The Oil­fields Work­ers’ Trade Union’s (OW­TU) Uni­ver­si­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (UTT) branch has called for the re­moval of UTT ex­ec­u­tive chair­man Pro­fes­sor Sel­wyn Cud­joe, ac­cus­ing him of be­ing in­sen­si­tive to work­ers af­ter he de­clared that the coun­try does not have the mon­ey to meet out­stand­ing wage set­tle­ments.

The Na­tion­al Trade Union Cen­tre of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NATUC) is call­ing on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to re­con­sid­er her re­fusal to en­gage the Steel Work­ers’ Union of Trinidad and To­ba­go (SWUTT) over the re­open­ing of the for­mer Arcelor­Mit­tal steel plant at Point Lisas.

CAS­TRIES, St Lu­cia—The 15-mem­ber Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com) has em­ployed a re­gion­al law firm to present its re­sponse to the chal­lenge by Trinidad and To­ba­go Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar re­gard­ing the reap­point­ment of Cari­com Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al Dr Car­la Bar­nett.

Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) To­ba­go Of­fi­cer De­on Ro­driguez is rais­ing an alarm over the slow pace of the school re­pair pro­gramme on the is­land.

The sight of Trini­bad artistes Kashif “K Man” Sankar and Meschach “Plumpy Boss” Em­manuel per­form­ing to­geth­er, bump­ing fists and shar­ing the stage, has been wel­comed by res­i­dents of com­mu­ni­ties long di­vid­ed by gang vi­o­lence, who say the mo­ment sig­nals a re­turn to a time when peo­ple could move freely with­out fear.

A man iden­ti­fied on­ly as Ri­car­do was killed by po­lice on Sun­day, af­ter a con­fronta­tion with of­fi­cers who were at­tempt­ing to ar­rest him for be­ing in pos­ses­sion of an igua­na dur­ing the closed hunt­ing sea­son.

A fe­male pris­ons of­fi­cer was ar­rest­ed at the Gold­en Grove Prison in Arou­ca yes­ter­day, af­ter she was caught al­leged­ly try­ing to smug­gle in a quan­ti­ty of pro­hib­it­ed ar­ti­cles.

A 23-year-old Venezue­lan woman who ini­tial­ly told po­lice she found a new­born aban­doned in a card­board box in South Oropouche, but lat­er ad­mit­ted she was the ba­by’s moth­er, is con­tin­u­ing to as­sist with the in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

Garbage has been pil­ing up across Va­len­cia for more than two weeks af­ter the con­trac­tor re­spon­si­ble for col­lec­tion stopped ser­vic­ing the dis­trict, cit­ing the need for a high­er pay­ment to deal with the grow­ing num­ber of squat­ting com­mu­ni­ties.

Bar­ba­dos Prime Min­is­ter Mia Mot­t­ley ar­rived in Venezuela on Mon­day for talks with act­ing Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez as the two coun­tries seek to deep­en their bi­lat­er­al re­la­tions.

A man iden­ti­fied on­ly as Ri­car­do was killed by po­lice on Sun­day af­ter a con­fronta­tion with po­lice who tried to ar­rest him for hav­ing an igua­na out­side of hunt­ing sea­son.

Po­lice re­port­ed that Ku­mar Balkissoon was found dead by his broth­er at his home on Yu­catan Road, Waller­field, Ari­ma.