In­dia’s Min­is­ter of Ex­ter­nal Af­fairs Dr Sub­rah­manyam Jais­hankar says Trinidad and To­ba­go stands to ben­e­fit from deep­er col­lab­o­ra­tion with In­dia in ar­eas rang­ing from dig­i­tal pay­ments and phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals to en­er­gy se­cu­ri­ty and re­new­able en­er­gy ini­tia­tives.

The ad­min­is­tra­tion of jus­tice in any ju­ris­dic­tion is sup­posed to be fair, im­par­tial and ac­ces­si­ble.

Po­lice said around 2.50am, a rel­a­tive was in the liv­ing room of their home when she heard sev­er­al loud ex­plo­sions, and lat­er dis­cov­ered Brath­waite on the ground out­side bleed­ing from gun­shot wounds.

$1 mil­lion in agro-pro­cess­ing equip­ment is be­ing used to boost the lo­cal food in­dus­try. On Sat­ur­day, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar opened the Brechin Cas­tle Agro-Pro­cess­ing Fa­cil­i­ty in Cou­va.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go prison sys­tem con­tin­ues to pour hun­dreds of mil­lions of dol­lars in­to re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion pro­grammes that, on pa­per, are de­signed to re­form of­fend­ers—but in prac­tice are be­ing over­whelmed by en­trenched gang cul­ture, low lit­er­a­cy lev­els, weak post-re­lease sup­port, and a sys­tem in­sid­ers claim is con­tin­u­ing to churn out crim­i­nals.

A prison of­fi­cer as­signed to the Port-of-Spain Prison has been placed un­der a Pre­ven­ta­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO) af­ter he was ar­rest­ed on sus­pi­cion of fa­cil­i­tat­ing the in­tro­duc­tion of pro­hib­it­ed items in­to the prison sys­tem.

The rapid rise and fall of Re­pub­lic Bank Ltd’s (RBL) pro­posed fee in­creas­es has thrust the coun­try’s bank­ing sec­tor in­to the spot­light, high­light­ing the ten­sion be­tween cor­po­rate costs and con­sumer pro­tec­tion.

A re­cent cy­ber­at­tack that dis­rupt­ed the Uni­ver­si­ty of T&T’s (UTT) on­line op­er­a­tions and forced the post­pone­ment of ex­am­i­na­tions has re­newed con­cerns about the coun­try’s grow­ing de­pen­dence on cloud-based ed­u­ca­tion plat­forms.

Gov­ern­ment is mov­ing to re­name Nel­son Is­land with a com­mit­tee to over­see the process al­ready es­tab­lished.

The third an­nu­al Pri­ma­ry Ple­nary Car­a­van gets un­der­way on Mon­day with four schools in To­ba­go East and West get­ting their first lessons.

The Po­lice Acad­e­my, St James, came alive yes­ter­day as hun­dreds flocked to the venue to wit­ness teams from all ten polic­ing di­vi­sions vy­ing for brag­ging rights in the an­nu­al sports and fam­i­ly day.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says the launch of the Na­tion­al Pros­thet­ics Cen­tre in Pe­nal will ex­pand health­care ser­vices in Trinidad and To­ba­go (T&T) while po­si­tion­ing the coun­try as a re­gion­al hub for re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion ser­vices and train­ing with­in Cari­com.