The Port-of-Spain City Cor­po­ra­tion staged its an­nu­al City Day Pa­rade yes­ter­day, as part of cel­e­bra­tions mark­ing the city’s 112th an­niver­sary.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) has threat­ened to sue Port-of-Spain South MP Kei­th Scot­land and a mem­ber of his law cham­bers over the rep­re­sen­ta­tion they pro­vid­ed in its bid to re­cov­er ap­prox­i­mate­ly $2.4 mil­lion in un­paid elec­tric­i­ty charges from ice cream man­u­fac­tur­er Fla­vorite Foods Ltd. 

A brazen ATM heist in Ply­mouth, To­ba­go, has stunned res­i­dents who have de­scribed the in­ci­dent as straight out of a movie.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, the vic­tim was lim­ing at the cor­ner of Dutch Fort Road and Mil­ford Road when a gun­man ap­proached and opened fire.

De­spite a 50 per cent in­crease in homi­cides in the North-Cen­tral Di­vi­sion last year com­pared to this year, the di­vi­sion­al head says there is an over­all nine per cent re­duc­tion in se­ri­ous crimes.

A re­newed search for miss­ing Williamsville busi­ness­man Kelvin Sama­roo has so far yield­ed no break­through, with rel­a­tives con­firm­ing that he re­mained un­ac­count­ed for up to yes­ter­day as po­lice and vol­un­teer teams con­tin­ued in­ves­ti­ga­tions across south­ern Trinidad.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice So­cial and Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion (TTPSS­WA) has raised con­cerns about grow­ing of­fi­cer burnout, staff short­ages and pro­longed de­lays in pro­mo­tions, warn­ing that the is­sues are af­fect­ing morale with­in the po­lice ser­vice.

Less than two weeks be­fore Cari­com lead­ers con­vene in St Lu­cia, a le­gal opin­ion by UWI law pro­fes­sor Ra­jen­dra Ram­lo­gan has con­clud­ed that there is a sub­stan­tial le­gal ba­sis for chal­leng­ing the va­lid­i­ty of Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al Dr Car­la Bar­nett’s reap­point­ment.

The Em­ploy­ers’ Con­sul­ta­tive As­so­ci­a­tion (ECA) is call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to con­sid­er struc­tured train­ing pro­grammes to help stu­dents tran­si­tion from school to the work­place as part of ef­forts to tack­le youth un­em­ploy­ment and un­der­em­ploy­ment in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Tech­ni­cal of­fi­cers from the Min­istry of Works and In­fra­struc­ture are in­creas­ing­ly re­luc­tant to at­tend Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment co­or­di­nat­ing meet­ings across Trinidad be­cause of what se­nior of­fi­cials de­scribe as a pat­tern of dis­re­spect­ful and de­grad­ing treat­ment by elect­ed rep­re­sen­ta­tives at re­gion­al cor­po­ra­tions.

Ro­man Catholic Vic­ar Gen­er­al Fr Mar­tin Sir­ju says he has seen first­hand the ef­fects of eco­nom­ic hard­ship in and around Port-of-Spain, not­ing an in­crease in the num­ber of peo­ple seek­ing the church’s help to ob­tain ba­sic ne­ces­si­ties in re­cent times.

The Palmiste Gov­ern­ment School is steadi­ly re­build­ing and mov­ing for­ward af­ter the dev­as­tat­ing fire that de­stroyed the in­sti­tu­tion in De­cem­ber 2023.