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.

The State, through the Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ties (RHAs), which man­age lo­cal health­care, paid out more than $16 mil­lion on 61 med­ical neg­li­gence set­tle­ments be­tween 2015 and 2024, ac­cord­ing to Free­dom of In­for­ma­tion Act (FOIA) re­quest doc­u­ments ob­tained from the Min­istry of Health by Guardian Me­dia.

Psy­chi­a­trist Dr Var­ma Deyals­ingh says that greater in­volve­ment from the State is nec­es­sary in iden­ti­fy­ing homes where el­der­ly peo­ple may not be re­ceiv­ing the care they need.

The well-be­ing of the now-dis­placed News­day staff was in fo­cus as the Me­dia As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go held its first elec­tion in over four years on Sat­ur­day.

News­day’s clo­sure has been de­scribed as a tragedy that has prompt­ed great wor­ry that jour­nal­ism in the re­gion is un­der se­ri­ous threat.

A ran­sacked of­fice, a tam­pered safe, and a miss­ing elec­tric­i­ty me­ter greet­ed work­ers when the TTPost build­ing on Lucky Street, La Ro­maine, was re­opened ear­ly Fri­day morn­ing, af­ter bur­glars broke in­to the fa­cil­i­ty overnight.

Laugh­ter, colour, and wide-eyed won­der filled the Na­tion­al Acad­e­my for Per­form­ing Arts (NA­PA) on Sat­ur­day as Spir­it Mas opened the vi­brant world of Car­ni­val to over 100 chil­dren from three chil­dren’s homes across the coun­try dur­ing a spe­cial­ly cu­rat­ed cul­tur­al work­shop.

Fire of­fi­cers re­spond­ed to a re­port of a blaze at the Cen­tral Bank build­ing in down­town Port-of-Spain on Fri­day night, but say it was not a fire but ac­tu­al­ly steam.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is hail­ing the Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion’s Fla­va Vil­lage, launched Thurs­day, as a “bril­liant project”.

Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion (NCC) Chair­man Pe­ter Kan­hai ac­knowl­edged the loud pub­lic back­lash he faced on open­ing night of the John Cu­pid Car­ni­val Vil­lage, say­ing the Com­mis­sion will lis­ten to the con­cerns raised about mov­ing the venue to the north­west­ern side of the Grand Stand at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah.

A copy­right dis­pute has emerged in the fi­nal days of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly cam­paign, with at­tor­neys for a US-based mu­sic pro­duc­tion com­pa­ny warn­ing of im­mi­nent court ac­tion against the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM).