In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tor Ali­cia Pauline Lalite-Et­ti­enne has raised con­cerns that the use of ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence (AI) in prepar­ing doc­u­ments ac­com­pa­ny­ing the 2027 Na­tion­al Bud­get may be cre­at­ing bar­ri­ers for per­sons with dis­abil­i­ties, warn­ing that tech­no­log­i­cal ad­vance­ments must not come at the ex­pense of ac­ces­si­bil­i­ty and in­clu­sion.

Res­i­dents of Loth­i­ans Road and sur­round­ing com­mu­ni­ties in Princes Town are com­plain­ing of be­ing ter­rorised by crim­i­nals, who are break­ing in­to homes and steal­ing their be­long­ings.

Park­ing rates at Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port are set to in­crease from No­vem­ber 1, with mo­torists fac­ing high­er hourly, dai­ly and month­ly charges.

A se­cu­ri­ty guard has been ac­quit­ted of rap­ing his les­bian col­league while she was in­tox­i­cat­ed.

The Oil­field Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU) will have to wait to learn the fi­nal fate of its case over the fail­ure of the for­mer board of the now-de­funct Pe­tro­le­um Com­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go (Petrotrin) to con­sult be­fore mov­ing to shut the com­pa­ny down in 2018. 

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) is seek­ing the pub­lic’s as­sis­tance in lo­cat­ing a 19-year-old man who was re­port­ed miss­ing in San Juan.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) is ap­peal­ing to the pub­lic for as­sis­tance in lo­cat­ing 23-year-old Lisa Chris­t­ian of To­ba­go.

Four men have been ar­rest­ed and sev­er­al stolen items re­cov­ered fol­low­ing a rob­bery with vi­o­lence against a 45-year-old bar pro­pri­etor in San Juan on Sun­day night.

The Sea­men and Wa­ter­front Work­ers Trade Union (SWW­TU) has re­ject­ed claims that an agree­ment was reached to pay Port-of-Spain port work­ers’ out­stand­ing back pay over five years.

The Down­town Own­ers and Mer­chants As­so­ci­a­tion (DO­MA) is warn­ing that per­sis­tent in­ci­dents of vi­o­lent crime are un­der­min­ing pub­lic con­fi­dence, dis­rupt­ing busi­ness op­er­a­tions and wors­en­ing the eco­nom­ic chal­lenges fac­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Land and Le­gal Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sad­dam Ho­sein was un­able to say how many peo­ple are em­ployed at state-owned Land­mark­TT Prop­er­ties Ltd, telling Par­lia­ment that he would have to ver­i­fy the fig­ures with his min­istry.

Tourism Sec­re­tary Zor­isha Hack­ett is ap­peal­ing to Caribbean Air­lines for more do­mes­tic flights as the an­tic­i­pa­tion builds for this week­end’s To­ba­go Car­ni­val. Speak­ing to the me­dia on Sun­day af­ter wel­com­ing pas­sen­gers from the in­au­gur­al Toron­to to To­ba­go flight, Hack­ett said the new ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port will be busy this en­tire week as thou­sands ar­rive for the an­nu­al fes­ti­val.