May­or of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment-con­trolled Ari­ma Cor­po­ra­tion, Bal­li­ram Ma­haraj, says he has done noth­ing wrong in at­tend­ing last Sat­ur­day’s Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress fundrais­er func­tion—and he’s look­ing for­ward to his re­tire­ment from busi­ness and spend­ing time with his grand­chil­dren.

Se­nior po­lice of­fi­cials in the Port-of-Spain Di­vi­sion have vowed not to let Sun­day’s shoot­ing along Ari­api­ta Av­enue in Wood­brook off­set the 66 per cent de­cline in homi­cides they have man­aged to record be­tween Jan­u­ary 1 to present.

There has been a no­tice­able slow­down in the num­ber of shop­pers and ac­tiv­i­ty in shop­ping ar­eas across down­town Port-of-Spain, ac­cord­ing to ven­dors and busi­nes­sown­ers in the cap­i­tal city.

Trans­port and In­dus­tri­al Work­ers Union (TI­WU) pres­i­dent Shawn Roberts is call­ing on Gov­ern­ment to ex­pe­dite wage dis­cus­sions with the union, as he says there is an ur­gent need to re­view the salaries of em­ploy­ees.

Health Min­is­ter Lack­ram Bo­doe is avoid­ing di­rect an­swers on whether some re­gion­al health au­thor­i­ty (RHA) work­ers, now protest­ing their ex­clu­sion from the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion’s (PSA) ten per cent wage in­crease deal, will re­ceive back­pay be­fore Christ­mas.

A man has been sen­tenced to a lit­tle over three years in prison af­ter ad­mit­ting to sex­u­al­ly as­sault­ing a woman dur­ing a home in­va­sion in 2017.

A for­mer em­ploy­ee of ANSA Bank at the cen­tre of a $30 mil­lion fraud­u­lent loan con­spir­a­cy, which in­volves a group of for­eign used car deal­ers, has been or­dered to re­pay more than half the mon­ey the bank was de­fraud­ed of.

A wide cross sec­tion of cit­i­zens, in­clud­ing Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) per­son­al­i­ties and top mem­bers of oth­er po­lit­i­cal par­ties, are ex­pect­ed to at­tend this af­ter­noon’s fu­ner­al of PNM and ONR foun­da­tion mem­ber Fer­di­nand “Fer­die” Fer­reira.

Search op­er­a­tions are con­tin­u­ing for 49-year-old Paul Cam­po, who went miss­ing dur­ing a hunt­ing ex­pe­di­tion in the Guayagua­yare for­est on Sat­ur­day.

The Pan Amer­i­can Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion (PA­HO) said Mon­day it has launched the new HEARTS Qual­i­ty Frame­work, which it says coun­tries can use im­me­di­ate­ly to en­hance hy­per­ten­sion and car­dio­vas­cu­lar risk man­age­ment, pre­vent heart at­tacks and strokes, and de­liv­er bet­ter care through pri­ma­ry health care clos­er to peo­ple’s homes.

The Venezue­lan Gov­ern­ment has is­sued a state­ment de­nounc­ing the di­rect par­tic­i­pa­tion of the Gov­ern­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go in col­lu­sion with the US ad­min­is­tra­tion, call­ing it an act of "pira­cy" that re­sult­ed in the theft of Venezue­lan oil.

Do­mini­ca’s Prime Min­is­ter Roo­sevelt Sker­rit said Mon­day that his coun­try is pre­pared to act as a me­di­a­tor in the cur­rent con­flict be­tween the Unit­ed States and Venezuela, re­it­er­at­ing that the Caribbean re­gion should al­ways be a zone of peace.