The Gov­ern­ment is seek­ing to amend the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) Act when par­lia­ment re­sumes to­mor­row.

Chair­man of the Coun­cil for Re­spon­si­ble Po­lit­i­cal Be­hav­iour (CRPB), Dr Bish­nu Ra­goonath, has re­vealed that the re­cent­ly con­clud­ed To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) elec­tion cam­paign was marred by mul­ti­ple breach­es of the Code of Eth­i­cal Po­lit­i­cal Con­duct, rais­ing con­cerns about the tone and ma­tu­ri­ty of po­lit­i­cal en­gage­ment in To­ba­go.

The re­sults of the re­counts re­quest­ed by the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) in two To­ba­go seats showed that the PNM lost in both, re­sult­ing in no change in the 15-0 vic­to­ry of the To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty in Mon­day’s To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) elec­tions.

De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge says ef­forts to speed up the jus­tice sys­tem should not come at the ex­pense of jus­tice for vic­tims of crime.

Of­fi­cers of the Po­lice Cy­ber Crime Unit and the Pro­fes­sion­al Stan­dards Bu­reau (PSB) have launched an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the dis­ap­pear­ance of a smart­phone used as ev­i­dence, which lat­er “reap­peared” in the of­fice of the Fraud Squad weeks lat­er.

Still strug­gling to cope with the loss of his three-year-old son, the fa­ther of Omarie Richins is ap­peal­ing to the pub­lic to re­frain from mak­ing what he de­scribed as un­just and hurt­ful com­ments sur­round­ing the child’s death.

With wage ar­rears stretch­ing back near­ly a decade for some work­ers, trade unions are sig­nalling es­ca­la­tion in protest ac­tion as the Gov­ern­ment re­mains silent on when out­stand­ing pub­lic sec­tor salary in­creas­es will be paid.

A Mor­vant pen­sion­er was chopped about the head and then stoned by a man known to him dur­ing an ar­gu­ment on Tues­day.

As res­i­dents of Fort Pic­ton, Laven­tille, stood shell-shocked and stared in dis­be­lief as the body of pen­sion­er Ver­na Rigault was re­moved from her gut­ted home yes­ter­day, Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for the area, Ka­reem Mar­celle, agreed that the com­mu­ni­ty’s long-stand­ing lack of wa­ter had con­tributed to the tragedy.

Venezuela’s act­ing Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez on Wednes­day vowed to con­tin­ue re­leas­ing pris­on­ers de­tained un­der for­mer Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro dur­ing her first press brief­ing since Maduro was oust­ed by the Unit­ed States ear­li­er this month.

If you're a T&T pass­port hold­er plan­ning to take a trip this year, you may need to add "ap­ply for a visa" to your to-do list.

Over 10 Caribbean coun­tries have been im­pact­ed as the US State De­part­ment is paus­ing im­mi­grant visa pro­cess­ing for 75 coun­tries in an ef­fort "to crack down on ap­pli­cants deemed like­ly to be­come a pub­lic charge." Trinidad and To­ba­go and Guyana have not been in­clud­ed.