Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has pro­posed to Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley that the first an­ti-crime dis­cus­sions be­tween the Gov­ern­ment and Op­po­si­tion take place af­ter the 2024 Bud­get ac­tiv­i­ties. She has sug­gest­ed that in the in­ter­im, the Gov­ern­ment should in­vite par­tic­i­pa­tion from stake­hold­ers who wish to be part of the dis­cus­sions.

For­mer em­ploy­ees of Lennox Pe­tro­le­um Ser­vices Lim­it­ed who were sent home in 2017 claim they are owed more than $30 mil­lion in retroac­tive wages.

Mo­torists and busi­ness peo­ple have wel­comed the news that park­ing me­ters will be in­stalled in Port-of-Spain and San Fer­nan­do.

Ex­act­ly 18 years ago, CNC3 tele­vi­sion was born in fur­ther­ance of the stat­ed vi­sion by our par­ent com­pa­ny, Guardian Me­dia Ltd (GML), to be a lead­ing mul­ti-me­dia provider of qual­i­ty news and en­ter­tain­ment con­tent, serv­ing T&T, the re­gion, and the world.

At first glance, one may per­ceive Hank Williams to be or­di­nary and stan­dard, with his usu­al soft shirt, trousers and the spec­ta­cles that he can’t seem to do with­out. How­ev­er, be­hind those “Clark Kent” glass­es, is a man who pos­sess­es un­de­ni­able strength and for­ti­tude, hav­ing worked in the me­dia in­dus­try for over 33 years. For the last 18 of those years, he helped nur­ture CNC3 from its ba­by stage in­to adult­hood.

Foot­ball fans are urged to come out to sup­port its two lo­cal teams as the Ath­let­ic Club of Port of Spain (AC POS) and De­fence Force come face to face in the CON­CA­CAF Caribbean Cup on Thurs­day at the Hasley Craw­ford Sta­di­um at 6 pm.

AM­CHAM T&T, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Of­fice of Dis­as­ter Pre­pared­ness and Man­age­ment (ODPM), and the Unit­ed Na­tions In­ter­na­tion­al Chil­dren's Emer­gency Fund (UNICEF) host­ed a work­shop to en­hance col­lab­o­ra­tion and co­or­di­na­tion of Dis­as­ter Man­age­ment in T&T last week Thurs­day at the Radis­son Ho­tel, Port of Spain with rep­re­sen­ta­tives from the pri­vate and pub­lic sec­tors, and civ­il so­ci­ety or­ga­ni­za­tions.

Five days af­ter suf­fer­ing se­vere burns af­ter falling in­to a pot of boil­ing lentil peas, a three-year-old girl has died.

The vic­tim, Fa­reed Ali Kas­sim, of Red Road, New Grant, went to In­di­an Bay, Stone­bright, with his friend Farouk Mo­hammed.

The Guyana Teach­ers Union (GTU) has for­mal­ly asked the Min­istry of Labour to help break the dead­lock in ne­go­ti­a­tions for a 20 per cent in­crease in salaries for teach­ers.

A po­lice of­fi­cer was beat­en by two as­sailants dur­ing an at­tempt­ed rob­bery in the car park of a casi­no at South Park Mall last night.

Gatwick Air­port, Lon­don’s sec­ond-busiest, is lim­it­ing flights this week, part­ly be­cause of an out­break of COVID-19 with­in air traf­fic con­trol.