The Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots (PDP) says To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine owes his po­lit­i­cal ca­reer to its leader, Wat­son Duke, who gave him his start when Au­gus­tine was “a lit­tle dry foot boy from Spey­side.”

A group of ca­lyp­so­ni­ans and ca­lyp­so afi­ciona­dos are call­ing for an au­dit in­to the fi­nances of the Trin­ba­go Uni­fied Ca­lyp­so­ni­ans Or­gan­i­sa­tion (TU­CO) amid furore over sig­nif­i­cant pay­ments re­cent­ly made to se­nior ex­ec­u­tive mem­bers.

The To­ba­go Maxi Taxi Dri­vers’ As­so­ci­a­tion says there is no need for par­ents and stu­dents to wor­ry about trans­port ser­vices when the new school term starts, de­spite calls by one dri­ver for a boy­cott over un­paid fees.

Min­is­ter of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs, Sean Sobers, signed a Mem­o­ran­dum of Un­der­stand­ing (MoU) last Fri­day to en­able the cre­ation of a Co­or­di­na­tion Mech­a­nism to sup­port In­te­grat­ed Ocean Gov­er­nance in the Caribbean and North Brazil Shelf Large Ma­rine Ecosys­tems (CLME+ re­gion).

A se­cu­ri­ty guard is in sta­ble con­di­tion, af­ter be­ing stabbed sev­er­al times dur­ing an at­tack at a Crown Point fast food restau­rant on Sun­day morn­ing.

With a po­lice man­hunt un­der­way for a sus­pect in an ar­son and as­sault against a moth­er and her teenage daugh­ter, a rel­a­tive yes­ter­day ap­pealed to the sus­pect to sur­ren­der.

The sounds of steel­pan echoed across T&T yes­ter­day, as the coun­try joined glob­al cel­e­bra­tions for the third ob­ser­vance of World Steel­pan Day, of­fi­cial­ly recog­nised by the Unit­ed Na­tions in 2023.

Stu­dents and teach­ers will en­joy a longer Ju­ly/Au­gust va­ca­tion start­ing in the 2025/2026 aca­d­e­m­ic year, fol­low­ing Cab­i­net’s ap­proval of the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion’s rec­om­men­da­tion to re­vise the school year cal­en­dar.

The Min­istry of Health has con­firmed the ap­point­ment of a Com­mit­tee to in­ves­ti­gate the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing the death of six-year-old Jash­er Fran­cois at the San Fer­nan­do Teach­ing Hos­pi­tal.

The U.S.-Rus­sia sum­mit in Alas­ka is hap­pen­ing at a site where East meets West — quite lit­er­al­ly — in a place fa­mil­iar to both coun­tries as a Cold War front line of mis­sile de­fense, radar out­posts and in­tel­li­gence gath­er­ing.

The cur­rent board of the Com­mu­ni­ty-based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) is con­sid­er­ing le­gal ac­tion against its pre­de­ces­sors over an al­leged breach of fidu­cia­ry du­ty in con­nec­tion with the con­tro­ver­sial re­new­al of con­tracts on the eve of the April 28 gen­er­al elec­tion.

Lawyers rep­re­sent­ing al­leged gang leader Ra­jaee Ali have ac­cused the po­lice of fab­ri­cat­ing a pur­port­ed death threat against them.