With the busy Christ­mas sea­son com­menc­ing, busi­ness own­ers say they are now los­ing sleep over the wors­en­ing is­sue of for­eign ex­change ac­cess.

The Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TSTT) has been or­dered to pay $1 mil­lion by a High Court judge to Prometheus En­gi­neer­ing and Con­sul­tants Ltd for breach of agree­ment.

The PNM’s Laven­tille West Women’s League will meet again next Thurs­day re­gard­ing the gen­er­al elec­tion nom­i­na­tion for the con­stituen­cy’s seat, af­ter Mon­day’s meet­ing of mem­bers which end­ed with “ir­reg­u­lar­i­ties.”

The up­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tions have ig­nit­ed a de­bate among con­stituents of Laven­tille West over the fu­ture of in­cum­bent MP Fitzger­ald Hinds.

A me­dia re­lease from the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter yes­ter­day said Row­ley had left for Bar­ba­dos and was ac­com­pa­nied by his wife, Sharon Row­ley.

San Fer­nan­do May­or Robert Par­ris is call­ing on res­i­dents to keep the city clean as the cor­po­ra­tion pur­sues its tourism thrust.

Ven­dors at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, Port-of-Spain, are will­ing to take the Gov­ern­ment to court af­ter they were or­dered to va­cate the area to al­low prepa­ra­tion for the Memo­r­i­al Day pro­ces­sion.

A San Fer­nan­do busi­ness­man is prais­ing his neigh­bours, fire­fight­ers, and po­lice for their as­sis­tance af­ter his wife was res­cued af­ter be­ing trapped in their home dur­ing a fire on Mon­day.

Pres­i­dent of the As­so­ci­a­tion of Fu­ner­al Pro­fes­sion­als of Trinidad and To­ba­go, Kei­th Bel­grove, says the tra­di­tions of All Saints’ and All Souls’ Days are dwin­dling.

Four­teen years af­ter a Freeport ac­coun­tant was mur­dered and his com­mon-law wife and ba­by kid­napped for ran­som dur­ing a rob­bery at their home, two men have been sen­tenced.

A 50-year-old Freeport man was shot in the leg af­ter he went to meet some­one he met on Face­book to pur­chase a car.

Po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the bloody fight be­tween two moth­ers in front of the Ce­dros Sec­ondary School are al­most com­plete.