Al­though six men were ar­rest­ed and ques­tioned in con­nec­tion with last Sat­ur­day’s mil­lion-dol­lar ar­son at­tack at the TSTT com­pound in Laven­tille, po­lice are yet to lay any charges against any of them.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has be­gun train­ing of­fi­cers who will take part in op­er­a­tions un­der the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Act, as well as those who will lead teams when the act comes in­to ef­fect.

At­tor­ney, in­dus­tri­al re­la­tions spe­cial­ist and for­mer Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) pres­i­dent Clyde Weath­er­head says the Gov­ern­ment can­not uni­lat­er­al­ly dis­burse the pro­posed 40 per cent cash com­po­nent of pub­lic ser­vants’ wage ar­rears with­out an agree­ment with the union.

While res­i­dents of Wel­come Road, Cunu­pia, can fi­nal­ly en­joy a smooth dri­ve to and from their homes af­ter years of dust and pot­holes, the min­is­ter with re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for road re­pairs says oth­er com­mu­ni­ties will have to be pa­tient.

Na­tion­al 4-H Coun­cil pres­i­dent Natasha Lee has en­cour­aged young peo­ple to em­brace agri­cul­ture, food se­cu­ri­ty and sus­tain­able prac­tices as the or­gan­i­sa­tion con­tin­ues to pro­mote school and com­mu­ni­ty gar­den­ing.

The Min­istry of Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion plans to in­tro­duce a cus­tomer ser­vice train­ing pro­gramme for staff at Li­cens­ing Of­fices na­tion­wide.

Trinidad and To­ba­go has vot­ed along­side the Unit­ed States against a Unit­ed Na­tions res­o­lu­tion call­ing for an end to the decades-long Amer­i­can em­bar­go on Cu­ba, mark­ing a de­par­ture from the coun­try’s long­stand­ing for­eign pol­i­cy po­si­tion.

At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie has met with a del­e­ga­tion from the Unit­ed States Em­bassy to dis­cuss hu­man traf­fick­ing and op­por­tu­ni­ties for con­tin­ued col­lab­o­ra­tion to com­bat the crime in Trinidad and To­ba­go and the wider Caribbean.

Is­raelis faced po­lit­i­cal un­cer­tain­ty Wednes­day af­ter no clear win­ner ap­peared to have emerged from a high-turnout elec­tion. The path to form­ing a gov­ern­ment is fraught for Prime Min­is­ter Ben­jamin Ne­tanyahu and his main op­po­nent, and an­oth­er round of elec­tions can­not be ruled out.

They have been iden­ti­fied as spa own­er Kavi­ta De­osaran, 55, of Mid­way Park, Freeport, and cus­tomer Cheryl Dixon, 64, of La Croix Street, Cou­va.

The U.N. Gen­er­al As­sem­bly con­demned the U.S. eco­nom­ic em­bar­go of Cu­ba for the 34th year on Wednes­day, even as Wash­ing­ton’s cam­paign to in­flu­ence the out­come led to a num­ber of coun­tries vot­ing against the res­o­lu­tion or sit­ting out the de­ci­sion for the first time.

Cana­da has reaf­firmed its com­mit­ment to strength­en­ing mar­itime se­cu­ri­ty across the Caribbean through re­gion­al part­ner­ships, to im­prove mar­itime do­main aware­ness, en­hance in­for­ma­tion shar­ing and op­er­a­tional readi­ness, and dis­rupt traf­fick­ing net­works that ex­ploit the re­gion’s mar­itime space.