The State has been or­dered to pay al­most $160,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to a man who was beat­en by po­lice and Coast Guard of­fi­cers dur­ing a traf­fic stop more than a decade ago.

A judge, a fa­ther, a sports­man and a gen­tle­man were among the de­scrip­tions of Ap­pel­late Judge Prakash Moo­sai, who re­tired af­ter near­ly three decades on the Bench.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal has dis­missed a claim that NGC Green owes CNG op­er­a­tors more than $450,000 each in elec­tric­i­ty re­im­burse­ments. But Pe­tro­le­um Deal­ers As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent Robin Narayns­ingh said elec­tric­i­ty costs have long been a con­tentious is­sue among deal­ers and warned that CNG op­er­a­tions may not be sus­tain­able.

Trinidad and To­ba­go is mak­ing “re­al progress” in com­bat­ing hu­man traf­fick­ing, with more pros­e­cu­tions, land­mark con­vic­tions and ma­jor law en­force­ment op­er­a­tions, a se­nior Unit­ed States of­fi­cial said yes­ter­day.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has de­fend­ed the Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to re­tain the ex­ist­ing San Juan Fire Sta­tion rather than in­vest in a new fa­cil­i­ty, de­spite re­newed calls from the San Juan Busi­ness As­so­ci­a­tion (SJ­BA) for a mod­ern sta­tion to serve the ex­pand­ing com­mer­cial dis­trict.

At­tor­ney-at-law and for­mer po­lice of­fi­cer Tara­dath Singh was killed this evening in Char­lieville.

The Food and Agri­cul­ture Or­ga­ni­za­tion of the Unit­ed Na­tions (FAO) and the En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty (EMA) have demon­strat­ed how bird-band­ing and da­ta col­lec­tion are help­ing to pro­tect To­ba­go’s bio­di­ver­si­ty, with par­tic­u­lar fo­cus on the threat­ened White-tailed Sabrew­ing hum­ming­bird.

A 49-year-old Guayagua­yare man has been charged with mur­der in con­nec­tion with the chop­ping death of a 43-year-old res­i­dent near his home last week.

Ka­ia Sealy’s suf­fi­cien­cy hear­ing over eight charges lev­eled against her in re­la­tion to a po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing in Jan­u­ary which claimed the life of her part­ner has been post­poned to next year.

A 21-year-old Diego Mar­tin man has been charged with as­sault with in­tent to rob fol­low­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to an in­ci­dent in­volv­ing a Pe­tit Val­ley woman last month.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Na­tion­al Nurs­ing As­so­ci­a­tion (TTNNA) is call­ing for an in­de­pen­dent in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the res­ig­na­tion of the South-West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (SWRHA) Board, warn­ing that pro­longed lead­er­ship un­cer­tain­ty could un­der­mine health­care de­liv­ery and pub­lic con­fi­dence.

The Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) has giv­en in­struc­tions to charge a 20-year-old man with the mur­ders of Rosan­na and Ele­na Ram­lal.