To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA)Tourism, An­tiq­ui­ties and Cre­ative In­dus­tries Sec­re­tary Zor­isha Hack­ett says the key to the is­land’s tourism suc­cess lies in build­ing a sol­id plan.

De­clar­ing that Trinidad and To­ba­go is on the verge of an “en­er­gy and eco­nom­ic boom,” the Oil­fields Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU) signed a train­ing agree­ment with man­age­ment con­sult­ing firm Col­lec­tive En­er­gies Ltd (CENER­GY) yes­ter­day to pre­pare work­ers for the pro­posed restart of the Petrotrin re­fin­ery and wider ex­pan­sion in the en­er­gy sec­tor.

Mur­der and gang-re­lat­ed charges against sev­en men and a woman have been dis­missed over de­lays in pros­e­cut­ing the case. 

A 21-year-old man from Erin has been sen­tenced to 18 years in prison af­ter ad­mit­ting to mur­der­ing a Venezue­lan mi­grant af­ter com­mit­ting a rob­bery in 2022.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) has set­tled out­stand­ing Cost of Liv­ing Al­lowance (CO­LA) pay­ments with trade unions rep­re­sent­ing work­ers at the State util­i­ty com­pa­ny.

A for­mer man­ag­er of the Is­land Club Group of Com­pa­nies has been freed of fraud due to de­lays in pros­e­cut­ing him. 

The Min­istry of Fi­nance has been giv­en a month to dis­close in­for­ma­tion re­lat­ed to the le­gal fees paid by pub­lic bod­ies un­der its con­trol and su­per­vi­sion be­tween 2015 and 2022. 

Min­is­ter of For­eign and CARI­COM Af­fairs Sean Sobers met with Unit­ed States As­sis­tant Sec­re­tary of War Joseph Hu­mire at the De­part­ment of War in Wash­ing­ton D.C. on Thurs­day as Trinidad and To­ba­go and the Unit­ed States dis­cussed de­fence and se­cu­ri­ty co­op­er­a­tion.

To­ba­go po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the death of a three-month-old ba­by in Char­lot­teville who was found un­re­spon­sive at home last Sat­ur­day, Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent Rod­hill Kirk has con­firmed.

Guyana on Thurs­day de­mand­ed that Venezuela in­ves­ti­gate what it said were two re­cent shoot­ings tar­get­ing Guyanese troops along their shared bor­der, in­clud­ing one that wound­ed a sol­dier.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) is urg­ing the pub­lic to al­low of­fi­cial in­ves­ti­ga­tions to take their course rather than en­gag­ing in what it de­scribed as a “tri­al” on so­cial me­dia, amid the con­tro­ver­sy sur­round­ing Holy Name Con­vent Port of Spain prin­ci­pal Sis­ter Re­nee Hall.

A for­mer man­ag­er of the Is­land Club Group of Com­pa­nies has been freed of fraud charges due to de­lays in pros­e­cut­ing him.