Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) Roger Gas­pard has been asked to look in­to pur­port­ed con­duct of for­mer rur­al de­vel­op­ment and lo­cal gov­ern­ment min­is­ter Faris Al-Rawi, in procur­ing the three-year re­new­al deals of over 300 Com­mu­ni­ty-based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme Com­pa­ny (CEPEP) con­trac­tors.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath has de­scribed High Court Judge Mar­garet Mo­hammed’s re­fer­ral of the al­leged con­duct of for­mer rur­al de­vel­op­ment and lo­cal gov­ern­ment min­is­ter Faris Al-Rawi to the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) as “scan­dalous,” “deeply trou­bling” and “damn­ing in it­self.”

The Gov­ern­ment will not per­mit in­di­vid­u­als to mis­use stand-your-ground leg­is­la­tion to com­mit un­law­ful acts, says Min­is­ter of Le­gal Af­fairs Sad­dam Ho­sein.

Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Util­i­ties Bar­ry Padarath says crime was al­lowed to spi­ral out of con­trol in T&T over the past decade and Gov­ern­ment now needs to take dras­tic mea­sures to deal with it.

Dai­ly-paid work­ers at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal walked off the job yes­ter­day morn­ing, cit­ing un­safe con­di­tions af­ter heavy rain­fall caused the ceil­ing of their stock­room to col­lapse.

From as ear­ly as 2 am yes­ter­day, peo­ple be­gan lin­ing up out­side the Na­tion­al Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts (NA­PA) in Port-of-Spain for free med­ical ser­vices pro­vid­ed by the US Navy hos­pi­tal ship, USNS Com­fort.

The Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) has threat­ened to take the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) to the In­dus­tri­al Court over what it de­scribes as a “clear and di­rect vi­o­la­tion” of the reg­is­tered col­lec­tive agree­ment gov­ern­ing pro­mo­tions and act­ing ap­point­ments.

The con­tro­ver­sial stat­ue of Christo­pher Colum­bus, a mon­u­ment which has stood in the cap­i­tal city since 1881, has now been re­moved.

Forty-sev­en-year-old Tara Lochans­ingh, who died sav­ing her grand­daugh­ter’s life, was re­mem­bered as a hero and an an­gel dur­ing her fu­ner­al ser­vice yes­ter­day.

A Laven­tille fam­i­ly, still reel­ing from the mur­der of an 11-year-old fam­i­ly mem­ber last year, saw their kitchen de­stroyed when a chen­nette tree fell on their home yes­ter­day morn­ing.

A Ca­roni man who with­drew $17,500 cash from the bank and placed it in his car, was robbed af­ter he stopped to pur­chase items at the side of the road on the way home.

A Pi­ar­co cou­ple was robbed of $60,000 in cash on Wednes­day, as they con­duct­ed roti sales out of their house in St He­le­na Vil­lage.