Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent Rod­hill Kirk has as­sured that there will be no po­lice post in To­ba­go with­out ad­e­quate con­sul­ta­tion with stake­hold­ers and res­i­dents in Ply­mouth.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath says dis­cus­sions are un­der­way for the es­tab­lish­ment of a po­lice post in his Cou­va South con­stituen­cy, with the Car­li Bay area among the lo­ca­tions be­ing con­sid­ered.

Tu­na­puna/Pi­ar­co Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion (TPRC) chair­man Josi­ah Austin has ac­cused Gov­ern­ment of “run­ning roughshod “over lo­cal gov­ern­ment au­thor­i­ties by ig­nor­ing es­tab­lished pro­to­cols as they move to set up 30 po­lice posts across the coun­try.

The Gov­ern­ment’s plan to es­tab­lish 30 po­lice posts across Trinidad and To­ba­go is be­ing wel­comed by se­cu­ri­ty and busi­ness stake­hold­ers, but a crim­i­nol­o­gist is warn­ing that the ini­tia­tive could face its biggest test when the State of Emer­gency (SoE) ends.

The sound of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s na­tion­al in­stru­ment will take cen­tre stage to­day as the coun­try cel­e­brates World Steel­pan Day with per­for­mances, an an­ces­tral walk and a ma­jor youth con­cert at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, Port-of-Spain.

The Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Work­ers’ Union (CWU) is warn­ing that it is pre­pared to shut down all op­er­a­tions at Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go Ltd (TSTT) with im­me­di­ate ef­fect if man­age­ment backs away from a ten per cent wage in­crease the union says was agreed to for work­ers.

Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Work­ers’ Union (CWU) sec­re­tary gen­er­al Joanne Ogeer is call­ing on Land and Le­gal Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sad­dam Ho­sein to keep his promise that Hilton work­ers’ jobs are safe.

Hilton has sig­nalled that it wants to con­tin­ue its 64-year pres­ence at the State-owned Hilton Trinidad and Con­fer­ence Cen­tre, even as its lease re­mains on course to ter­mi­nate on Sep­tem­ber 18 if a long-term agree­ment with Gov­ern­ment is not reached.

En­hance­ments be­ing made on the north­ern side of the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah to ac­com­mo­date the Au­gust 31 In­de­pen­dence Day Pa­rade will be re­moved af­ter the event, says Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Hous­ing and Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress Shad­ow MP for Port-of-Spain North/St Ann’s West Phillip Alexan­der.

The le­gal bat­tle over the trag­ic death of sev­en-year-old An­gel­i­ca Jo­gie in To­ba­go is head­ing to court.

The Gov­ern­ment has in­creased the pro­duc­tion of de­sali­nat­ed wa­ter as it pre­pares for the im­pact of El Niño and wors­en­ing drought con­di­tions across Trinidad and To­ba­go.

A fam­i­ly of sev­en has been left home­less af­ter a fire de­stroyed their home along the Ch­agua­nas Main Road yes­ter­day af­ter­noon.