The Court of Ap­peal has dis­missed an ap­peal brought by home­own­ers Leslie Ann Rahim-Pe­ters and Lar­ry Pe­ters against the Point Fortin Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion, up­hold­ing a High Court rul­ing that re­ject­ed their neg­li­gence claim for struc­tur­al dam­age to their home.

The Court of Ap­peal has thrown out a le­gal chal­lenge by for­mer Trinidad and To­ba­go Reg­i­ment of­fi­cer Tim­o­thy Mal­oney, rul­ing against his claim that the De­fence Force un­fair­ly blocked his pro­mo­tion be­fore re­tire­ment.

Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC) chair­man Ger­ald Ramdeen is de­fend­ing the state-owned com­pa­ny’s de­ci­sion to end its 21-year re­la­tion­ship with in­ter­na­tion­al rat­ings agency Moody’s, in­sist­ing the move does not re­flect any re­treat from trans­paren­cy or in­de­pen­dent scruti­ny.

In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tor and econ­o­mist Dr Mar­lene Attzs says she is hope­ful lin­ger­ing ques­tions sur­round­ing the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s (NGC) de­ci­sion to dis­con­tin­ue its re­la­tion­ship with Moody’s In­vestors Ser­vice will be ad­dressed dur­ing the up­com­ing mid-year bud­get re­view.

Venezue­lan par­lia­men­tar­i­an Án­gel Tor­tolero is de­fend­ing his coun­try’s lat­est move seek­ing com­pen­sa­tion for an oil spill that orig­i­nat­ed in T&T two weeks ago.

Diego Mar­tin May­or Ake­li­ah Glas­gow-Warn­er is rais­ing con­cerns over se­vere traf­fic dis­rup­tion and in­dis­crim­i­nate park­ing caused by a large-scale med­ical out­reach ini­tia­tive in Co­corite.

Res­i­dents across sev­er­al San­ta Cruz com­mu­ni­ties are call­ing for the restora­tion of their wa­ter sup­ply and for clear­er, time­li­er up­dates from the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) re­gard­ing on­go­ing ser­vice dis­rup­tions.

As Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence con­tin­ues to re­shape glob­al ed­u­ca­tion sys­tems, Caribbean pol­i­cy­mak­ers, ed­u­ca­tors and ex­am­i­na­tion bod­ies are fac­ing mount­ing ques­tions over how to in­te­grate AI with­out un­der­min­ing aca­d­e­m­ic in­tegri­ty or the teacher-stu­dent learn­ing process.

The Board of Man­age­ment of Holy Name Con­vent Port of Spain has an­nounced an in­de­pen­dent re­view process fol­low­ing con­cerns and ex­pe­ri­ences pub­licly shared in re­cent days re­gard­ing al­le­ga­tions against prin­ci­pal Sis­ter Re­nee Hall.

Ar­se­nal have been crowned Pre­mier League cham­pi­ons for the first time in 22 years af­ter Man­ches­ter City failed to beat Bournemouth on Tues­day.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) has launched its SPARK Ini­tia­tive - School Part­ner­ship for Aware­ness, Re­spon­si­bil­i­ty & Knowl­edge - as part of its 80th an­niver­sary cel­e­bra­tions, in­tro­duc­ing sec­ondary school stu­dents to ca­reers in the en­er­gy sec­tor and mod­ern elec­tric­i­ty sys­tems.

The Uni­ver­si­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (UTT) has tak­en bold steps to ad­vance both so­cial in­clu­sion and en­vi­ron­men­tal sus­tain­abil­i­ty with the sign­ing of two strate­gic Mem­o­ran­da of Un­der­stand­ing (MoUs). The agree­ments, made with the Trinidad and To­ba­go As­so­ci­a­tion for the Hear­ing Im­paired (TTAHI) and the Caribbean Cetacean So­ci­ety (CCS), re­flect UTT’s grow­ing role as a dri­ver of na­tion­al and re­gion­al de­vel­op­ment.