Fish­er­men and Friends of the Sea (FFOS) has raised alarm over the re­cent re­vo­ca­tion of the U.S. visa of its cor­po­rate sec­re­tary, Gary Aboud, warn­ing that civ­il so­ci­ety voic­es may be un­der pres­sure for speak­ing out. The or­gan­i­sa­tion said NGOs are a crit­i­cal pil­lar of democ­ra­cy.

Sev­er­al na­tions and en­vi­ron­men­tal groups on Fri­day slammed pro­pos­als in the fi­nal stages of this year’s U.N. cli­mate talks for fail­ing to ex­plic­it­ly men­tion the cause of glob­al warm­ing — the burn­ing of fu­els such as oil, gas and coal — with one ne­go­tia­tor warn­ing the talks are on “the verge of col­lapse.”

PNM To­ba­go po­lit­i­cal leader An­cil Den­nis has ac­cused the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly of in­tend­ing to qui­et­ly end the is­land’s Com­mu­ni­ty-based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) and Un­em­ploy­ment Re­lief Pro­gramme (URP), but on­ly af­ter vot­ers head to the polls.

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro reaf­firmed his ze­ro-tol­er­ance ap­proach to il­le­gal quar­ry­ing and min­er­al pro­cess­ing, say­ing the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice has been pur­su­ing of­fend­ers for years and will con­tin­ue to dis­man­tle the crim­i­nal net­works be­hind the trade.

A Com­mu­ni­ty-based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme Com­pa­ny (Cepep) con­trac­tor has failed in its bid to re­vive its law­suit chal­leng­ing a mass ter­mi­na­tion ex­er­cise in the State com­pa­ny.

The Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) will end its con­tracts with at least 50 main­te­nance providers and their em­ploy­ees by year’s end and has sig­nalled the pos­si­bil­i­ty of fur­ther staff re­duc­tions as its chair­man seeks to re­verse, what he says, is a decade of se­vere fi­nan­cial mis­man­age­ment.

A de­ten­tion or­der has been is­sued for a woman who post­ed an im­age of the Prime Min­is­ter’s Philip­pine home on so­cial me­dia, call­ing on Venezuela to tar­get it.

Busi­ness­man Dan­ny Guer­ra was ar­rest­ed on a Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO) last evening.

Po­lice will be im­ple­ment­ing more stop-and-search ex­er­cis­es along the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route af­ter Wednes­day’s dar­ing day­light armed rob­bery aboard a maxi-taxi at Windy Hill in Arou­ca.

The Home In­va­sion (Self-De­fence and De­fence of Prop­er­ty) Bill, 2025, oth­er­wise known as the stand-your-ground law, will be in­tro­duced on the House’s agen­da to­day for fu­ture de­bate.

Leader of the Pa­tri­ot­ic Front, Mick­ela Pan­day, says the coun­try should not have to de­pend on the US to ad­dress the crime sit­u­a­tion.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine says To­bag­o­ni­ans will know the date of the next To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly elec­tion “soon­er than you think”, but in­sists that a Christ­mas elec­tion is con­sti­tu­tion­al­ly im­pos­si­ble.