The Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion says teach­ers are still with­out a clear time­line for re­ceiv­ing salary ar­rears and back­pay for the 2020-2023 pe­ri­od, de­spite as­sur­ances from the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion that cal­cu­la­tions are al­most com­plete.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine says it is time for Trinidad and To­ba­go to be­gin tak­ing the pro­tec­tion of its politi­cians se­ri­ous­ly, ar­gu­ing that last week’s al­leged threat against par­lia­men­tar­i­ans high­lights that se­cu­ri­ty de­tails are not a lux­u­ry, but a ne­ces­si­ty.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice has con­firmed that State se­cu­ri­ty agen­cies are in­ves­ti­gat­ing a se­cu­ri­ty-re­lat­ed mat­ter in­volv­ing a car­go air­craft at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port.

Au­thor­i­ties are con­duct­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions af­ter an air­craft car­ry­ing ex­plo­sives land­ed at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port last night.

The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion met with rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) on Thurs­day to dis­cuss sev­er­al is­sues af­fect­ing teach­ers, schools and the wider ed­u­ca­tion sys­tem.

Se­cu­ri­ty per­son­nel as­signed to the Par­lia­ment, as well as in­tel­li­gence of­fi­cers with­in the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice, say they are in the dark con­cern­ing any threats against Gov­ern­ment MPs or min­is­ters.

The Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment is warn­ing that an­oth­er State of Emer­gency (SoE) ex­ten­sion is on its way.

State en­ti­ty Land­mark­TT Prop­er­ties Lim­it­ed is fac­ing fresh con­tro­ver­sy, this time not over the award­ing of con­tracts but grow­ing scruti­ny sur­round­ing the com­po­si­tion of its board.

For­mer com­mis­sion­er of po­lice (CoP) Gary Grif­fith says the dis­clo­sure of a height­ened threat tar­get­ing se­nior Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials has in­creased pub­lic fears and will on­ly fur­ther harm this coun­try’s im­age in­ter­na­tion­al­ly.

Pa­tri­ot­ic Front leader Mick­ela Pan­day is ques­tion­ing the Gov­ern­ment’s trans­paren­cy and ac­count­abil­i­ty amid con­cerns sur­round­ing pro­cure­ment and hous­ing con­tracts, while al­so rais­ing con­cerns about the tim­ing of re­ports sur­round­ing an al­leged na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty threat.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine yes­ter­day ex­pressed shock over the dis­ap­pear­ance of tod­dler An­ge­lo To­bias, say­ing the na­tion must do more to pro­tect chil­dren.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine says the con­struc­tion of a 200-room ho­tel and re­sort at Rocky Point, To­ba­go, will help im­prove the qual­i­ty of rooms on the is­land.