As the world watched with bat­ed breath for the out­come of yes­ter­day’s Unit­ed States midterm elec­tions, po­lit­i­cal com­men­ta­tors warned that Trinidad and To­ba­go’s close re­la­tion­ship with the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion could come un­der greater scruti­ny in Wash­ing­ton if De­moc­rats gained con­trol of Con­gress.

Eman­ci­pa­tion Sup­port Com­mit­tee mem­ber Shaba­ka Kam­bon says Britain’s colo­nial nar­ra­tive con­tin­ues to shield the Crown from ac­count­abil­i­ty, as King Charles III stopped short of an apol­o­gy and repa­ra­tions com­mit­ment dur­ing the open­ing cer­e­mo­ny of the Com­mon­wealth Heads of Gov­ern­ment Meet­ing in An­tigua and Bar­bu­da yes­ter­day.

A se­nior po­lice of­fi­cer has re­port­ed re­ceiv­ing threats from a man charged with firearm-re­lat­ed of­fences ear­li­er this year.

A road­side re­pair end­ed in tragedy yes­ter­day when a truck me­chan­ic was killed af­ter his ve­hi­cle was struck by a garbage truck along the Au­drey Jef­fers High­way.

Sev­er­al fire sta­tions across Trinidad and To­ba­go are in need of ur­gent re­pairs, with struc­tur­al de­fi­cien­cies, mould in­fes­ta­tion and oth­er health and safe­ty con­cerns af­fect­ing the Fire Ser­vice’s abil­i­ty to ef­fec­tive­ly pro­tect the pub­lic, act­ing Chief Fire Of­fi­cer Ansar Ali has said.

A Venezue­lan na­tion­al who suf­fered two work­place in­juries while em­ployed at a me­chan­i­cal con­tract­ing com­pa­ny is ap­peal­ing to the Min­istry of Labour for as­sis­tance, say­ing he has been left with­out an in­come and is strug­gling to sup­port him­self while re­cov­er­ing.

Stan­dard Five pupils of Canaan Pres­by­ter­ian School will re­turn to class­es to­day in the church hall, near­ly three weeks af­ter a fire de­stroyed the school’s main class­room block in Dun­can Vil­lage, San Fer­nan­do.

Un­di­ag­nosed di­a­betes, un­con­trolled hy­per­ten­sion and men­tal health chal­lenges re­main among the health con­cerns af­fect­ing in­di­vid­u­als and fam­i­lies across Trinidad and To­ba­go, Health Min­is­ter Dr Lakram Bo­doe has said.

The State is set to pay com­pen­sa­tion to a man whose im­pound­ed ve­hi­cle was de­stroyed in an ar­son at­tack at the Li­cens­ing Di­vi­sion’s Ca­roni head­quar­ters in 2023. 

The dis­missal of 42 dai­ly-paid work­ers from the South-West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (SWRHA) will be con­sid­ered at a hear­ing at the Min­istry of Labour’s San Fer­nan­do of­fice to­day, as the Na­tion­al Union of Gov­ern­ment and Fed­er­at­ed Work­ers (NUGFW) seeks their re­in­state­ment.

Search­es are un­der way for Debe res­i­dent Taran “Mel­bourne” Chankar, who has not re­turned home since leav­ing work on Oc­to­ber 30.

The fam­i­ly of an oil work­er, who died af­ter sus­tain­ing se­ri­ous in­juries in an on-the-job ac­ci­dent in 2012, has scored a ma­jor vic­to­ry in their bid for in­creased com­pen­sa­tion.