Tu­na­puna Pi­ar­co Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion chair­man Josi­ah Austin says he is hop­ing that the Gov­ern­ment will see the im­por­tance of lo­cal gov­ern­ment re­form and that it will al­so be able to pro­vide the fi­nances nec­es­sary to strength­en lo­cal gov­er­nance. 

The Min­istry of the Peo­ple, So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices is set to pro­vide im­me­di­ate aid to De­bra Woods, a res­i­dent of East­ern Quar­ry, Laven­tille, who suf­fered mi­nor in­juries on May 18 when a re­tain­ing wall ad­ja­cent to her prop­er­ty gave way amid pro­longed heavy rain, crash­ing down on­to her home and caus­ing ex­ten­sive struc­tur­al dam­age.

Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots (PDP) leader Wat­son Duke claims the peo­ple of To­ba­go didn’t vote for the To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP) in the last gen­er­al elec­tion, but in­stead for the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress.

With the open­ing of Par­lia­ment set for this Fri­day, Con­gress of the Peo­ple (COP) leader Prakash Ra­mad­har is still in the dark about his po­ten­tial role in the up­com­ing ses­sion.

Ap­prox­i­mate­ly 350 guests from sev­er­al sec­tors, along with school stu­dents, will be at­tend­ing to­mor­row’s cer­e­mo­ni­al open­ing of the first ses­sion of the 13th Par­lia­ment.

A 32-year-old man from Cara­pichaima has been freed of rap­ing a teenag­er in 2016 af­ter she re­fused to tes­ti­fy against him. 

A pop­u­lar ex­tra lessons teacher from West­moor­ings is set to re­ceive over $800,000 in com­pen­sa­tion from two doc­tors, in­clud­ing a for­mer stu­dent, for defama­tion. 

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) has with­drawn its ap­peal over a judge’s de­ci­sion to up­hold a law­suit from an em­ploy­ee, who was tasked with in­ves­ti­gat­ing a col­league based on a com­plaint, for which for­mer Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Mar­vin Gon­za­les was a wit­ness. 

Min­is­ter of the Peo­ple, So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices, Van­dana Mo­hit, says her min­istry is “ac­tive­ly ad­dress­ing” re­ports of el­der abuse re­ceived by the Di­vi­sion of Age­ing.

Rel­a­tives of Sher­az Ali, 64, told po­lice they don’t know his where­abouts and calls to his cell­phone have gone unan­swered. Po­lice said his broth­er re­port­ed that Ali was last seen in his brown B-14 ve­hi­cle around 9 am at Seukaran Street, Siparia. He said his broth­er usu­al­ly fre­quents the Fyz­abad, Oropouche and Siparia ar­eas and walks with a limp due to a bro­ken an­kle.

Armed men opened fire on the op­er­a­tor of a Freeport veg­etable stall on Tues­day, min­utes af­ter in­struct­ing her to close the place down.

A San­ta Cruz man was robbed of $35,000 in cash af­ter ban­dits rammed his car on the Port-of-Spain Fly­over, forc­ing him to pull over.