The Min­is­ter of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment says no de­ci­sion has been made by the min­istry to deduct al­lowances for chair­men and con­venors of com­mit­tees from coun­cil­lors’ retroac­tive back­pay pay­ments.

Unit­ed States Vice Pres­i­dent JD Vance has used Trinidad and To­ba­go as an ex­am­ple of a high crime rate af­fect­ing a coun­try, while de­fend­ing Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s se­cu­ri­ty crack­down in Wash­ing­ton, DC.

Jus­tice Min­is­ter De­vesh Ma­haraj yes­ter­day hint­ed that vir­tu­al court hear­ings may soon re­sume at the Port-of-Spain Mag­is­trates’ Court, as Gov­ern­ment seeks to al­le­vi­ate some of the stress placed on of­fi­cers at the Besson Street Po­lice Sta­tion.

Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) Stu­dents Guild pres­i­dent Vedanand Har­gob­in says thou­sands of stu­dents at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies’ (UWI) St Au­gus­tine cam­pus are re­lieved that they will not have to pay a 20 per cent in­crease in tu­ition fees come Sep­tem­ber 3.

A Princes Town cou­ple en­dured a ter­ri­fy­ing or­deal in the ear­ly hours of Tues­day when four masked ban­dits broke in­to their home, as­sault­ed them, and es­caped with cash, valu­ables, and even the keys to their cars.

A rou­tine Mon­day morn­ing in the San Fer­nan­do court took on a weight­i­er tone as eight men faced charges stem­ming from a tar­get­ed firearm sup­pres­sion ex­er­cise ear­li­er this month. Some walked out on bail un­der strict con­di­tions, while oth­ers were or­dered to re­main be­hind bars as the crack­down on il­le­gal guns in the South­ern Di­vi­sion in­ten­si­fies.

Hav­ing lost four hous­es be­cause of land­slips, res­i­dents of Sa­ha­dath Trace, Princes Town, are call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to en­sure that road re­pairs are done prop­er­ly, say­ing on­go­ing works in their com­mu­ni­ty have failed mul­ti­ple times, leav­ing them bat­tling with dust and in­con­ve­nience.

Corinth Hills res­i­dents say they are fed up with sewage spills, which are gush­ing from pipes near Build­ing 13, leav­ing res­i­dents ill and chil­dren’s bod­ies cov­ered in rash­es. Some fam­i­lies have evac­u­at­ed as the stench in­creas­es, flood­ing drains and walk­ways with soiled toi­let pa­per and raw filth.

A Laven­tille-based con­tract­ing com­pa­ny will have a long wait for the Court of Ap­peal to weigh in on con­tentious lit­i­ga­tion over a move by the gov­ern­ment to ter­mi­nate over 300 Com­mu­ni­ty-based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme Com­pa­ny (CEPEP) con­trac­tors, in­clud­ing it.

Vice Pres­i­dent JD Vance has used Trinidad and To­ba­go as an ex­am­ple of high crime while de­fend­ing Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s se­cu­ri­ty crack­down in Wash­ing­ton, D.C.

Min­is­ter of Ed­u­ca­tion, Michael Dowlath, on Wednes­day host­ed a fo­rum with Prin­ci­pals of Gov­ern­ment and Gov­ern­ment-As­sist­ed Sec­ondary Schools un­der the theme “Lead­er­ship in Mo­tion – Ac­tion Plan Fo­rum.” The ses­sion was at­tend­ed by ap­prox­i­mate­ly 125 Prin­ci­pals and 18 School Su­per­vi­sors III rep­re­sent­ing the sev­en Ed­u­ca­tion Dis­tricts across Trinidad.

Min­is­ter of Health, Dr. Lack­ram Bo­doe, con­duct­ed an unan­nounced as­sess­ment of the Adult Ac­ci­dent and Emer­gency De­part­ment at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex on Tues­day.