Agos­ti­ni Group is bet­ting big on con­ve­nience re­tail, rolling out a  re­vamped “Presto Fresh” con­cept that blends barista cof­fee, ready-made  meals, and the fa­mil­iar Lin­da’s pas­tries cus­tomers al­ready know.  

The Gov­ern­ment’s han­dling of an off­shore oil spill in the Gulf of Paria has come un­der scruti­ny, with the Op­po­si­tion and a po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst rais­ing con­cerns about de­layed dis­clo­sure, ac­count­abil­i­ty and the po­ten­tial diplo­mat­ic fall­out in an al­ready sen­si­tive re­la­tion­ship with neigh­bour­ing Venezuela.

A red flag is now be­ing raised af­ter Su­pe­ri­or Ho­tels Ltd was giv­en the green light by the En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty (EMA) to build a 200-room ho­tel, com­plete with bun­ga­lows, vil­las, and pri­vate res­i­dences, in To­ba­go.

In­stead of cel­e­brat­ing Moth­er’s Day, a Princes Town moth­er spent yes­ter­day griev­ing the loss of her son, who was gunned down at their home the day be­fore.

An­to­nia Cain-Kafi, the moth­er of 23-month-old Aki­ni Kafi, who was killed af­ter gun­men opened fire on the car he his par­ents were trav­el­ling in last week in Bel­mont, has shown slight im­prove­ment in her con­di­tion.

A man is dead and two oth­ers are hos­pi­talised fol­low­ing a ve­hic­u­lar ac­ci­dent near the Ca­roni Fly­over dur­ing the ear­ly hours yes­ter­day.

For­mer en­er­gy min­is­ter Stu­art Young has launched a blis­ter­ing at­tack on the Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar ad­min­is­tra­tion, ac­cus­ing the Gov­ern­ment of in­com­pe­tence and mis­man­age­ment of the coun­try’s en­er­gy sec­tor fol­low­ing the shut­down of a ma­jor fer­tilis­er plant at Point Lisas, and warn­ing that fur­ther clo­sures can fol­low.

Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath says tack­ling school vi­o­lence will re­quire a co­or­di­nat­ed na­tion­al ef­fort in­volv­ing par­ents, ed­u­ca­tors, com­mu­ni­ties and stu­dents them­selves, as con­cern con­tin­ues to mount over a re­cent spate of vi­o­lent in­ci­dents in schools.

The As­so­ci­a­tion of De­nom­i­na­tion­al Boards of Ed­u­ca­tion (ADBE) is ques­tion­ing why Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath has failed to meet with the body to dis­cuss press­ing is­sues af­fect­ing schools, in­clud­ing staff short­ages, in­dis­ci­pline and sup­port for spe­cial needs stu­dents.

A for­mer deputy gen­er­al man­ag­er of the Pub­lic Trans­port Ser­vice Cor­po­ra­tion (PTSC) has been giv­en the green light to sue his for­mer em­ploy­er and its line min­istry over a de­ci­sion to ter­mi­nate his con­tract af­ter re­duc­ing his func­tions.

The State has been or­dered to pay a lit­tle over $50,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to a wildlife farmer from San­ta Cruz, who lost a herd of deer af­ter his fence was dam­aged by a con­trac­tor of the Min­istry of Works and Trans­port. 

The State has been or­dered to pay $370,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to a med­ical lab­o­ra­to­ry tech­ni­cian whose trans­fer to a re­gion­al health au­thor­i­ty was de­layed for over 16 years.