A 45-year-old man was hos­pi­talised af­ter be­ing shot at a friend’s home in Moru­ga on Fri­day night.

A con­tract­ing com­pa­ny has won its law­suit over the fail­ure of State-owned project man­age­ment com­pa­ny Ed­u­ca­tion Fa­cil­i­ties Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (EF­CL) to pay it over $300,000 in fees for a ter­mi­nat­ed con­tract. 

The Gov­ern­ment plans sweep­ing changes to the Re­trench­ment and Sev­er­ance Ben­e­fits Act to pre­vent em­ploy­ers from avoid­ing sev­er­ance pay­ments through in­sol­ven­cy, tem­po­rary lay­offs or stag­gered job cuts, Labour Min­is­ter Leroy Bap­tiste an­nounced at a press con­fer­ence at UNC head­quar­ters on Sun­day.

Labour Min­is­ter Leroy Bap­tiste an­nounced Cab­i­net has ap­proved sweep­ing amend­ments to the Ma­ter­ni­ty Pro­tec­tion Act and the Re­trench­ment and Sev­er­ance Ben­e­fits Act, ex­tend­ing paid leave and work­place pro­tec­tions to fa­thers and adop­tive par­ents while re­mov­ing long-crit­i­cised re­stric­tions on ma­ter­ni­ty ben­e­fits.

Po­lice are try­ing to iden­ti­fy a man, be­lieved to be a Venezue­lan na­tion­al, who was chopped and stabbed to death dur­ing an al­ter­ca­tion in Diego Mar­tin on Sun­day morn­ing.

A 39-year-old man found with a gun in Orop­une Gar­dens told po­lice he was car­ry­ing it “for pro­tec­tion” be­fore be­ing ar­rest­ed on Sat­ur­day night.

The in­ter-is­land fer­ry ser­vice has out­lined how it will man­age car­go op­er­a­tions dur­ing the tran­si­tion pe­ri­od be­fore the ar­rival of the MV Blue Wave Har­mo­ny.

A 25-year-old man from Laven­tille is in po­lice cus­tody af­ter he was caught in­side a busi­ness place in down­town Port of Spain on Sat­ur­day night.

Po­lit­i­cal an­a­lysts are say­ing the win­ner of to­mor­row’s To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly elec­tions de­pends on the vot­er turnout.

Chair­man of the Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion (NCC), Pe­ter Kan­hai, says he was not per­turbed af­ter be­ing booed by sec­tions of the crowd dur­ing the launch of the John Cu­pid Car­ni­val Vil­lage on Fri­day, stress­ing that dif­fer­ing views were ex­pect­ed from time to time. He said the com­mis­sion re­mains com­mit­ted to im­prov­ing the Car­ni­val ex­pe­ri­ence.

A Unit­ed States-based record la­bel has threat­ened le­gal ac­tion against se­nior of­fi­cials of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), al­leg­ing the unau­tho­rised use of a copy­right­ed song in po­lit­i­cal cam­paign ma­te­r­i­al ahead of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly elec­tions.

Pres­i­dent of the Prison Of­fi­cers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (POA) Ger­ard Gor­don says that a re­cent “out­break” of the vari­cel­la virus (chick­en­pox) at the Arou­ca Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison (MSP) is a sign of larg­er chal­lenges fac­ing the T&T Prison Ser­vice, as he warns that ex­ist­ing fa­cil­i­ties may not be enough to ad­dress such a high­ly con­ta­gious dis­ease.