The Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) says it “cat­e­gor­i­cal­ly de­nies re­cent al­le­ga­tions sug­gest­ing that doc­u­ments and files re­lat­ed to the cor­po­ra­tion’s op­er­a­tions were shred­ded or de­stroyed.” 

Sin­gle Moth­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (SMATT) pres­i­dent Sher­maine Wick­ham-Howe is ask­ing in­com­ing prime min­is­ter, Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, not to re­move sin­gle moth­ers em­ployed with the Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (Cepep) and the Un­em­ploy­ment Re­lief Pro­gramme (URP).

Tunapuna con­stituents said high crime and a de­sire for change in rep­re­sen­ta­tion led to for­mer MP Es­mond Forde’s elec­tion de­feat.

Three men, in­clud­ing a teenag­er, were robbed at gun­point on Tues­day night, af­ter the dri­ver of the car in which they were trav­el­ling stopped at Movi­eTowne, Port-of-Spain.