A chal­lenge has been met­ed out to the Tran­sit Po­lice by the road safe­ty Non-Gov­ern­men­tal Or­gan­i­sa­tion (NGO) Ar­rive Alive to en­force the law to unau­tho­rised dri­vers on the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route “with­out fear and favour.”

It’s pre­ma­ture to an­swer con­jec­ture on whether Paria Fu­el Trad­ing Com­pa­ny’s con­tract for the re­cent sale of fu­el to Aru­ba was breached, At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Faris Al Rawi said yes­ter­day.

Tens of thou­sands of peo­ple who are vi­su­al­ly im­paired in some way will soon be able to ac­cess pub­lished works from the Na­tion­al Li­brary and In­for­ma­tion Sys­tems Au­thor­i­ty (NALIS), which will con­vert in­for­ma­tion for their use.

When Lor­net­ta Jan and her hus­band left Trinidad and To­ba­go for Cana­da on March 8, they planned to be back home in a month. They went to Ot­tawa to get med­ical at­ten­tion that is not avail­able here.

What was meant as a four-part video se­ries to high­light a ma­jor se­cu­ri­ty breach at the com­pound of the Pub­lic Trans­port Ser­vice Cor­po­ra­tion (PTSC) where a bus can be eas­i­ly stolen, among his col­leagues turned out to be a pub­lic spec­ta­cle when it was leaked in the pub­lic's do­main via so­cial me­dia.
Speak­ing with the Guardian Me­dia on Tues­day, the PTSC em­ploy­ee, who strapped his cam­era phone on his arm and record­ed how easy it was for some­one to steal a bus from City Gate, said he did it to show his col­leagues that a re­cent pro­to­col change by man­age­ment, in fact, turned out to be a "big loop­hole."
The em­ploy­ee said pre­vi­ous­ly the bus­es go through a se­ries of safe­ty and se­cu­ri­ty checks to­geth­er with dri­vers but now, two weeks ago that pro­ce­dure was stopped.
"I was as­signed a bus car­ry­ing a fleet num­ber HMC13. When as­signed we have to do a vi­su­al to en­sure tyres and mir­rors are up to mark and af­ter this is pleased with, the bus is then tak­en to the pro­fes­sion­als in the front line, the en­gi­neer­ing de­part­ment, to do a me­chan­i­cal check and if the en­gi­neers are sat­is­fied that the bus is road­wor­thy then the dri­ver is to pro­ceed to the se­cu­ri­ty for an­oth­er check to en­sure that noth­ing is leav­ing the com­pound with the bus or the dri­ver is not try­ing to steal any­thing then the dri­ver can make his way to the cue where he would load his pas­sen­gers."

The Di­rec­tor of the Pan Amer­i­can Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion, Caris­sa F. Eti­enne, has called on coun­tries to come to­geth­er, to ad­dress health, so­cial and eco­nom­ic emer­gen­cies, as the nov­el coro­n­avirus COVID-19 pan­dem­ic ex­pands rapid­ly in the Amer­i­c­as.

A 41-year-old man from San­ta Cruz was ar­rest­ed for pos­ses­sion of a firearm and am­mu­ni­tion dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise on Mon­day.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Ser­vice (TTMPS) has been aug­ment­ed with the ad­di­tion of 115 new Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Con­sta­bles, who took the oath of of­fice at the Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Train­ing Acad­e­my in Mara­bel­la, yes­ter­day, Mon­day 11 May 2020.

Use of the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route by taxis (‘H’ ve­hi­cles), be­tween the Curepe and Mt Hope in­ter­sec­tions, has end­ed with ef­fect from to­day Tues­day 12th May 2020.

A po­lice of­fi­cer, with 23 years of ser­vice in the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice, was crushed to death on Mon­day night, when a tree fell on his home at Mt D'Or.

The gov­ern­ment of this coun­try has spent $934 mil­lion so far, on treat­ing with the COVID-19 Pan­dem­ic.

On­ly one COVID-19 pa­tient, de­scribed as “low risk” and “am­bu­la­to­ry”, re­mains at the Cau­ra Hos­pi­tal, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est up­date from the Min­istry of Health.