Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine yes­ter­day ex­pressed shock over the dis­ap­pear­ance of tod­dler An­ge­lo To­bias, say­ing the na­tion must do more to pro­tect chil­dren.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine says the con­struc­tion of a 200-room ho­tel and re­sort at Rocky Point, To­ba­go, will help im­prove the qual­i­ty of rooms on the is­land.

As the search con­tin­ues for miss­ing two-year-old An­ge­lo To­bias, To­ba­go po­lice are now al­so prob­ing the death of a three-month-old ba­by.

The grand­fa­ther of 23-month-old Aki­ni Kafi, who was killed along with his fa­ther and fam­i­ly friend in a triple shoot­ing in Bel­mont, says on­ly di­vine in­ter­ven­tion can help Trinidad and To­ba­go over­come its crime sit­u­a­tion.

The Low­er House has passed ma­jor leg­is­la­tion al­low­ing peo­ple with mi­nor crim­i­nal con­vic­tions to have their records ex­punged af­ter a pe­ri­od of good be­hav­iour, ef­fec­tive­ly giv­ing them a clean slate.

A Mor­vant man was ar­rest­ed af­ter al­leged­ly open­ing fire on an­oth­er man out­side a bar on Ari­api­ta Av­enue be­fore lead­ing po­lice on a chase and shoot-out across Port-of-Spain in the ear­ly hours of Wednes­day morn­ing.

To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA)Tourism, An­tiq­ui­ties and Cre­ative In­dus­tries Sec­re­tary Zor­isha Hack­ett says the key to the is­land’s tourism suc­cess lies in build­ing a sol­id plan.

De­clar­ing that Trinidad and To­ba­go is on the verge of an “en­er­gy and eco­nom­ic boom,” the Oil­fields Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU) signed a train­ing agree­ment with man­age­ment con­sult­ing firm Col­lec­tive En­er­gies Ltd (CENER­GY) yes­ter­day to pre­pare work­ers for the pro­posed restart of the Petrotrin re­fin­ery and wider ex­pan­sion in the en­er­gy sec­tor.

Mur­der and gang-re­lat­ed charges against sev­en men and a woman have been dis­missed over de­lays in pros­e­cut­ing the case. 

A 21-year-old man from Erin has been sen­tenced to 18 years in prison af­ter ad­mit­ting to mur­der­ing a Venezue­lan mi­grant af­ter com­mit­ting a rob­bery in 2022.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) has set­tled out­stand­ing Cost of Liv­ing Al­lowance (CO­LA) pay­ments with trade unions rep­re­sent­ing work­ers at the State util­i­ty com­pa­ny.

A for­mer man­ag­er of the Is­land Club Group of Com­pa­nies has been freed of fraud due to de­lays in pros­e­cut­ing him.