For­mer at­tor­ney gen­er­al Anand Ram­lo­gan is ap­peal­ing to the Prime Min­is­ter and Fi­nance Min­is­ter to con­sid­er al­low­ing cit­i­zens who were un­able to con­vert their $100 bills for the poly­mer notes.

Cu­ba's Am­bas­sador to Trinidad and To­ba­go has re­ject­ed re­cent ac­cu­sa­tions against for­mer Cuban pres­i­dent Raúl Cas­tro, de­scrib­ing them as base­less and part of ef­forts by the Unit­ed States to jus­ti­fy in­creased hos­til­i­ty to­wards the Caribbean na­tion.

Chair­man of the State-owned Guaracara Re­fin­ery Com­pa­ny Ltd (GR­CL), Gow­tam Ma­haraj, says the shut­tered Pointe-a-Pierre re­fin­ery is at­tract­ing re­newed in­ter­na­tion­al in­ter­est fol­low­ing the in­ter­na­tion­al rat­ing agency Moody’s de­ci­sion to up­grade Trinidad and To­ba­go’s sov­er­eign eco­nom­ic out­look from neg­a­tive to sta­ble while af­firm­ing its Ba2 cred­it rat­ing.

A for­mer em­ploy­ee of the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) has lost an ap­peal over the dis­missal of her case chal­leng­ing the qual­i­ty of rep­re­sen­ta­tion she re­ceived from the Oil­field Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU). 

Ma­jor­i­ty State-owned telecom­mu­ni­ca­tion provider Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TSTT) has won its ap­peal over the fail­ure of the Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TATT) to con­sult be­fore is­su­ing price caps for in­ter­con­nec­tion ser­vices be­tween ser­vice providers.

Some­where in the dark­ness off Trinidad and To­ba­go’s coast, ghost sharks drift through cold wa­ters, strange oc­to­pus­es cling to an­cient sponges and crea­tures with nick­names like the “head­less chick­en mon­ster” roam a world few hu­mans have ever seen.

Stu­dents of Cedar Grove Pri­vate School are ex­pect­ed to re­turn to their class­rooms to­day, af­ter a two-week clo­sure prompt­ed by com­plaints that rats were liv­ing on the com­pound.

Every heavy rain show­er brings fresh con­cern for some fam­i­lies in Ridge­wood Gar­dens, Gol­con­da, as rain­wa­ter rush­es through a col­lapsed drain be­hind their homes, widen­ing cracks and wash­ing away soil.

Scouts from eight groups across the South Cen­tral Scout Dis­trict marched through San Fer­nan­do re­cent­ly, car­ry­ing a mes­sage of en­vi­ron­men­tal stew­ard­ship, urg­ing cit­i­zens to help safe­guard the plan­et for fu­ture gen­er­a­tions.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice, Aman Bains, 27, of Sur­rey, re­port­ed that at around 10.30 pm on Thurs­day, he was walk­ing along Ari­api­ta Av­enue near Hamil­ton Hold­er Street, Port of Spain, when he was ap­proached by four masked men and one un­masked woman.

Po­lice are seek­ing the pub­lic’s as­sis­tance in lo­cat­ing 63-year-old An­dre Moses, who has been re­port­ed miss­ing.

An air­craft which left St Vin­cent and the Grenadines en route to To­ba­go on Fri­day has gone miss­ing.