A home­less man has tak­en over the chil­dren’s play zone at Irv­ing Park in San Fer­nan­do, leav­ing fam­i­lies too fright­ened to use the space.

A tar­get­ed an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion in the South­ern Di­vi­sion on Fri­day led to the ar­rest of three sus­pects as po­lice ramped up ef­forts to tack­le vi­o­lent and drug-re­lat­ed of­fences.

A 20-year-old woman was robbed and forced out of a car af­ter she board­ed a ve­hi­cle she be­lieved was le­git­i­mate trans­porta­tion ear­ly Fri­day morn­ing.

A 31-year-old man was killed and an­oth­er man wound­ed af­ter a gun­man opened fire out­side King Style Bar in San Juan on Fri­day night.

There will be a big­ger elec­torate and changes in two seats for To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly polls.

Rur­al De­vel­op­ment Min­is­ter Kadi­jah Ameen says an in­ter­min­is­te­r­i­al team met with the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) on names the team flagged in the EBC’s 14th re­port - and the EBC sub­se­quent­ly found 29 er­rors - but Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) MP Kei­th Scot­land has said the meet­ings vi­o­lat­ed the Con­sti­tu­tion.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo says on­ly the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) will re­ceive back­pay pay­ments this year.

The Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Work­ers’ Union (CWU) has se­cured an eleven per cent wage in­crease for work­ers at the Hilton Trinidad and Con­fer­ence Cen­tre, con­clud­ing two long-out­stand­ing col­lec­tive bar­gain­ing pe­ri­ods dat­ing back to 2019 with the com­pa­ny.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo is stand­ing by his de­ci­sion to amend the Liquor Li­cences Act to up­date the gam­ing tax fee and re­vise du­ties payable for liquor li­cences un­der the Sec­ond Sched­ule.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo has an­nounced that the Board of In­land Rev­enue will be re­con­sti­tut­ed and ex­pand­ed to nine com­mis­sion­ers as part of amend­ments to the In­come Tax Act.

Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials have sig­nalled a stronger push to curb su­per­mar­ket price goug­ing, amid mount­ing pub­lic frus­tra­tion that of­fi­cial in­fla­tion fig­ures do not match what con­sumers face at the check­out counter.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine says To­ba­go has a rep­u­ta­tion prob­lem and the is­land must fix it.