A se­nior at­tor­ney is call­ing on the Chief Med­ical Of­fi­cer and two for­mer min­is­ters to “bow their heads in shame,” af­ter three Ap­peal Court judges ruled yes­ter­day that the for­mer gov­ern­ment’s han­dling of the re-en­try pol­i­cy in­to Trinidad and To­ba­go dur­ing the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic was a breach of the con­sti­tu­tion­al rights of two women. They al­so or­dered that the women be com­pen­sat­ed for the time they were locked out.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) is dis­tanc­ing it­self from al­le­ga­tions made by Spe­cial Re­serve Po­lice­man (SRP) Rus­sell Be­dasse in a se­ries of so­cial me­dia videos fol­low­ing the death of his moth­er.

No to a fu­el price hike, but sup­port for CEPEP and URP work­ers, im­me­di­ate an­ti-crime so­lu­tions, and a new med­ical busi­ness sec­tor.

Fol­low­ing weeks of wa­ter sup­ply dis­rup­tions across sev­er­al parts of To­ba­go, Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has said that the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) must fix the is­land’s on­go­ing wa­ter cri­sis. Au­gus­tine said he hoped some re­lief would come af­ter a planned meet­ing with WASA ex­ec­u­tives to­mor­row.

Min­is­ter of Plan­ning, Eco­nom­ic Af­fairs and De­vel­op­ment, Kennedy Swarats­ingh, says no men­tion was made about the dis­burse­ment of fund col­lect­ed via prop­er­ty tax. In­stead, he said in­for­ma­tion was giv­en about the pay­ment count and pay­ments re­ceived for each cor­po­ra­tion.

The Min­is­ter of For­eign Af­fairs is de­fend­ing an agree­ment signed be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go and the Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates, al­low­ing diplo­mat­ic and of­fi­cial pass­port hold­ers to en­ter the UAE visa-free. Ac­cord­ing to a re­lease from the UAE For­eign Af­fairs Min­istry, UAE cit­i­zens hold­ing diplo­mat­ic, spe­cial, or­di­nary, and “mis­sion” pass­ports are now ex­empt from the visa re­quire­ment for en­try to T&T.

Ef­forts to bring home Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­als strand­ed in de­ten­tion camps over­seas have stalled, as the Repa­tri­a­tion Com­mit­tee says it is still await­ing di­rec­tion from the new In­ter-Min­is­te­r­i­al Com­mit­tee es­tab­lished by Gov­ern­ment.

T&T’s mul­ti­cul­tur­al fab­ric con­tin­ues to shine as a “liv­ing ex­am­ple” of how di­verse com­mu­ni­ties can co-ex­ist and flour­ish to­geth­er.

Like the flag she joy­ful­ly waved on stage, emo­tions rose and swayed in re­mem­brance, as many gath­ered to bid farewell to cul­tur­al icon Valar­ie Green.

A San Fer­nan­do man has been slapped with six months in prison for bit­ing off a piece of a se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cer’s fin­ger dur­ing a scuf­fle last week.

The in­ci­dent oc­curred around 10.30 am at the bas­ket­ball court in John John, Quar­ry Road, Laven­tille.

Res­i­dents of Mt D'or are set to get a boost in their wa­ter sup­ply in the com­ing weeks af­ter a promise by the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty’s (WASA) act­ing Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer, Jee­van Joseph, to pro­cure a new pump for the area.