The moth­er of a Holy Faith Con­vent stu­dent who was sav­age­ly beat­en out­side the school gates on Tues­day is call­ing for the as­sailants to face the full brunt of the law.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath has urged T&TEC work­ers to “hold strain,” af­ter they staged a protest yes­ter­day de­mand­ing the res­ig­na­tion of the com­pa­ny’s board of di­rec­tors.

There is no threat of oil con­t­a­m­i­na­tion in Ch­aguara­mas from the car­go ves­sel Hein, which is still par­tial­ly sub­merged af­ter it ran aground on the south­ern side of Monos Is­land.

A mu­nic­i­pal po­lice of­fi­cer has won his ap­peal over the de­ci­sion of the Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er to refuse him a per­son­al firearm user’s li­cence (FUL).

A so­cial me­dia ac­tivist has been giv­en the green light to sue the Of­fice of the Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er over its fail­ure to re­spond to a re­quest for dis­clo­sure of in­for­ma­tion re­lat­ed to a British law firm that was re­tained by the for­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Gov­ern­ment to as­sist in probes in­to al­leged cor­rup­tion in their pre­de­ces­sors’ tenure. 

As the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) pre­pares for To­ba­go’s bud­get day on June 23, its Sec­re­tary of Fi­nance, Trade and the Econ­o­my has re­vealed a sig­nif­i­cant shift and new ap­proach in how the fis­cal pri­or­i­ties and re­spon­si­bil­i­ties will be pre­sent­ed.

Of­fi­cials are cur­rent­ly search­ing for two teenage wards of the St Jude’s Home for Girls, Diego Mar­tin, who re­port­ed­ly ran away from their care­givers dur­ing sep­a­rate out­ings ear­li­er this week.

A Mor­vant woman, who op­er­ates as a TT Rideshare dri­ver, was ab­duct­ed and robbed of her car and valu­ables by peo­ple pre­tend­ing to be cus­tomers on Tues­day.

West­ern Di­vi­sion po­lice were yes­ter­day search­ing for a man who in­jured his girl­friend dur­ing an ar­gu­ment and left her ly­ing on the road bleed­ing.

Se­cu­ri­ty per­son­nel as­signed to the TSTT EMR Ex­change in Port-of-Spain, shot at two armed men who broke in­to the fa­cil­i­ty on Tues­day.

A chef who could no longer work af­ter she fell and broke her wrist has set­tled her neg­li­gence law­suit against the Trinidad Hilton and Con­fer­ence Cen­tre.

The Grena­da gov­ern­ment record­ed a de­cline of more than EC$90 mil­lion (One EC dol­lar=US$0.37 cents) in rev­enue for the first four months of this year as com­pared with the same pe­ri­od last year, ac­cord­ing to fig­ures pub­lished by the Min­istry of Fi­nance.