A car­go ves­sel ground­ed off Monos Is­land is said to be leak­ing hy­dro­car­bons in­to the wa­ters of the Ch­aguara­mas Basin, rais­ing fears of en­vi­ron­men­tal dam­age and threats to liveli­hoods.

Af­ter spend­ing al­most two decades in prison, four men, in­clud­ing a for­mer mem­ber of the T&T De­fence Force (TTDF), have been freed of mur­der­ing a kid­napped re­al es­tate agent.

Pres­i­dent of the Es­tate Po­lice As­so­ci­a­tion (EPA) Deryck Richard­son ex­pects the man­pow­er short­age at Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port to be ad­dressed by year-end. He said it was one of the is­sues that con­tributed to se­cu­ri­ty gaps at the air­port.

The San Juan Busi­ness As­so­ci­a­tion (SJ­BA) is re­new­ing its ur­gent call to the Gov­ern­ment to stop spend­ing mon­ey on re­pairs and in­stead re­lo­cate the San Juan Fire Sta­tion to a safer, more ac­ces­si­ble site.

As the Gov­ern­ment pre­pares to de­liv­er its mid-year Bud­get re­view on June 18, sev­er­al trade unions are urg­ing that the mea­sures be peo­ple-cen­tred and aimed at ad­dress­ing long-stand­ing is­sues af­fect­ing work­ers and vul­ner­a­ble com­mu­ni­ties.

Min­is­ter of Labour, Small and Mi­cro En­ter­prise De­vel­op­ment, Sen­a­tor Leroy Bap­tiste has pledged to re­build the tri­par­tite frame­work he once fa­mous­ly walked away from as a union leader.

The Col­lege of Sci­ence, Tech­nol­o­gy and Ap­plied Arts of Trinidad and To­ba­go (COSTAATT) has re­spond­ed to nurs­ing stu­dents’ con­cerns over the re­turn to in-per­son class­es.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing a sus­pect­ed kid­nap­ping that oc­curred near the Freeport Fly­over on Mon­day morn­ing. The vic­tim has been iden­ti­fied as 53-year-old Ra­jesh Ma­haraj.

Three peo­ple were in­jured on Mon­day af­ter­noon when a man armed with a cut­lass at­tacked them at a home in Cunu­pia.

A 15-year-old stu­dent has been as­sault­ed by a group of girls at Holy Faith Con­vent in Cou­va, prompt­ing a po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tion and a probe or­dered by the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion.

For the year so far, there have been two stu­dents who were ex­pelled from school for fight­ing. Con­fir­ma­tion of this came yes­ter­day from Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath.

Fi­del McLean of Rail­way Road was not at home when the fire broke out some­time be­fore 4 p.m. De­spite his neigh­bours’ ef­forts to ex­tin­guish the blaze, the house was com­plete­ly de­stroyed.