A group of frus­trat­ed for­mer CEPEP, URP, and Na­tion­al Re­for­esta­tion and Wa­ter­shed Pro­gramme work­ers is call­ing on au­thor­i­ties to fast-track mea­sures so they can put food on the ta­ble. Many of them were among over 190,000 ap­pli­cants seek­ing em­ploy­ment through the Gov­ern­ment’s job re­cruit­ment dri­ve.

The Court of Ap­peal has re­served its de­ci­sion on the fu­ture of lit­i­ga­tion chal­leng­ing the mass ter­mi­na­tion of over 300 Com­mu­ni­ty-based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme Com­pa­ny (CEPEP) con­trac­tors. 

A call for aid to hur­ri­cane-rav­aged Ja­maica has been met with mixed re­spons­es, as anx­i­ety over pos­si­ble war has damp­ened some of­fers of sup­port, leav­ing the San Fer­nan­do City Cor­po­ra­tion strug­gling to col­lect do­na­tions while a steady stream of con­trib­u­tors gath­ered at the Pe­nal/Debe Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion yes­ter­day.

A team from the Con­cerned Mus­lims of Trinidad and To­ba­go (CMTT) de­part­ed for Ja­maica yes­ter­day to be­gin on-the-ground re­lief op­er­a­tions fol­low­ing the dev­as­tat­ing Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa that re­cent­ly struck the is­land.

The Gi­ant African Snail, one of the world’s most de­struc­tive agri­cul­tur­al pests, has long been a source of frus­tra­tion for farm­ers and home­own­ers across T&T.

Ques­tions about prop­er safe­ty pro­to­cols have arisen fol­low­ing the death of a Freeport mo­torist in an ac­ci­dent in­volv­ing a truck trans­port­ing a con­tain­er on Wednes­day.

A joint po­lice and tax en­force­ment ex­er­cise in the St Joseph dis­trict has un­cov­ered near­ly $1.9 mil­lion in un­paid gam­ing tax­es af­ter checks at sev­er­al li­censed premis­es on Thurs­day.

A for­mer es­tate con­sta­ble with the Air­ports Au­thor­i­ty has won his ap­peal over be­ing con­vict­ed of as­sault­ing and ob­struct­ing a po­lice of­fi­cer.

Al­though the labour move­ment has been in ex­is­tence in T&T for over a cen­tu­ry, it still does not have a li­brary with a col­lec­tion of its ac­com­plish­ments and his­to­ry.

Se­nior Coun­sel Is­rael Ra­jah-Khan is among this year’s re­cip­i­ents of hon­orary doc­tor­al de­grees from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (UTT).

A mo­tion to ex­tend the State of Emer­gency (SoE) for a sec­ond time was passed in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives on Fri­day with 27 Gov­ern­ment votes in favour and 12 Op­po­si­tion votes against. There were no ab­sten­tions.

The Su­per­mar­ket As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (SATT) has as­sured the pub­lic that there is no need for pan­ic buy­ing de­spite re­cent news re­ports.