Em­ploy­ees of Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) are ex­pect­ed to meet with rep­re­sen­ta­tives from the Avi­a­tion Com­mu­ni­ca­tion and Al­lied Work­ers Union (ACAWU) at 10 am to­day to get some clar­i­ty on their job sit­u­a­tions fol­low­ing CAL’s an­nounce­ment yes­ter­day that 25 per cent or 450 of it’s em­ploy­ees with be laid-off.

Op­po­si­tion sen­a­tor Damien Ly­der gave that fig­ure dur­ing his con­tri­bu­tion to the Gam­bling (Gam­ing and Bet­ting) Con­trol Bill 2021 de­bate in the Sen­ate yes­ter­day.

A High Court Judge has re­ject­ed a move to have one of two men, ac­cused of mur­der­ing six-year-old Sean Luke as teenagers, freed due to in­suf­fi­cient ev­i­dence against him.

For those peo­ple ea­ger­ly await­ing the re­open­ing of T&T’s bor­ders in the com­ing weeks, they will have to meet the cri­te­ria cur­rent­ly be­ing for­mu­lat­ed and al­so ad­here to na­tion­al pol­i­cy guide­lines as it re­lates to quar­an­tine.

Rousil­lac farm­ers formed a hu­man bar­ri­cade to stop work­ers from the T&T Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion from en­ter­ing their pri­vate lands to con­struct two high ten­sion tow­ers.

Hol­ly­wood ac­tor Michael B Jor­dan’s ap­pli­ca­tion for a trade­mark on the use of the word “J’Ou­vert,” which is the ti­tle of the Black Pan­ther star’s new rum, can­not re­al­ly be stopped.

Charred skele­tal re­mains found in a dump­site in Re­form Vil­lage last Thurs­day and Sat­ur­day were trans­ferred to the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre yes­ter­day for an an­a­lyst to ex­am­ine.

The son of a Moru­ga po­lice sergeant was grant­ed $100,000 bail when he ap­peared be­fore a Siparia Mag­is­trate charged with al­leged­ly rap­ing a 15-year-old girl.

A group of 30 po­lice sergeants have suc­cess­ful­ly ap­plied to have an in­junc­tion bar­ring all pro­mo­tions to the rank of In­spec­tor, ob­tained by a group of their col­leagues, lift­ed. 

Yet an­oth­er po­lice has lost the fight against COVID-19, leav­ing the Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice and the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice in mourn­ing.

A to­tal of 747 peo­ple have suc­cumbed to COVID-19 af­ter 10 ad­di­tion­al fa­tal­i­ties with­in the pre­vi­ous 24 hours, ac­cord­ing to the Min­istry of Health. 
Ac­cord­ing to its dai­ly up­date, nine of the peo­ple who died had co­mor­bidi­ties– two were el­der­ly males, four were el­der­ly fe­males, one was a mid­dle-aged male and two were mid­dle-aged fe­males.

With im­ages of el­der­ly peo­ple with­stand­ing rain and sun to get vac­ci­nat­ed dom­i­nat­ing the news last week, coun­cil­lors at the Point Fortin Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion (PF­BC) are tak­ing charge of get­ting their se­nior mem­bers to their ap­point­ment.