An­oth­er ma­jor wa­ter pipeline rup­ture in San Fer­nan­do left one busi­ness­man count­ing his loss­es yes­ter­day.

Farm­ers and ven­dors at the Princes Town Mar­ket are di­vid­ed over a de­ci­sion to move farm­ers from their usu­al sell­ing area out­side the mar­ket in­to the main mar­ket build­ing.

As Trinidad and To­ba­go joined the world in mark­ing 25 years since the Sep­tem­ber 11 ter­ror­ist at­tacks, a lead­ing Mus­lim or­gan­i­sa­tion re­newed its call for the Gov­ern­ment to re­verse its des­ig­na­tion of Hamas, Hezbol­lah and Iran’s Is­lam­ic Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Guard Corps (IRGC) as ter­ror­ist en­ti­ties.

New­ly elect­ed Bank­ing, In­sur­ance and Gen­er­al Work­ers Union (BIG­WU) pres­i­dent Deb­bie-Ann Ot­t­ley says the union will not au­to­mat­i­cal­ly ac­cept the 10 per cent wage set­tle­ment be­ing used as a bench­mark in sec­tions of the pub­lic sec­tor, in­sist­ing that each ne­go­ti­a­tion must be guid­ed by the cir­cum­stances of the com­pa­ny and, ul­ti­mate­ly, the man­date of work­ers.

De­spite sci­en­tists mak­ing ex­tra­or­di­nary dis­cov­er­ies in Trinidad and To­ba­go’s deep sea, Dr Di­va Amon says they have bare­ly scratched the sur­face, and the coun­try must now take greater charge of un­der­stand­ing and man­ag­ing what lies be­neath its wa­ters.

To pre­vent an up­surge in crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty fol­low­ing the re­lease of more than 500 peo­ple de­tained with­out charge dur­ing the State of Emer­gency (SoE), Sean De Mills says the State must now fo­cus on re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion and rein­te­gra­tion pro­grammes.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is warn­ing crim­i­nals that her Gov­ern­ment will con­tin­ue to take “harsh and bru­tal mea­sures” against those who ter­rorise law-abid­ing cit­i­zens, even as the State of Emer­gency (SoE) ap­proach­es its Sep­tem­ber 17 end date.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says she has de­cid­ed, on the ad­vice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al, to de­clas­si­fy and re­lease a re­port show­ing the re­sults of wider ac­tions tak­en by the pro­tec­tive ser­vices to re­duce crime and crim­i­nal­i­ty dur­ing the State of Emer­gency.

For­mer act­ing CEO of the Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TSTT), Keino Cox, is chal­leng­ing the com­pa­ny’s de­ci­sion to place him on “ad­min­is­tra­tive leave” and the “non-re­new­al” of his act­ing CEO po­si­tion.

An amend­ment to the In­ter­cep­tion of Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Act, giv­ing law en­force­ment of­fi­cers the au­thor­i­ty to lis­ten in, record and utilise tele­phone com­mu­ni­ca­tions be­tween pris­on­ers and their lawyers, has been de­clared un­con­sti­tu­tion­al.

Pe­nal-Debe Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion chair­man Gow­tam Ma­haraj is urg­ing res­i­dents to help pro­tect new­ly plant­ed fruit trees at Palmiste Park, fol­low­ing the theft of pre­vi­ous­ly plant­ed trees by pri­vate groups.

Two men ap­peared be­fore a To­ba­go Mag­is­trate on Fri­day charged with traf­fick­ing more than $1 mil­lion worth of mar­i­jua­na and pos­ses­sion of am­mu­ni­tion.