San Fer­nan­do May­or Robert Par­ris has vowed to in­ves­ti­gate af­ter ven­dors at the Mara­bel­la Mar­ket lost earn­ings due to the sud­den en­force­ment of a 1 pm Sun­day clo­sure.

The cur­rent Mid­dle East con­flict has not im­pact­ed on any of the arrange­ments or ex­pres­sions of in­ter­ests re­gard­ing Gov­ern­ment’s Blue­print In­vest­ment plan to date, ac­cord­ing to Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar

Months af­ter the pool in the com­mu­ni­ty fell in­to dis­re­pair for a third time de­spite tax­pay­ers spend­ing over $1.1 mil­lion on re­pairs, res­i­dents are again call­ing on the Min­istry of Sport and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment to re­fur­bish and re­open the Co­coyea Com­mu­ni­ty Pool ur­gent­ly.

SAN JOSÉ, Cos­ta Ri­ca (AP) — Grow­ing up in Trinidad and To­ba­go, Car­lon Au­gus­tus re­mem­bers read­ing the news­pa­pers his grand­par­ents bought dai­ly. Now 32, he says he turns to so­cial me­dia for the lat­est news.

Three telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions tech­ni­cians from across the Caribbean have se­cured in­ter­na­tion­al cer­ti­fi­ca­tion as part of a re­gion­al train­ing ini­tia­tive launched by Lib­er­ty Caribbean, the op­er­a­tor of Flow, Lib­er­ty Busi­ness and BTC.

As gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials and civ­il so­ci­ety ac­tors de­scend­ed on St Lu­cia this month, oil prices were ris­ing, buoyed on by a war in the Mid­dle East that has over­shad­owed the one in Eu­rope. St Lu­cia was the des­ti­na­tion for some of the finest minds in the re­gion to con­vene for a meet­ing on a glob­al just tran­si­tion from fos­sil fu­els. A pre­cur­sor to the much-an­tic­i­pat­ed First Con­fer­ence on Tran­si­tion­ing Away from Fos­sil Fu­els, in San­ta Mar­ta, Colom­bia be­tween April 24 and 29. The con­ven­ing would ul­ti­mate­ly har­monise the Caribbean's po­si­tion ahead of the in­ter­na­tion­al sum­mit.

Of­fi­cers of the St Joseph Po­lice Sta­tion seized a home­made shot­gun and am­mu­ni­tion dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in the dis­trict on March 14.

Of­fi­cers of the Port of Spain Di­vi­sion seized am­mu­ni­tion and cannabis dur­ing Op­er­a­tion Stead­fast con­duct­ed be­tween March 14 and March 15.

The Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Work­ers Union (CWU) has raised con­cerns about gov­er­nance and ap­point­ments in­volv­ing Na­tion­al En­ter­pris­es Lim­it­ed (NEL) and Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TSTT).

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Ag­gre­gate Pro­duc­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTA­PA) has ex­tend­ed con­do­lences fol­low­ing the death of busi­ness­man and quar­ry op­er­a­tor Dan­ny Guer­ra.

Po­lice ar­rest­ed three peo­ple for drug of­fences and seized three firearms and am­mu­ni­tion dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in Freeport on Sat­ur­day.

Two peo­ple were ar­rest­ed af­ter of­fi­cers seized cannabis val­ued at $750,000 dur­ing a State of Emer­gency op­er­a­tion in San­gre Grande on Sun­day.