An on­go­ing dis­pute be­tween a sub­con­trac­tor and the main con­trac­tor at the Land­mark­TT hous­ing project in Ste Madeleine es­ca­lat­ed yes­ter­day when the sub­con­trac­tor locked the gates of the con­struc­tion site, prompt­ing po­lice in­ter­ven­tion.

Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of T&T (TSTT) chair­man Kern Dass and cor­po­rate sec­re­tary Vive­ka Par­gass have threat­ened to sue Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Work­ers’ Union (CWU) sec­re­tary gen­er­al Joanne Ogeer for defama­tion.

To­ba­go fish­er­men are de­mand­ing con­sul­ta­tion be­fore any drilling takes place in To­ba­go wa­ters.

Star Sab­ga is in “re­cov­ery mode” fol­low­ing her re­lease from house ar­rest af­ter spend­ing about two months de­tained un­der a Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO), ac­cord­ing to Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Faris Al-Rawi, who is al­so her lawyer.

A house was de­stroyed by fire at Dun­don­ald Hill, Long Cir­cu­lar, St James, ear­ly Mon­day morn­ing.

Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor and at­tor­ney Faris Al-Rawi says he has not re­ceived a pre-ac­tion pro­to­col let­ter threat­en­ing le­gal ac­tion from at­tor­neys rep­re­sent­ing Trini­bad artiste Joseph “Medz Boss” Oliviere.

Help is slow­ly trick­ling in for ail­ing wid­ow Sher­ryann Ram­nar­ine, who is strug­gling to care for her six chil­dren, two of whom have been out of school since their fa­ther died sud­den­ly last year.

Fresh spec­u­la­tion about an im­pend­ing Cab­i­net reshuf­fle is swirling, with a re­cent act­ing ap­point­ment in­volv­ing one of the min­is­ters named in a pur­port­ed Cab­i­net list adding an­oth­er lay­er to the spec­u­la­tion.

The Gov­ern­ment ap­pears head­ed for an­oth­er bat­tle in the Sen­ate over its Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions (ZOSO) leg­is­la­tion, with Op­po­si­tion and In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tors in­di­cat­ing they are pre­pared to con­sid­er an amend­ed bill while warn­ing that their sup­port will de­pend on what changes are made.

The Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) is seek­ing to have the Na­tion­al Li­brary In­for­ma­tion Sys­tem (NALIS) held in con­tempt of court over its fail­ure to re­in­state a work­er af­ter be­ing or­dered to do so by the In­dus­tri­al Court.

A 30-year-old Mar­aval woman has been grant­ed bail with sure­ty of $95,000 af­ter ap­pear­ing be­fore a Mas­ter of the High Court charged with three fraud of­fences.

A 27-year-old man was ab­duct­ed af­ter be­ing struck and as­sault­ed in Bam­boo Set­tle­ment, Bam­boo #3, Val­sayn, on Mon­day night.