A Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Con­sta­ble who was in­jured af­ter he fell off a de­fec­tive chair in a po­lice post at the Port-of-Spain Cen­tral Mar­ket six years ago has been award­ed $227,000 in dam­ages and le­gal costs.

Two pupils from the Fyz­abad Sec­ondary School have been sus­pend­ed for se­vere­ly beat­ing a Form one boy on the com­pound on Fri­day.

School chil­dren in San Fer­nan­do are be­ing urged to be vig­i­lant af­ter a 15-year-old school­boy was robbed while wait­ing for his par­ents.

The Li­cens­ing of­fice lo­cat­ed at Wright­son Road, Port-of-Spain is back open on Thurs­day af­ter be­ing closed for the last two days.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has re­mind­ed mem­bers of the pub­lic to be cau­tious of false in­for­ma­tion sent via so­cial me­dia, which can cause un­nec­es­sary pan­ic and anx­i­ety.

Diesel fu­el pow­ers the bulk of this coun­try’s com­mer­cial trans­porta­tion in­dus­try, both on land and at sea, but the high sul­phur con­tent is said to be de­stroy­ing the en­gines of mod­ern ve­hi­cles.

There was an air of un­cer­tain­ty among Unipet em­ploy­ees, not on­ly about their jobs but about the sup­ply of fu­el to the var­i­ous sta­tions in South Trinidad.

The Oil­field Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU) has been no­ti­fied that 178 out of the to­tal unionised work­force of 286 work­ers at Unilever Caribbean Ltd (UCL) work­ers are be­ing sent home.

The mar­gin­al seat of San­gre Grande North­west which the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) con­trolled fol­low­ing the 2016 lo­cal gov­ern­ment elec­tion was switched to the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) in Mon­day’s polls, as burgess­es cit­ed lack of rep­re­sen­ta­tion that drove them to change from red to yel­low.

Re­cent deaths caused by the in­fluen­za virus are con­sis­tent with re­cent years and have been con­fined to the el­der­ly, chil­dren five months to six years and peo­ple suf­fer­ing from crit­i­cal or de­bil­i­tat­ing ill­ness­es, PNM Sen­a­tor Clarence Ramb­harat said yes­ter­day.

Af­ter four years and ten months of tri­al, 11 po­lice of­fi­cers charged with mis­be­hav­iour in pub­lic of­fice, 10 of them were set free yes­ter­day, while the lone fe­male Spe­cial Re­serve Of­fi­cer was com­mit­ted to stand tri­al at the next sit­ting of the As­sizes by a San­gre Grande mag­is­trate.

Hun­dreds of mo­torists were af­fect­ed yes­ter­day by the clo­sure of sev­er­al Unipets ser­vice sta­tions across the coun­try yes­ter­day.