The Min­is­ter of Trade and In­dus­try, Paula Gopee-Scoon, has as­sured mem­bers of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Scrap Iron Deal­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTSI­DA) that her team would col­lab­o­rate with rel­e­vant agen­cies to re­solve li­cens­ing chal­lenges, ahead of the full im­ple­men­ta­tion of the Scrap Met­al Act 2022.

A con­trac­tor was gunned down in front of his Co­coyea Vil­lage, San Fer­nan­do home last night, more than a month af­ter he sur­vived an at­tempt on his life.

The Christ­mas edi­tion of the On the Pavers Con­certs se­ries host­ed by the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion will be back—on the pavers at Ed­u­ca­tion Tow­er on St Vin­cent Street in Port of Spain—this Fri­day, De­cem­ber 6, 2024.

In­cum­bent La Brea MP Stephen Mc Clashie yes­ter­day put on a brave face in the wake of the re­jec­tion of his can­di­da­cy for the up­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tions by the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) screen­ing com­mit­tee on Mon­day night at Bal­isi­er House.

In the ear­ly 2000s, Sher­ma Wil­son was part of a peace treaty among ri­val gang lead­ers in East Port-of-Spain or­gan­ised by then-prime min­is­ter Patrick Man­ning.

UN­AIDS Mul­ti-coun­try Di­rec­tor Dr Richard Amenyah wants lo­cal phar­ma­cies to in­vest in an­ti­retro­vi­ral ther­a­py drug treat­ment to pre­vent the spread of HIV.

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.