The griev­ing moth­er of 17-year-old Tris­t­ian Stephen, who was shot dead on Sun­day, has de­nied re­ports cir­cu­lat­ing on so­cial me­dia that her son was killed in a ware­house fol­low­ing an al­ter­ca­tion with his em­ploy­er.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Man­u­fac­tur­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTMA) is mourn­ing the death of Sean Roach of Langston Roach In­dus­tries Lim­it­ed, de­scrib­ing his pass­ing as a pro­found loss to the coun­try’s man­u­fac­tur­ing and busi­ness com­mu­ni­ties.

Two days af­ter re­sign­ing as PNM To­ba­go chair­man and quit­ting the par­ty, Nicole Hen­ry-Wal­dron has changed her mind. In a let­ter to the PNM To­ba­go ex­ec­u­tive on Sat­ur­day, Hen­ry-Wal­dron said up­on re­flec­tion, she has de­cid­ed to con­tin­ue con­tribut­ing to the par­ty and to the de­vel­op­ment of the coun­try.

Trinidad and To­ba­go may be ex­pe­ri­enc­ing a hot spell, but that will not stop parts of the coun­try from fac­ing a risk of heavy rain­fall and flood­ing this af­ter­noon.

Three weeks away from To­ba­go car­ni­val, Pan Trin­ba­go has de­cid­ed to boy­cott the an­nu­al fes­ti­val.

Af­ter al­most a year of idling its Point Lisas ni­tro­gen plant, Nu­trien is shut­ting down its Trinidad op­er­a­tions, with staff be­ing in­formed to­day that re­trench­ment is about to be­gin.

A de­ci­sion to trans­fer six men on re­mand to a di­lap­i­dat­ed and over­crowd­ed build­ing at the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison in Arou­ca is set to cost the State more than $1.8 mil­lion.

Claims of di­vi­sion, dis­con­nect and dis­cord have rocked the PNM To­ba­go Coun­cil, with two ex­ec­u­tive mem­bers re­sign­ing on the same day.

A Sun­day morn­ing dri­ve end­ed in tragedy when Joel Far­fan, 32, died and two oth­ers were in­jured af­ter the car they were trav­el­ling in plunged in­to the Cunu­pia Riv­er short­ly af­ter 6 am.

The Prime Min­is­ter’s de­ci­sion to re­as­sign re­spon­si­bil­i­ties among min­is­ters has drawn mixed re­ac­tions. Some view it as a rou­tine ad­min­is­tra­tive ad­just­ment, while oth­ers see it as a sig­nal of the Gov­ern­ment’s po­lit­i­cal and pol­i­cy pri­or­i­ties.

The High Court has ruled that the Chief of De­fence Staff act­ed un­law­ful­ly by de­clin­ing to re­ceive a rec­om­men­da­tion for the pro­mo­tion of for­mer Trinidad and To­ba­go Reg­i­ment Staff Sergeant Sher­win Rus­sell to War­rant Of­fi­cer Class II.

Sta­cy Ha­jarie had moved in­to her un­cle’s home in Bonasse Vil­lage, Ce­dros, just two weeks ear­li­er. On Sat­ur­day, she watched help­less­ly as flood­wa­ters cov­ered her fur­ni­ture and oth­er be­long­ings in the yard, which she had not yet had time to se­cure.