For­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley says Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is try­ing her best as po­lit­i­cal leader of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM).

For­mer fi­nance min­is­ter Karen Nunez-Tesheira has been dis­charged from hos­pi­tal and is re­cov­er­ing at home af­ter suf­fer­ing a med­ical episode while ap­pear­ing live on tele­vi­sion on Thurs­day morn­ing.

Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der has de­fend­ed Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to in­tro­duce the E-Pass­port sys­tem, ar­gu­ing that it was not on­ly more con­ve­nient for dai­ly tasks and record-keep­ing but would al­so en­sure a high­er de­gree of se­cu­ri­ty is main­tained.

A re­cent mud ex­tru­sion has been dis­cov­ered at Pa­lo Seco Bay, the lat­est ge­o­log­i­cal fea­ture to emerge along Trinidad’s south-west­ern coast­line fol­low­ing the re­cent pow­er­ful twin earth­quakes off Venezuela. It is be­lieved the ex­tru­sion may have oc­curred around the same time the coast­line at Gal­fa Beach in Ce­dros was up­lift­ed by ap­prox­i­mate­ly 20 feet.

Garbage piles and de­te­ri­o­rat­ing road con­di­tions have be­come a grow­ing con­cern for res­i­dents of the Cy­press Ridge Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) com­mu­ni­ty, who are call­ing for ur­gent in­ter­ven­tion, warn­ing that the prob­lems are cre­at­ing health and safe­ty risks.

With the grow­ing use of ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence (AI), the Ju­di­cia­ry has is­sued a prac­tice di­rec­tion on the re­spon­si­ble use of AI in court pro­ceed­ings.

The Caribbean can­not stop hur­ri­canes, floods or earth­quakes, but in­side a Hilton Trinidad con­fer­ence room in Port-of-Spain this week, the con­ver­sa­tion was al­ready on­go­ing about de­cid­ing how pre­pared it is be­fore the next dis­as­ter strikes.

One hun­dred and fifty-eight dai­ly-paid work­ers are ex­pect­ed to be pro­mot­ed to per­ma­nent em­ploy­ment with­in the Di­vi­sion of Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment and So­cial Pro­tec­tion.

A Spe­cial Re­serve Po­lice of­fi­cer, who has been sus­pend­ed since Jan­u­ary 2021 af­ter be­ing charged with beat­ing his then-girl­friend, was freed of the charge yes­ter­day af­ter the State re­peat­ed­ly failed to pro­duce wit­ness­es to sub­stan­ti­ate the al­le­ga­tion, in­clud­ing the com­plainant.

As some sec­ondary schools re­quire par­ents to pay for school pack­ages cost­ing $4,000 or more, oth­ers are seek­ing to ease the fi­nan­cial bur­den by of­fer­ing free text­books, ze­ro reg­is­tra­tion fees, and pro­vid­ing ad­di­tion­al sup­port for stu­dents.

Mikel Meri­no scored in the 88th minute on a re­bound yield­ed by back­up Bel­gium goal­keep­er Senne Lam­mens, and Spain ad­vanced to the World Cup semi­fi­nals with a 2-1 vic­to­ry on Fri­day.

Gov­ern­ment is look­ing at new ways to ease for­eign ex­change short­ages, al­though of­fi­cials say the mea­sures will not in­crease the over­all sup­ply of US dol­lars. Se­nior min­is­ters and the Cen­tral Bank met with en­er­gy sec­tor rep­re­sen­ta­tives on Fri­day to dis­cuss im­prov­ing how for­eign ex­change is al­lo­cat­ed across the mar­ket.