The Joint Trade Union Move­ment (JTUM) is voic­ing its op­po­si­tion to any form of mil­i­tary con­flict in the re­gion, de­clar­ing that the Caribbean must re­main a “Zone of Peace.”

Days af­ter the nurs­ing as­so­ci­a­tion met with the board of the North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA), nurs­es protest­ed out­side the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ence Com­plex yes­ter­day, de­mand­ing an in­crease in staff.

The mem­bers of the State of Emer­gency (SoE) Re­view Tri­bunal are de­fend­ing them­selves against claims that they have not been per­form­ing their du­ties as re­quired and have fall­en asleep on the job.

The Min­istry of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries has con­tact­ed the new­ly formed Trinidad and To­ba­go Ag­gre­gate Pro­duc­ers Al­liance (TTA­PA) amid on­go­ing con­cerns over the is­suance of sand and grav­el pro­cess­ing li­cences.

One fam­i­ly was evac­u­at­ed from Fyz­abad, and fish­er­men were forced to halt their trade in Fuller­ton Beach fol­low­ing sep­a­rate oil spills.

An ear­ly morn­ing fire along Ve­ga De Oropouche, To­co Main Road, has left three fam­i­lies—15 peo­ple in to­tal—home­less, with loss­es es­ti­mat­ed at close to $1 mil­lion.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) To­ba­go Coun­cil has be­gun re­veal­ing its can­di­dates for the up­com­ing To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) elec­tion, even as Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots (PDP) leader Wat­son Duke in­sists his par­ty re­mains the pace-set­ter in To­ba­go pol­i­tics.

Lawyers rep­re­sent­ing Suri­name have agreed that the coun­try will abide by a Caribbean Court of Jus­tice (CCJ) rul­ing on the le­gal­i­ty of a unique le­gal mea­sure used by its pros­e­cu­tors to de­ny de­tainees ac­cess to le­gal rep­re­sen­ta­tion while they are un­der in­ves­ti­ga­tion. 

A 58-year-old taxi dri­ver fought off a knife-wield­ing ban­dit dur­ing a day­light rob­bery in Pe­nal on Thurs­day, es­cap­ing with mi­nor in­juries.

Al­most a month af­ter Ch­agua­nas busi­ness­man Im­raz “Clubs” Ali was found dead, two men have ap­peared in court charged with his mur­der.

Two em­ploy­ees of Carib Brew­ery in Champs Fleurs have been ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with a false re­port of rob­bery and kid­nap­ping.

The T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has agreed to dis­close in­for­ma­tion com­piled by the Pro­mo­tions Ad­vi­so­ry Board (PAB) in re­la­tion to a group of po­lice con­sta­bles seek­ing to prove that they were by­passed for pro­mo­tion.