Hy­att Re­gency Trinidad has do­nat­ed part of the pro­ceeds from its an­nu­al LIME Car­ni­val event to Unit­ed Way Trinidad and To­ba­go and Kids in Need of Di­rec­tion, con­tin­u­ing the ho­tel’s com­mu­ni­ty out­reach ef­forts.

Se­nior gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials, reg­u­la­tors, tech­nol­o­gy ex­ec­u­tives and pri­vate sec­tor lead­ers end­ed the sec­ond an­nu­al Am­pli­fy Sum­mit with a strong call for the Caribbean to ac­cel­er­ate dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion to im­prove long-term eco­nom­ic re­silience and re­gion­al com­pet­i­tive­ness.

Na­tion­al En­er­gy is still try­ing to col­lect mil­lions in dis­put­ed port fees from Cana­di­an fer­tilis­er gi­ant Nu­trien, even though the com­pa­ny’s Point Lisas ni­tro­gen plant has been shut down since Oc­to­ber last year.

"Stick to your guns and do your job ac­cord­ing to the law, which is there to pro­tect you."

Af­ter nine days of search­ing land and sea for two-year-old An­ge­lo To­bias-Plaza, po­lice say a sus­pect has con­fessed to mur­der­ing the child and dis­pos­ing of the body at sea.

A war of words has erupt­ed be­tween for­mer hous­ing min­is­ter Camille Robin­son-Reg­is and Land and Le­gal Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sad­dam Ho­sein over the Beau­car­ro and Al­lam­by hous­ing de­vel­op­ment projects, as well as com­ments re­lat­ing to the Of­fice of the Pro­cure­ment Reg­u­la­tor (OPR).

For years, res­i­dents liv­ing near the over­grown lands along Beau­car­ro Road, Freeport, watched heavy equip­ment move in and out, trans­form­ers ap­pear on util­i­ty poles and ru­mours cir­cu­late about a hous­ing de­vel­op­ment that nev­er ma­te­ri­alised.

Siparia Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion alder­man Vic­tor Roberts says he has no ob­jec­tion to laws be­ing changed to al­low po­lit­i­cal par­ties to re­voke the ap­point­ments of of­fi­cials in po­si­tions like his, but main­tains that un­der the cur­rent leg­is­la­tion he has no in­ten­tion of re­sign­ing.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors lead­ing the probe in­to the po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing of Joshua Sama­roo met with the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) yes­ter­day.

The rel­a­tives of a Cunu­pia man who was killed by po­lice are ques­tion­ing the cir­cum­stances un­der which he was shot, as they claim he act­ed as a care­tak­er for the prop­er­ty and was not armed at the time of his death.

Two days af­ter he told po­lice he was chopped and in need of as­sis­tance, the body of Adri­an Duff was found hog-tied and with sev­er­al chop wounds in the Ca­roni Riv­er.

Port-of-Spain City Cor­po­ra­tion al­der­man Wayne Grif­fith says he is ea­ger­ly await­ing the out­come of the in­ves­ti­ga­tions by school of­fi­cials and po­lice in­to the as­sault on him by Tran­quil­li­ty Gov­ern­ment Sec­ondary School stu­dents.