Six months af­ter the Counter Traf­fick­ing Unit (CTU) launched Op­er­a­tion Pur­ple Ryain in Rio Claro, a third sus­pect has been charged in con­nec­tion with the on­go­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

The Fire Ser­vice As­so­ci­a­tions of the First and Sec­ond Di­vi­sions have joint­ly sub­mit­ted a re­vised coun­ter­pro­pos­al to the Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer (CPO) for the 2020–2022 bar­gain­ing pe­ri­od.

The Unit­ed Na­tions Pop­u­la­tion Fund (UNF­PA) has do­nat­ed a ful­ly equipped mo­bile health clin­ic to the Min­istry of Health as part of ef­forts to im­prove ac­cess to health­care in un­der­served and hard-to-reach com­mu­ni­ties across Trinidad and To­ba­go.

For­mer En­er­gy Min­is­ter Stu­art Young has ac­cused the UNC ad­min­is­tra­tion of at­tempt­ing to “rewrite his­to­ry” over Trinidad and To­ba­go’s re­la­tion­ship with Venezuela, fol­low­ing com­ments by En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) is seek­ing the pub­lic’s ur­gent as­sis­tance in lo­cat­ing 17-year-old Sha­nia Sa­roop of San Juan.

The Pan Amer­i­can Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion (PA­HO) says it is pro­vi­did­ng new op­por­tu­ni­ties for Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean (LAC) to ac­cess lenaca­pavir as part of the pre­ven­ta­tive med­i­cine to curb the spread of HIV through­out the re­gion.

Mas­quer­aders seek­ing to par­tic­i­pate in next month’s To­ba­go Car­ni­val are ques­tion­ing how they will get to the is­land fol­low­ing the re­lease of the fer­ry sched­ule yes­ter­day.

The Air­ports Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go is re­ject­ing claims that pas­sen­ger traf­fic at Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port has fall­en sig­nif­i­cant­ly, point­ing to strong traf­fic dur­ing the Ju­ly/Au­gust va­ca­tion pe­ri­od.

Four stu­dents of North­east­ern Col­lege have pub­licly apol­o­gised for fight­ing on the very first day of the new aca­d­e­m­ic year last week.

For­mer de­tainees and their rel­a­tives say an apol­o­gy from the State would not be enough for what they en­dured while in de­ten­tion, with one for­mer de­tainee de­scrib­ing con­di­tions as fit on­ly for an­i­mals.

Peo­ple de­tained un­der Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) could have grounds to seek ad­di­tion­al le­gal re­course if they were held in in­hu­mane con­di­tions, says at­tor­ney Nyree Al­fon­so.

The Con­trac­tors and Gen­er­al Work­ers Trade Union yes­ter­day said the State of Emer­gency’s no-protest zones have tied its hands, pre­vent­ing it from demon­strat­ing in front of the San Fer­nan­do City Cor­po­ra­tion.