As T&T pre­pares to wel­come In­dia’s Prime Min­is­ter Naren­dra Mo­di to­day, par­ents, teach­ers and ed­u­ca­tion stake­hold­ers are not pleased with the Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to dis­rupt schools.

St Vin­cent and the Grenadines Prime Min­is­ter Dr Ralph Gon­salves ays his com­ment that T&T cur­ren­cy is like “mo­nop­oly mon­ey” was tak­en out of con­text, and he will be send­ing a copy of his speech to En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal.  

In a fi­nal court judg­ment, the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) has been or­dered to pay more than $4 mil­lion to 13 for­mer con­tract work­ers it fired af­ter the 2021 THA elec­tions.

With the PNM To­ba­go Coun­cil close to com­plet­ing its list of can­di­dates for the up­com­ing To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) elec­tions, po­lit­i­cal leader An­cil Den­nis is ask­ing sup­port­ers to give the par­ty a fresh chance.

Route 2 Maxi Taxi As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent Bren­ton Knights is call­ing for a heav­ier po­lice pres­ence on the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route (PBR) at night.

The Na­tion­al In­fra­struc­ture De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (NID­CO) has an­nounced a tem­po­rary traf­fic arrange­ment along the Con­nec­tor Road to the Elmi­na Clarke-Allen High­way. From to­day traf­fic will be re­strict­ed to a sin­gle lane as sta­bil­i­sa­tion works be­gin on a sec­tion of the road­way.

To­ba­go po­lice of­fi­cers are still search­ing for a group of men who bru­tal­ly at­tacked three su­per­mar­ket work­ers while they were asleep and made off with thou­sands of dol­lars in cash dur­ing a rob­bery ear­ly Mon­day morn­ing in Scar­bor­ough.

For­mer in­spec­tor with T&T’s Oc­cu­pa­tion­al Safe­ty and Health (OSH) Agency Safraz Ali is call­ing for ur­gent gov­ern­ment in­ter­ven­tion to ad­dress what he de­scribes as se­vere safe­ty laps­es in the oil and gas in­dus­try.

Over two years af­ter his $40,000 lump sum pen­sion cheque was fraud­u­lent­ly cashed with­out his knowl­edge, a 70-year-old se­nior cit­i­zen has re­ceived his out­stand­ing pay­ment.

More than 70 res­i­dents of Bayshore, Mara­bel­la, are fi­nal­ly back home af­ter be­ing evac­u­at­ed last Fri­day due to an oil leak that con­t­a­m­i­nat­ed the riv­er course from Tarou­ba to Mara­bel­la. 

A Preysal Sec­ondary stu­dent, who was caught en­ter­ing the com­pound with a knife, is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear in court to­day.

Po­lice are try­ing to iden­ti­fy a man who was found dead just off the La­dy Young Road, Mor­vant, on Tues­day af­ter­noon.