De­spite heavy rains, scores of peo­ple turned out to the launch of Car­ni­val 2025 on Sat­ur­day evening, ea­ger to join in the cel­e­bra­tion.

“Vi­o­lence against women is not in­evitable. It can and must be stopped.” These words from UN Women set the stage for Su­per­in­ten­dent Michelle Row­ley-Pow­der’s ur­gent call to ac­tion in the fight against gen­der-based vi­o­lence (GBV) in T&T.

The Down­town Own­ers and Mer­chants As­so­ci­a­tion (DO­MA) has is­sued a pub­lic plea to the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty and the Of­fice of the Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice, seek­ing the im­me­di­ate re­turn of 35 Port-of-Spain City Po­lice of­fi­cers who were trans­ferred to an undis­closed lo­ca­tion in south Trinidad.

If you buy US cur­ren­cy from a rel­a­tive vis­it­ing T&T, you may be in breach of the Ex­change and Con­trol Act. This is be­cause there must be au­tho­ri­sa­tion from the Cen­tral Bank to do so. The is­sue was raised dur­ing Fri­day’s Joint Se­lect Com­mit­tee on Fi­nance and Le­gal Af­fairs, which dis­cussed an in­quiry in­to the per­for­mance of the Fi­nan­cial In­tel­li­gence Unit of T&T (FIU) in re­la­tion to im­prov­ing an­ti-mon­ey laun­der­ing and com­bat­ing the fi­nanc­ing of ter­ror­ism (AML/CFT) com­pli­ance.

Traf­fic, ex­tor­tion and a short­age of forex were the most press­ing is­sues af­fect­ing Ch­agua­nas busi­ness op­er­a­tors in 2024.

The T&T Gov­ern­ment has been lob­by­ing De­mo­c­ra­t­ic and Re­pub­li­can law­mak­ers in a bid to pro­tect the Drag­on gas deal.

The much-an­tic­i­pat­ed mo­tion of no con­fi­dence against Siparia May­or Dood­nath Mayrhoo will not be heard this month, as UNC Mon De­sir coun­cil­lor Deryck Bowrin failed to pro­vide the re­quired sev­en days’ no­tice.

Protest ac­tion will con­tin­ue at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI), St Au­gus­tine Cam­pus, un­til salary ne­go­ti­a­tions are sat­is­fac­to­ri­ly set­tled.

As res­i­dents of Diego Mar­tin and Pe­tit Val­ley cleaned up yes­ter­day af­ter Sat­ur­day’s dev­as­tat­ing rains, which flood­ed homes and busi­ness­es with sev­er­al feet of wa­ter in some ar­eas, dark­en­ing skies sent many rush­ing to get sand­bags, fear­ing a sec­ond con­sec­u­tive day of flood­ing.

Al­though Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and her MPs stand to ben­e­fit from the Salaries Re­view Com­mis­sion (SRC)’s pro­posed salary in­creas­es for politi­cians, the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress is re­ject­ing the pay hike.

If the pro­posed pay hike by the Salaries Re­view Com­mis­sion’s (SRC) 120th re­port are im­ple­ment­ed, tax­pay­ers will face a sig­nif­i­cant fi­nan­cial bur­den while trade unions will in­ten­si­fy calls for fair wages.

Princes Town MP Bar­ry Padarath is re­new­ing his call for Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Mar­vin Gon­za­les to re­veal the salaries of se­nior man­agers at the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA).