Min­is­ter of Plan­ning, Eco­nom­ic Af­fairs and De­vel­op­ment, Kennedy Swarats­ingh, says no men­tion was made about the dis­burse­ment of fund col­lect­ed via prop­er­ty tax. In­stead, he said in­for­ma­tion was giv­en about the pay­ment count and pay­ments re­ceived for each cor­po­ra­tion.

The Min­is­ter of For­eign Af­fairs is de­fend­ing an agree­ment signed be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go and the Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates, al­low­ing diplo­mat­ic and of­fi­cial pass­port hold­ers to en­ter the UAE visa-free. Ac­cord­ing to a re­lease from the UAE For­eign Af­fairs Min­istry, UAE cit­i­zens hold­ing diplo­mat­ic, spe­cial, or­di­nary, and “mis­sion” pass­ports are now ex­empt from the visa re­quire­ment for en­try to T&T.

Ef­forts to bring home Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­als strand­ed in de­ten­tion camps over­seas have stalled, as the Repa­tri­a­tion Com­mit­tee says it is still await­ing di­rec­tion from the new In­ter-Min­is­te­r­i­al Com­mit­tee es­tab­lished by Gov­ern­ment.

T&T’s mul­ti­cul­tur­al fab­ric con­tin­ues to shine as a “liv­ing ex­am­ple” of how di­verse com­mu­ni­ties can co-ex­ist and flour­ish to­geth­er.

Like the flag she joy­ful­ly waved on stage, emo­tions rose and swayed in re­mem­brance, as many gath­ered to bid farewell to cul­tur­al icon Valar­ie Green.

A San Fer­nan­do man has been slapped with six months in prison for bit­ing off a piece of a se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cer’s fin­ger dur­ing a scuf­fle last week.

The in­ci­dent oc­curred around 10.30 am at the bas­ket­ball court in John John, Quar­ry Road, Laven­tille.

Res­i­dents of Mt D'or are set to get a boost in their wa­ter sup­ply in the com­ing weeks af­ter a promise by the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty’s (WASA) act­ing Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer, Jee­van Joseph, to pro­cure a new pump for the area.

For­mer Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly pres­i­dent and Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­al Den­nis Fran­cis is call­ing for ur­gent re­form of the UN Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil, warn­ing that its struc­tur­al in­ad­e­qua­cies have fu­elled in­ac­tion in the face of hu­man­i­tar­i­an crises world­wide.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) says it is now wait­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to fi­nalise the 2020 to 2023 salary set­tle­ment for teach­ers.

The Pales­tin­ian gov­ern­ment has is­sued a state­ment pledg­ing to im­ple­ment re­forms called for in the pro­posed plan for peace in Gaza sub­mit­ted by U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump.

The Po­lice Ser­vice is re­port­ing that the aer­i­al de­liv­ery of pro­hib­it­ed items in­to the Arou­ca Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison was suc­cess­ful­ly pre­vent­ed, thanks to a “co­or­di­nat­ed, in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tion be­tween 7:00 pm on Sun­day and 5:45 am to­day.”