The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) will hold elec­tions for its PNM To­ba­go Coun­cil on April 19, as the par­ty be­gins a re­build­ing process fol­low­ing its sweep­ing elec­toral de­feat in To­ba­go ear­li­er this year.

Hun­dreds of work­ers from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Na­tion­al Nurs­es As­so­ci­a­tion (TTNNA), Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) and rep­re­sen­ta­tives from the Con­tract and Gen­er­al Work­ers Trade Union staged a lunchtime protest yes­ter­day as they con­demned the gov­ern­ment’s fail­ure to pay long-over­due salary in­creas­es.

The Min­istry of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty says the Mi­grant Reg­is­tra­tion Frame­work is be­ing im­ple­ment­ed in three phas­es as part of a process to reg­is­ter mi­grants.

For­mer work­ers of the Im­mi­gra­tion De­ten­tion Cen­tre (IDC), in­clud­ing re­tired po­lice of­fi­cers, have giv­en Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der sev­en work­ing days to ad­dress long-stand­ing com­plaints about un­paid gra­tu­ity and oth­er ben­e­fits.

Fa­cil­i­ties have been es­tab­lished to as­sist the 324 Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­als re­sid­ing in the Mid­dle East in com­mu­ni­cat­ing with the Gov­ern­ment.

As ten­sions in­ten­si­fy across the Mid­dle East fol­low­ing mil­i­tary strikes in­volv­ing the Unit­ed States, Is­rael and Iran, at­tor­ney Nafeesa Mo­hammed is call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to ur­gent­ly as­sist Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­als seek­ing to leave the re­gion.

A woman who has spent 30 years in prison for help­ing to kill two men in sep­a­rate in­ci­dents in 1993 has failed in her bid to have a judge re­view the life sen­tence she re­ceived for the death of one vic­tim.

Frus­trat­ed Table­land res­i­dents say they will give the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) two weeks to im­prove their wa­ter sup­ply, af­ter Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Pub­lic Util­i­ties Clyde El­der apol­o­gised for the long­stand­ing short­age dur­ing a vis­it to the com­mu­ni­ty yes­ter­day.

A man was ar­rest­ed af­ter po­lice seized nar­cotics with an es­ti­mat­ed street val­ue of more than $23 mil­lion dur­ing an ex­er­cise in the Fyz­abad dis­trict on Thurs­day.

The Con­gress of the Peo­ple (COP) has ex­pressed sup­port for the Gov­ern­ment’s de­c­la­ra­tion of a State of Emer­gency, say­ing the mea­sure al­lows broad­er crime re­duc­tion strate­gies to take root while pro­tect­ing law-abid­ing cit­i­zens.

A 75-year-old man died af­ter com­ing in­to con­tact with a high-ten­sion wire while car­ry­ing out work on the roof of a church in Pe­nal.

A 21-year-old Point Fortin man was hos­pi­talised with mul­ti­ple gun­shot wounds af­ter an ear­ly-morn­ing shoot­ing in Guapo.