Al­le­ga­tions of deep-root­ed cor­rup­tion with­in the Un­em­ploy­ment Re­lief Pro­gramme (URP) have sparked po­lit­i­cal con­tro­ver­sy. This, af­ter Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Khadi­jah Ameen ac­cused the for­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) ad­min­is­tra­tion of turn­ing the ini­tia­tive in­to a “feed­ing fren­zy” for friends, fam­i­ly mem­bers, and fi­nanciers.

Min­is­ter of Labour, Small and Mi­cro En­ter­prise De­vel­op­ment Leroy Bap­tiste says any work­er who los­es his or her job is a con­cern to him.

Farm­ers on the Re­trench Es­tate in San Fer­nan­do are call­ing for a for­mal in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to what they de­scribe as land grab­bing by a pri­vate con­trac­tor al­leged­ly linked to a for­mer gov­ern­ment min­is­ter.

The Min­istry of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment has re­ject­ed claims that any project plans have stalled due to a lack of prop­er­ty tax funds.

Ram­pag­ing bi­son are de­stroy­ing crops and threat­en­ing liveli­hoods in Berridge Trace, South Oropouche, where a group of farm­ers say they are los­ing thou­sands of dol­lars in pro­duce.

De­spite top­ping the na­tion in the Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) and earn­ing a place at her first-choice school, Na­pari­ma Girls’ High, Sand­hya Di­vya Ma­haraj is call­ing for the abo­li­tion of the ex­am she just con­quered.

While the re­sults of the Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) ex­am­i­na­tions have been out for well over a week now, the ex­cite­ment is still very much in the air for thou­sands of stu­dents, es­pe­cial­ly those still beam­ing with ex­cite­ment from their ex­cel­lent re­sults.

As this coun­try con­tin­ues to grap­ple with crime, Cana­da’s High Com­mis­sion­er to T&T, Michael Callan, is re­it­er­at­ing his coun­try’s com­mit­ment to strength­en­ing se­cu­ri­ty ties.

Even now, as he en­dures the pain of stage four Hodgkin’s Lym­phoma, 19-year-old Kristo­pher Mo­hamed is think­ing about oth­ers.

In a nar­row pas­sage be­tween two build­ings on High Street, San Fer­nan­do, 42-year-old Mervyn Bais­den has built a book­stall that sup­plies sec­ond-hand school­books to stu­dents across Trinidad.

One man has been ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the shoot­ing of a rel­a­tive dur­ing an ar­gu­ment.

It could take up to ten years to re­solve the per­sis­tent flood­ing af­fect­ing res­i­dents of the South Oropouche Basin, ac­cord­ing to a com­mu­ni­ty en­vi­ron­men­tal­ist.