The Of­fice of Pro­cure­ment Reg­u­la­tion (OPR) has launched an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the To­ba­go Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty’s (TRHA) mul­ti-mil­lion-dol­lar am­bu­lance pur­chase, fol­low­ing a for­mal com­plaint by Mi­nor­i­ty Leader Kelvon Mor­ris.

Dar­ren Mitchell, the lawyer rep­re­sent­ing de­tainees at the East­ern Cor­rec­tion­al Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre, is warn­ing the pub­lic that more “in­no­cent” peo­ple will be locked up if the State of Emer­gency con­tin­ues.

San Fer­nan­do May­or Robert Par­ris has wel­comed the Gov­ern­ment’s plan to con­struct a wa­ter­front ho­tel, con­fer­ence cen­tre, and ocean­front res­i­dences in San Fer­nan­do.

Af­ter years of pro­tect­ing cit­i­zens, a re­tired po­lice con­sta­ble is now re­cov­er­ing from a bat­tle that near­ly cost him his life—an at­tack by a pit­bull out­side his Clax­ton Bay home.

Po­lice in To­ba­go say more ar­rests are like­ly as in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue in­to a se­ries of vi­o­lent in­ci­dents in­volv­ing stu­dents on the is­land.

Pres­i­dent of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Ag­gre­gate Pro­duc­ers Al­liance (TTA­PA), Nigel Tenia, is call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to grant an im­me­di­ate mora­to­ri­um on sand and grav­el op­er­a­tions, as the sec­tor has been op­er­at­ing with­out for­mal li­cences for more than two decades.

Po­lice are set to charge two stu­dents, ages 13 and 15, who were seen phys­i­cal­ly as­sault­ing an­oth­er stu­dent on a stair­case at the Siparia East Sec­ondary School.

The Privy Coun­cil will have the fi­nal say over a med­ical neg­li­gence law­suit brought by the moth­er of a 23-year-old man with cere­bral pal­sy against the pri­vate clin­ic he was de­liv­ered at and her at­tend­ing ob­ste­tri­cian.

The Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al has sig­nalled its in­ten­tion to pur­sue a fi­nal ap­peal over a de­ci­sion by the Court of Ap­peal to up­hold a $20 mil­lion de­fault judg­ment in a ma­li­cious pros­e­cu­tion law­suit brought by nine men for­mer­ly ac­cused of the kid­nap­ping and mur­der of busi­ness­woman Vin­dra Naipaul-Cool­man.

Pres­i­dent of the 30th Con­fer­ence of the Par­ties (COP30), An­dré Cor­rêa do La­go, says Small Is­land De­vel­op­ing States (SIDS) have found a home in Belém, Brazil, and that their needs will be front and cen­tre at the Unit­ed Na­tions Cli­mate Change Con­fer­ence.

Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Util­i­ties Bar­ry Padarath has dis­missed stereo­types of “un­pro­duc­tive” pub­lic ser­vants while com­mend­ing a con­tin­gent of 25 T&T Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) work­ers for vol­un­teer­ing to join a mu­tu­al aid team de­ployed to Ja­maica to as­sist with re­cov­ery ef­forts fol­low­ing Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa.

Fif­teen mem­bers of the Homer fam­i­ly, whose homes were de­stroyed by fire at Ve­ga De Oropouche on Fri­day, have been tem­porar­i­ly housed at the con­stituen­cy of­fice of Min­is­ter of De­fence and MP for To­co/San­gre Grande, Wayne Sturge.