The Li­cens­ing Di­vi­sion of the Min­istry of Works and Trans­port has an­nounced the launch of its Mo­bile Bus Ser­vice with two new (2) bus­es, ful­ly out­fit­ted with the tech­nol­o­gy and ca­pa­bil­i­ties to con­duct the ser­vices of the Li­cens­ing Di­vi­sion re­mote­ly. De­tails fol­low in this press re­lease from the min­istry.

Dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise con­duct­ed in the Mal­oney area, of­fi­cers of the North­ern Di­vi­sion found a mag­a­zine and a quan­ti­ty of am­mu­ni­tion in an aban­doned apart­ment build­ing. De­tails fol­low this press re­lease from the TTPS:

Next year could see state-owned Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC) hav­ing wind­fall prof­its be­cause it was pre­pared to ne­go­ti­ate hard with the down­stream petro­chem­i­cal com­pa­nies in­sist­ed En­er­gy Min­is­ter Stu­art Young.

The COVID-19 pan­dem­ic and the var­i­ous re­stric­tions put in place by the gov­ern­ment to stop its spread have re­sult­ed in some pop­u­lar restau­rants across the coun­try clos­ing their doors per­ma­nent­ly.

Scores of ven­dors across the coun­try will take part in The Green Mar­ket San­ta Cruz sec­ond Ve­g­an day which is be­ing held on Sat­ur­day 23rd Oc­to­ber, 2021. The fes­ti­val is in cel­e­bra­tion of plant-based liv­ing, and fea­tures food, drink, and ar­ti­sanal prod­ucts that are ve­g­an-friend­ly. De­tails fol­low in this press re­lease...

Pres­i­dent Paula-Mae Weekes has nom­i­nat­ed an­oth­er two peo­ple to staff the still de­funct Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion.

Head of the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice's Le­gal Unit, Chris­t­ian Chan­dler, and three Spe­cial Re­serve Po­lice (SRP) of­fi­cers were de­tained late yes­ter­day and could face mul­ti­ple crim­i­nal charges aris­ing out of an in­ci­dent aboard Chan­dler's yacht off the Ch­aguara­mas coast on Au­gust 5 this year.

A bar­tender at a bar in Cunu­pia and six pa­trons have ap­peared in court for breach of the on­go­ing pub­lic health reg­u­la­tions for the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic. 

Car­ni­val stake­hold­ers are be­ing urged to use T&T’s new link with KLM Air­lines to ex­port the Car­ni­val in­dus­try to the Rot­ter­dam Car­ni­val and jobs will be open­ing up ahead with ho­tel con­struc­tion and op­er­a­tions.

Ca­lyp­son­ian Morel “King Lu­ta” Pe­ters has threat­ened to take le­gal ac­tion against the Trin­ba­go Uni­fied Ca­lyp­so­ni­ans Or­gan­i­sa­tion (TU­CO) over its fail­ure to hold a by-elec­tion fol­low­ing the pass­ing of for­mer TU­CO pres­i­dent Lu­ta­lo “Broth­er Re­sis­tance” Mas­sim­ba in Ju­ly. 

The Con­cerned Par­ents Move­ment of T&T (CPMTT) wants the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion (MoE) to set aside the school syl­labus for Forms One to Three stu­dents cur­rent­ly, and in­stead fo­cus on their men­tal health to en­sure they can get back to a place where they are fo­cused and mo­ti­vat­ed to con­tin­ue their school­ing ahead of their re­turn to the class­room next term.

The daugh­ter of re­tired West In­dies crick­eter Mervyn Dil­lon was the pi­lot trainee in Tues­day’s plane crash in Pi­ar­co and ac­cord­ing to her fa­ther, the in­ci­dent will not de­rail her dream of be­com­ing a pi­lot.