Some lo­cal gov­ern­ment coun­cil­lors are warn­ing that chron­ic de­lays in the re­lease of gov­ern­ment funds are leav­ing work­ers, coun­cil­lors and mu­nic­i­pal cor­po­ra­tions un­der mount­ing fi­nan­cial pres­sure—with some coun­cil­lors re­port­ed­ly fac­ing evic­tion from their of­fices.

Fol­low­ing the mur­der of three peo­ple on Sat­ur­day night—two with­in his Tu­na­puna con­stituen­cy—Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der said he is deeply con­cerned about the cur­rent spate of killings.

Jus­tices of Ap­peal Mark Mo­hammed, Maria Wil­son and Ricky Rahim have re­served judg­ment in an ex­pe­dit­ed ap­peal brought by Re­pub­lic Bank Lim­it­ed (RBL), which is chal­leng­ing a High Court rul­ing or­der­ing it to com­pen­sate a for­mer em­ploy­ee fol­low­ing a 2022 break-in at its Cou­va branch.

Mem­bers of a Joint Se­lect Com­mit­tee (JSC) yes­ter­day ex­pressed con­cern over what they de­scribed as trou­bling fi­nan­cial con­tra­dic­tions in­volv­ing the Na­tion­al Main­te­nance Train­ing and Se­cu­ri­ty Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (MTS).

Res­i­dents of Trinidad and To­ba­go are be­ing urged to take im­me­di­ate pre­cau­tions as a sig­nif­i­cant in­flux of Sa­ha­ran dust moves across the re­gion, caus­ing vis­i­bly hazy skies and a no­tice­able de­cline in air qual­i­ty.

Nine days af­ter a cou­ple was gunned down in front of their three-year-old daugh­ter at Jade Court, Cou­va, res­i­dents stepped out on Sun­day for a peace con­cert aimed at restor­ing calm and uni­ty in the shak­en com­mu­ni­ty. And at least one artiste says the coun­try needs to come to­geth­er to stop the crime.

Fol­low­ing the week­end killings of three peo­ple, in­clud­ing two in his Tu­na­puna con­stituen­cy, Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der said he is not sat­is­fied with the cur­rent mur­der rate.

Of­fi­cers of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice have re­cov­ered a stolen ve­hi­cle and ar­rest­ed three men dur­ing an an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion in the Freeport Po­lice Dis­trict.

A po­lice of­fi­cer has won his ap­peal in a long-run­ning le­gal fight over a shoul­der in­jury he suf­fered as a re­cruit, af­ter the Court of Ap­peal over­turned a High Court de­ci­sion that had dis­missed his case.

Caribbean Air­lines ad­vis­es of fur­ther flight can­cel­la­tions to and from John F. Kennedy In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port (JFK), New York, for to­day, Mon­day, Feb­ru­ary 23, and to­mor­row, Tues­day, Feb­ru­ary 24.

The AS­JA Ed­u­ca­tion Board of Man­age­ment has lost its ap­peal against a judge’s de­ci­sion to al­low a par­ent to pur­sue a ju­di­cial re­view over the penal­ty im­posed on his daugh­ter af­ter she was caught cheat­ing in an in­ter­nal ex­am­i­na­tion at AS­JA Girls’ Col­lege, San Fer­nan­do.

The Down­town Own­ers and Mer­chants As­so­ci­a­tion has called for pub­lic clar­i­fi­ca­tion on the pro­posed Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tion (ZOSO) leg­is­la­tion as mur­ders con­tin­ue across Trinidad and To­ba­go.