Sev­er­al ar­eas in South Trinidad ex­pe­ri­enced flash flood­ing on Mon­day fol­low­ing heavy show­ers, leav­ing many peo­ple strand­ed and forc­ing res­i­dents to clean slush, mud and wa­ter from their prop­er­ties.

The Min­istry of Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion is in­ten­si­fy­ing its na­tion­al road safe­ty agen­da fol­low­ing a string of week­end fa­tal­i­ties, with Min­is­ter Eli Za­k­our urg­ing all road users to take per­son­al re­spon­si­bil­i­ty to pre­vent fur­ther loss of life.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says the pro­posed leg­is­la­tion to ex­pose for­eign ex­change “car­tels” will be com­ing to the Par­lia­ment this year and the Gov­ern­ment is al­ready work­ing on draft­ing it.

Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) pres­i­dent Fe­l­isha Thomas has again called on the Gov­ern­ment to keep its promise of a 10 per cent salary in­crease in next month’s na­tion­al bud­get pre­sen­ta­tion.

Sev­en­teen years af­ter last see­ing her cousin, Jen­nifer Mor­ris-Lit­tre­an was ea­ger­ly await­ing their re­union in To­ba­go last week­end. But hours be­fore they were ex­pect­ed to meet, she re­ceived news he had died, and now she is left to grieve his sud­den death.

Na­tion­al Par­ent-Teacher As­so­ci­a­tion (NPTA) pres­i­dent Wal­ter Stew­art says he has spo­ken to the Ed­u­ca­tion Min­istry about the lack of fur­ni­ture at the South East Port-of-Spain Sec­ondary School, and the min­istry has promised a quick so­lu­tion to the is­sue.

The Na­tion­al Trade Union Cen­tre of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NATUC) is call­ing for im­me­di­ate ac­tion to ad­dress the long-stand­ing wage dis­par­i­ties af­fect­ing work­ers across the pub­lic sec­tor and, in par­tic­u­lar, work­ers at the Port Au­thor­i­ty.

As the new law term ap­proach­es, the As­sem­bly of South­ern Lawyers (ASL) is re­new­ing its call for ur­gent at­ten­tion to long­stand­ing chal­lenges with­in the ju­di­cia­ry, chief among them the re­open­ing of the San Fer­nan­do High Court.

To­ba­go po­lice be­lieve rob­bery may have been the mo­tive be­hind the killing of 64-year-old Chi­nese con­trac­tor Fan­glin Zuo, who was found dead at his Ba­co­let home on Sun­day.

An 18-year-old Venezue­lan is still re­cov­er­ing at the Scar­bor­ough Hos­pi­tal af­ter he was stabbed dur­ing a fight at Store Bay Beach Fa­cil­i­ty on Sun­day, in an in­ci­dent that al­so led to the ar­rest of an­oth­er Venezue­lan man who gave po­lice his name as Roger Alexan­der, the Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter.

The po­lice of­fi­cer in­volved in the shoot­ing death of his col­league, Ja­mal Charles, re­mains in po­lice cus­tody.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar will at­tend the Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly to ad­dress world lead­ers, along with three min­is­ters, in­clud­ing Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath.