Health work­ers, who Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo say will not re­ceive back­pay this month, are threat­en­ing to “down tools” and per­form on­ly the “bare min­i­mum” from the week of Christ­mas in­to the new year.

As ten­sions be­tween the US and Venezuela con­tin­ue, Venezue­lan Jus­tice Min­is­ter Dios­da­do Ca­bel­lo is ac­cus­ing both T&T and Guyana of al­low­ing them­selves to be used by the Amer­i­cans to launch an at­tack against Venezuela.

Russ­ian Pres­i­dent Vladimir Putin yes­ter­day reaf­firmed his sup­port for Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro, one day af­ter the Unit­ed States’ seizure of an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela.

Three po­lice of­fi­cers charged with mul­ti­ple counts of mis­be­hav­iour in pub­lic of­fice each re­ceived bail with sure­ty set at $250,000, to cov­er all charges, when they ap­peared be­fore Jus­tice of the Peace Steven Young last Fri­day (De­cem­ber 5).

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Reg­i­ment says it is ful­ly co­op­er­at­ing with the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice in a probe in­to a re­port that in­di­vid­u­als in mil­i­tary wear robbed two peo­ple in Mal­oney.

Sev­en Tri­nis have been placed on the US “Worst of the Worst” list for crimes that in­clude rape and drug pos­ses­sion, af­ter be­ing held by Unit­ed States Im­mi­gra­tion and Cus­toms En­force­ment (ICE).

So­cial ac­tivist Abeo Jack­son is de­scrib­ing the lat­est re­quire­ment when ap­ply­ing for a Unit­ed States visa as a form of black­mail.

Just two weeks be­fore Christ­mas, a dev­as­tat­ing fire tore through the Christ­mas Store on Cipero Street in San Fer­nan­do, caus­ing mil­lions of dol­lars in loss­es.

The Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) is fac­ing pos­si­ble le­gal ac­tion af­ter al­leged­ly fail­ing to pay a south con­trac­tor for six months of waste-dis­pos­al and bulk re­moval ser­vices.

Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent Earl Elie has been of­fi­cial­ly ap­point­ed As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice and will as­sume com­mand of the To­ba­go Po­lice Di­vi­sion on De­cem­ber 23.

A doc­tor, whose in­tern­ship was ter­mi­nat­ed af­ter a video of her en­gag­ing in an al­leged­ly racist rant went vi­ral in 2018, may be re­in­stat­ed ear­ly next year.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has threat­ened to ig­nore the En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty (EMA), Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty of T&T (WASA), Town and Coun­try Plan­ning and T&T Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC), say­ing “to hell with these agen­cies be­cause their slow ap­provals are hold­ing back To­ba­go’s de­vel­op­ment.”