Now that the Privy Coun­cil has giv­en the green light for the full im­ple­men­ta­tion of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Rev­enue Au­thor­i­ty (TTRA), one of the con­cerns raised is who will be the recog­nised union to rep­re­sent the work­ers.

While one po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst be­lieves Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s crit­i­cisms of the COVID-19 vac­cine are ir­rel­e­vant, an­oth­er an­a­lyst says her com­ments may have been based on pub­lic feed­back.

More amend­ments will be brought to the Par­lia­ment af­ter the re­cent pas­sage of the Mis­cel­la­neous Pro­vi­sions (Glob­al Fo­rum) Bill, which tight­ens as­pects of de­c­la­ra­tions that com­pa­nies, trusts and non-prof­it en­ti­ties have to make to the Gov­ern­ment.

Crim­i­nal Bar As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent Is­rael Khan, SC, said yes­ter­day that the rob­bery at gun­point of Health Min­is­ter Ter­rence Deyals­ingh should send a clear mes­sage to him (Deyals­ingh) that “crime has come home to him if not the en­tire Cab­i­net, as it has to the en­tire coun­try.”

The Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) says it has not made any pay­ment to con­trac­tor Ricky Raghu­nanan for the con­tro­ver­sial Tre­strail De­vel­op­ment.

Po­lice Com­plaints Au­thor­i­ty (PCA) head David West is em­pha­sis­ing the crit­i­cal role of body cam­eras in law en­force­ment.

Four Spe­cial Re­serve Po­lice (SRP) of­fi­cers for­mer­ly as­signed to the Ch­agua­nas Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion have suc­ceed­ed in the law­suit over their fail­ure to re­ceive gra­tu­ities af­ter they were re­called from the cor­po­ra­tion. 

The Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions is set to take over the case of Freeport moth­er Afiya Adams, who suc­cumbed to her in­juries yes­ter­day af­ter be­ing set on fire last Sat­ur­day.

The Point Fortin Taxi Dri­vers’ As­so­ci­a­tion is call­ing on Gov­ern­ment to en­sure a prop­er sup­ply of Com­pressed Nat­ur­al Gas (CNG) is de­liv­ered to Point Fortin.

The U.N. Gen­er­al As­sem­bly strong­ly sup­port­ed a non­bind­ing Pales­tin­ian res­o­lu­tion Wednes­day de­mand­ing that Is­rael end its “un­law­ful pres­ence” in Gaza and the oc­cu­pied West Bank with­in a year.

Chief Whip David Lee says no Op­po­si­tion MP has been side-lined or pre­vent­ed from con­tribut­ing in Par­lia­ment.

Mem­bers of the Joint Trade Union Move­ment (JTUM) opt­ed out of the spe­cial sit­ting of the In­dus­tri­al Court for the open­ing of the new law term 2024 to 2025 on Tues­day morn­ing. In­stead, they joined the pres­i­dent of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Na­tion­al Nurs­es As­so­ci­a­tion (TTNNA) Idi Stu­art and the pres­i­dent of the Es­tate Po­lice As­so­ci­a­tion (EPA) Deryck Richard­son in their call for the court's In­dus­tri­al Re­la­tions Chair­man Lawrence Achong to step down.