The To­ba­go Youth Coun­cil is ques­tion­ing whether the $500 ba­by grant be­ing of­fered by the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) is suf­fi­cient to en­cour­age young peo­ple to be­come par­ents.

Po­lice in the Port-of-Spain Di­vi­sion say they have record­ed a no­tice­able in­crease in cop­per theft, in­clud­ing the theft of telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions ca­bles, and are step­ping up po­lice ac­tiv­i­ties to curb fur­ther van­dal­ism and theft of valu­able equip­ment.

Elec­tron­ic Mon­i­tor­ing Unit (EMU) man­ag­er Lawrence Hinds says the unit has op­er­at­ed at just 50 per cent staffing ca­pac­i­ty since its in­cep­tion but in­sists man­pow­er short­ages were not re­spon­si­ble for the es­cape of the coun­try’s first con­vict­ed hu­man traf­fick­er, Michael An­tho­ny Smith.

The Min­istry of Health (MoH) is seek­ing to quell con­cerns about a resur­gence of COVID-19 in Trinidad and To­ba­go, say­ing there has been no sig­nif­i­cant in­crease in cas­es or hos­pi­tal­i­sa­tions.

Caribbean Air­lines trans­port­ed 75,149 pas­sen­gers be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go in Au­gust, as de­mand for trav­el be­tween the is­lands re­mained strong dur­ing the peak sum­mer sea­son.

Twen­ty-five stu­dents from com­mu­ni­ties sur­round­ing Trinidad Ce­ment Lim­it­ed (TCL) have re­ceived school-sup­ply vouch­ers af­ter be­ing recog­nised for their per­for­mance in the Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA).

Con­go’s Ebo­la out­break has killed more than 3,000 peo­ple out of more than 6,100 con­firmed cas­es, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est gov­ern­ment da­ta from Wednes­day, as the dis­ease is spread­ing at an un­prece­dent­ed speed, faster than ef­forts to track and slow it.

Caribbean Air­lines has in­tro­duced a new lux­u­ry air­port taxi ser­vice in the Unit­ed States, al­low­ing pas­sen­gers to book pri­vate ground trans­porta­tion as part of their trav­el ex­pe­ri­ence.

Po­lice seized a firearm, nine rounds of am­mu­ni­tion and a quan­ti­ty of sus­pect­ed Ec­sta­sy dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in Diego Mar­tin on Tues­day.

The Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) is set to re­launch its pro­cure­ment ex­er­cise for the con­struc­tion of thou­sands of hous­ing units, Hous­ing Min­is­ter David Lee has said.

Amid com­plaints from mem­bers of the TT De­fence Force (TTDF) Re­serves over the non-pay­ment of salaries, the De­fence Force has promised to de­liv­er cheques of out­stand­ing salaries to banks by to­day (Wednes­day).

The Com­mis­sion of In­quiry, ap­point­ed to in­ves­ti­gate the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing the Ju­ly 18 cap­siz­ing of the M/V Bari­ma that re­sult­ed in the deaths of more than 100 peo­ple, says it is com­mit­ted to con­duct­ing its work “in­de­pen­dent­ly, im­par­tial­ly, thor­ough­ly and ex­pe­di­tious­ly, with­out fear or favour”, and in ac­cor­dance with its terms of man­date.