for an au­tumn of protests in Eu­rope.