Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has cred­it­ed re­cent lead­er­ship changes with­in the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice’s To­ba­go Di­vi­sion for Mon­day’s his­toric $42 mil­lion nar­cotics haul at Pi­geon Point and the re­cent de­cline in se­ri­ous crimes.

For­mer chief mag­is­trate Mar­cia Ay­ers-Cae­sar will have to wait to learn the fate of her law­suit over her short-lived ju­di­cial ap­point­ment.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has dis­missed Op­po­si­tion leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s ac­cu­sa­tion of mis­man­age­ment of pub­lic funds on the ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port De­vel­op­ment project, which she claims has in­curred $431 mil­lion in cost over­runs due to ex­ces­sive de­lays.

A High Court Judge is ex­pect­ed to rule on a law­suit over the pro­mo­tion as­sess­ment process for the rank of As­sis­tant Su­per­in­ten­dent of Po­lice (ASP) in mid-Feb­ru­ary. 

Two men who were charged by PC Ba­boolal of the An­ti-Ex­tor­tion Unit with de­mand­ing mon­ey by men­ace were de­nied bail when they ap­peared in court on Mon­day.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing in­to Mon­day’s shoot­ing of a teacher from the Mamoral RC Pri­ma­ry School, min­utes af­ter he left the in­sti­tu­tion for the day.

The labour move­ment is prepar­ing to take to the streets this week­end in ma­jor protests, as it calls on the Gov­ern­ment to present a more favourable wage of­fer and abol­ish the four per cent wage cap im­posed on pub­lic ser­vants.

Ch­agua­nas West MP Di­nesh Ram­bal­ly is call­ing on the pop­u­la­tion to take a stand against the Prime Min­is­ter’s de­ci­sion to ac­cept the Salaries Re­view Com­mis­sion’s pro­posed in­creas­es for top pub­lic of­fi­cials.

Pan Trin­ba­go an­nounced the top 25 fi­nal­ists for the Sin­gle Pan Fi­nals on Sat­ur­day, De­cem­ber 14, 2024, at Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, Port of Spain. Forty-two Sin­gle Pan Steel­bands com­pet­ed in re­gion­al pre­lim­i­nar­ies over eight days. Judges se­lect­ed the fi­nal­ists based on their per­for­mances.

South Ko­re­an Pres­i­dent Yoon Suk Yeol’s gov­ern­ment ear­ly Wednes­day lift­ed the mar­tial law he im­posed dur­ing a tense night of po­lit­i­cal dra­ma in which troops sur­round­ed par­lia­ment and law­mak­ers vot­ed to re­ject mil­i­tary rule.

One po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst says the se­lec­tion of Ka­reem Mar­celle as the can­di­date for Laven­tille West, is a clear in­di­ca­tion that the Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) is will­ing to se­lect a can­di­date who can con­nect with a younger age de­mo­graph­ic.

The mu­ti­lat­ed body of an uniden­ti­fied man was found at Train­line, Quinam Road, Siparia, on Mon­day.