Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath has de­fend­ed state-owned Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TSTT) against re­cent al­le­ga­tions by the Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Work­ers’ Union (CWU), dis­miss­ing the claims as “week­ly bo­geys that are nei­ther fac­tu­al nor co­her­ent.”

The Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Work­ers’ Union (CWU) is de­mand­ing a ten per cent wage in­crease for Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TSTT) work­ers when ne­go­ti­a­tions re­sume, with Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al Joanne Ogeer warn­ing that the union is pre­pared to protest once the State of Emer­gency (SoE) ends on Thurs­day.

The To­ba­go Hos­pi­tal­i­ty and Tourism In­sti­tute (THIT) is promis­ing to raise the bar in the choco­late in­dus­try.

Na­tion­al In­sur­ance Board of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NIBTT) ex­ec­u­tive di­rec­tor Niala Per­sad-Po­li­ah will re­tire ear­ly on De­cem­ber 13, end­ing a 23-year ca­reer with the or­gan­i­sa­tion, in­clud­ing 12 years as its ex­ec­u­tive di­rec­tor.How­ev­er, no rea­son has been giv­en for her ear­ly re­tire­ment.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dave Tan­coo is look­ing in­to the case of a San­gre Grande moth­er who lost her twin ba­bies in the 2024 Neona­tal In­ten­sive Care Unit (NICU) tragedy at the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal and is now fac­ing the pos­si­ble loss of her fam­i­ly home.

Weeks ahead of the open­ing of the new air­port ter­mi­nal in To­ba­go, the le­gal de­f­i­n­i­tion of the air­port in Crown Point has been changed.

A sus­pend­ed po­lice of­fi­cer has been giv­en the green light to sue the Of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) over its de­lay in pros­e­cut­ing for mis­be­hav­iour in pub­lic of­fice in re­la­tion to an al­leged in­ci­dent which oc­curred al­most 15 years ago. 

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine said the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) is tak­ing ac­tion to pre­vent a wa­ter cri­sis as the is­land braces for drought-like con­di­tions in the next two months.

Trinida­di­ans Oren Gor­don and Sariyah Mo­hammed re­turned from Cu­ba with first­hand ac­counts of an is­land grap­pling with wa­ter ra­tioning, pro­longed black­outs, fu­el short­ages, poor garbage col­lec­tion and short­ages of food and med­ical sup­plies.

Se­cu­ri­ty vul­ner­a­bil­i­ties at San Juan North Sec­ondary School had been iden­ti­fied and re­port­ed be­fore an unau­tho­rised per­son en­tered the com­pound and robbed a mem­ber of staff last Thurs­day, ac­cord­ing to the Es­tate Po­lice As­so­ci­a­tion (EPA).

Joel Charles, 27, of Or­ange Field Road, Cara­pichaima, was killed and an­oth­er man was wound­ed in a shoot­ing along Or­ange Field Road, Cara­pichaima, ear­ly Fri­day morn­ing.

Two teenage boys were among four peo­ple ar­rest­ed in Mor­vant on Sun­day af­ter po­lice found two firearms and 20 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion in a car.