The Amer­i­can Cham­ber of Com­merce of Trinidad and To­ba­go (Am­cham T&T) is ex­press­ing se­ri­ous con­cern over a new visa bond pol­i­cy be­ing im­ple­ment­ed by the Unit­ed States, which could re­quire cer­tain ap­pli­cants to post bonds of up to US$15,000 in or­der to en­ter the coun­try.

A frus­trat­ed San Fer­nan­do pen­sion­er is once again ap­peal­ing to au­thor­i­ties to clean and prop­er­ly main­tain an aban­doned lot ad­join­ing her home.

As the two-month mark ap­proach­es since the Gov­ern­ment ter­mi­nat­ed over 10,000 work­ers from the Com­mu­ni­ty-based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP), res­i­dents of west Trinidad are start­ing to feel the im­pact.

A fe­male po­lice of­fi­cer was beat­en and struck in the head, face and up­per body with a cell­phone dur­ing an ar­gu­ment with a close male rel­a­tive yes­ter­day.

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP) Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro says the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE)—though not in­tend­ed to tar­get vi­o­lent crime—is con­tribut­ing to a marked de­cline in homi­cides so far this year.

Prison Of­fi­cers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (POA) pres­i­dent Ger­ard Gor­don has again called for the im­me­di­ate clo­sure of the Port-of-Spain Prison and Car­rera Is­land Con­vict Prison, say­ing the cen­tu­ry-old in­sti­tu­tions are no longer fit for pur­pose and con­tin­ue to place strain on both prison staff and the pub­lic.

Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Khadi­jah Ameen says the “blame UNC” ex­cuse no longer holds up when it comes to the state of the Un­em­ploy­ment Re­lief Pro­gramme (URP).

With plac­ards in hand and tears in their eyes, the daugh­ters, rel­a­tives and friends of Theodore “Beast” Gun­pat walked through Or­toire Vil­lage on Mon­day night, plead­ing for an­swers near­ly two weeks af­ter the 67-year-old Ma­yaro man van­ished with­out a trace.

With La Ro­main cou­ple Samuel Mon­tano and Za­hee­da Mo­hammed still miss­ing, a search and res­cue group is ap­peal­ing to fish­er­men op­er­at­ing in the Gulf of Paria to re­main vig­i­lant.

For­mer jour­nal­ist, com­mu­ni­ca­tions spe­cial­ist and men­tal health ad­vo­cate Char­lene Stu­art was giv­en her fi­nal rites yes­ter­day in a heart­felt, tear­ful fu­ner­al ser­vice at the Love and Faith Church World Out­reach Min­istries in Sophia, Guyana.

Two of To­ba­go’s po­lit­i­cal par­ties say they are ac­tive­ly prepar­ing for the next To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) elec­tions, as the is­land’s po­lit­i­cal land­scape con­tin­ues to shift fol­low­ing the his­toric 2021 out­come and its af­ter­math.

Al­most a week af­ter two men were ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the mur­der of 22-year-old Trevorn Walk­er, po­lice have re­leased one sus­pect and ex­pect to lay charges against the oth­er.