The fam­i­lies of six fish­er­men miss­ing aboard the fish­ing ves­sel St Vin­cent VII are call­ing for an in­ten­si­fied re­gion­al res­cue ef­fort and help from the T&T Gov­ern­ment, say­ing they are run­ning out of time as the search con­tin­ues with no con­firmed signs of their loved ones.

A flight sim­u­la­tion will be held be­fore the new ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port ter­mi­nal is of­fi­cial­ly opened.

Work­ers of the Na­tion­al Pro­gramme for the Up­keep of Pub­lic Spaces (NPUPS) are de­mand­ing their pay af­ter work­ing for sev­er­al fort­nights with­out com­pen­sa­tion.

The pres­i­dent of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Farm­ers’ Union, Shi­raz Khan, is call­ing for ur­gent face-to-face dis­cus­sions with the Gov­ern­ment and Nestlé over the com­pa­ny’s planned ex­it from the lo­cal milk col­lec­tion in­dus­try, say­ing dairy farm­ers are still be­ing kept in the dark about the rea­sons be­hind the move.

Days be­fore the 36th an­niver­sary of the 1990 at­tempt­ed coup, DCP in charge of Ad­min­is­tra­tion Ju­nior Ben­jamin says he is con­fi­dent in the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice’s abil­i­ty to ef­fec­tive­ly counter and re­spond to any large-scale ter­ror threat, sim­i­lar to what was ob­served decades ear­li­er.

A High Court judge has ruled that the Cus­toms and Ex­cise Di­vi­sion (CED) act­ed with­in the law when it chal­lenged the de­clared val­ue of im­port­ed goods and re­quired de­posits dur­ing gen­uine val­u­a­tion dis­putes.

Af­ter more than 90 years of car­ing for the el­der­ly, the JC Mc­Don­ald Home for the Aged in San Fer­nan­do is ap­peal­ing for help as it strug­gles to meet month­ly ex­pens­es, pay staff and car­ry out much-need­ed re­pairs.

The pub­lic’s as­sis­tance con­tin­ues to be sought to iden­ti­fy the body of a man found in the St Joseph Riv­er last Fri­day.

A Sea Lots man re­mained ward­ed in crit­i­cal con­di­tion yes­ter­day af­ter he was shot by a gun­man in the area.

Point Fortin Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice re­cov­ered sev­er­al mar­i­jua­na-in­fused cig­a­rettes, mar­i­jua­na and cam­ou­flage hats dur­ing a pa­trol near a beach on Sun­day night.

The search for sur­vivors con­tin­ued in Guyana Mon­day af­ter a fer­ry, be­lieved to be over­loaded, cap­sized over the week­end, with the gov­ern­ment not­ing that at least 35 of the 67 peo­ple res­cued were not on the man­i­fest list.

The Law As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (LATT) is urg­ing mem­bers of the pub­lic to re­frain from mak­ing per­son­al at­tacks against Court of Ap­peal judges fol­low­ing the court’s re­cent rul­ing in the Hadeed case.