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.

Trinidad and To­ba­go has re­ceived its first ship­ment of 50,000 in­fluen­za vac­cines cour­tesy the Pan Amer­i­can Health Or­gan­i­sa­tion (PA­HO) and all health cen­tres are ex­pect­ed to have those vac­cines by to­day.

To­day’s meet­ing of the Elec­toral Col­lege on the Op­po­si­tion Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress’ at­tempt to try to re­move Pres­i­dent Paula-Mae Weekes, comes as Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ters ac­cuse the UNC of at­tack­ing the coun­try’s Con­sti­tu­tion and send­ing it in­to tur­moil.

The kid­nap­pers of Cen­tral busi­ness­man Kar­tikay Ram­sun­dar, 40, are de­mand­ing a five-mil­lion-dol­lar ran­som (US $750,000) for his safe re­turn and claim he is be­ing held cap­tive in Venezuela un­til the ran­som is paid.

With Trinidad and To­ba­go now cross­ing 1,600 COVID-19-re­lat­ed deaths, med­ical pro­fes­sion­als are con­cerned that the mor­tal­i­ty rate is still high.

Hunters Search and Res­cue Team yes­ter­day joined the search for miss­ing To­ba­go fish­er­man At­i­ba Williams.

All stu­dents in Forms Four to Six have been or­dered to re­turn to the phys­i­cal class­room from next Mon­day–Oc­to­ber 25, re­gard­less of their vac­ci­na­tion sta­tus at this time.

The coun­try has record­ed ten new cas­es of the Delta vari­ant and ac­cord­ing to the Min­istry of Health, sev­en of those who test­ed for the vari­ant of COVID-19 are not vac­ci­nat­ed, while on­ly two were ful­ly vac­ci­nat­ed.

Po­lice are on the hunt for two sus­pects who ab­duct­ed a bank teller af­ter she board­ed a car on a taxi stand in Rio Claro on Tues­day.

For­eign Af­fairs Min­is­ter Dr Amery Browne has con­demned Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tors for at­tack­ing the “spir­it” of hard-work­ing pub­lic ser­vants.