Of­fi­cers were on pa­trol around 10.20 pm on Sun­day, when they re­ceived a re­port of a man ly­ing on the street along De Fre­itas Boule­vard, near the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) sta­tion.

The Bank­ing, In­sur­ance and Gen­er­al Work­ers’ Union (BIG­WU) is deny­ing claims that the union’s cen­tral ex­ec­u­tive has col­lapsed amid in­ter­nal lead­er­ship dis­putes.

Class­es re­main sus­pend­ed at St Bene­dict’s Col­lege in La Ro­maine fol­low­ing last Wednes­day’s fire that forced the evac­u­a­tion of stu­dents and staff. The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion had in­di­cat­ed last week that class­es would have re­sumed yes­ter­day sub­ject to clear­ance from Fire Ser­vice and OS­HA.

Al­most four years af­ter end­ing the PNM’s 21-year reign in To­ba­go, Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots (PDP) leader Wat­son Duke says his par­ty has been qui­et­ly screen­ing can­di­dates for some time and is “more than ready” for the next To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) elec­tion.

Over the past decade, Trinidad and To­ba­go has de­liv­ered bud­get af­ter bud­get promis­ing sta­bil­i­ty and growth. Yet, a clos­er look at the num­bers re­veals a con­sis­tent chal­lenge: the coun­try con­tin­ues to spend more than it earns.

The Min­istry of Works and In­fra­struc­ture has an­nounced that the ad­di­tion­al third lane of the Sir Solomon Ho­choy High­way, from Ch­agua­nas to Chase Vil­lage, is now of­fi­cial­ly open for use by the trav­el­ling pub­lic. The new­ly con­struct­ed lay-by near Bhag­wans­ingh’s Hard­ware has al­so been par­tial­ly opened to ve­hic­u­lar traf­fic.

The St. Kitts and Nevis gov­ern­ment has wel­comed the de­ci­sion by the St. Vin­cent and the Grenadines based Lynch Caribbean Bro­kers Ltd. To in­clude the twin is­land Fed­er­a­tion in the Re­gion­al Eco­nom­i­cal Agri-In­sur­ance Pro­gramme (REAP).

Min­is­ter of Cul­ture and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment, Michelle Ben­jamin, has ex­pressed full sup­port for the Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to re­as­sign the Na­tion­al Com­mis­sion for Self Help Lim­it­ed (NC­SHL) to the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce, through its Health­Care Com­mit­tee, host­ed an event ti­tled “Trans­form­ing Health­care: Bridg­ing Gaps for a Health­i­er Fu­ture,” aimed at ad­dress­ing the grow­ing im­pact of Non-Com­mu­ni­ca­ble Dis­eases (NCDs).

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Blind Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion (TTB­WA) is urg­ing the Min­istry of Health to in­clude crit­i­cal sight-sav­ing med­ica­tions for glau­co­ma and di­a­bet­ic retinopa­thy on the Chron­ic Dis­ease As­sis­tance Pro­gramme (CDAP) drug list.

Act­ing Pris­ons Com­mis­sion­er Hay­den Forde says the preva­lence of drone sight­ings and use of the de­vices to try and smug­gle items in­to pris­ons has led to dis­cus­sions over an­ti-drone equip­ment at prison fa­cil­i­ties.

Two stu­dents have been award­ed schol­ar­ships val­ued at TT$35,000 each for their aca­d­e­m­ic achieve­ment, pur­suit of STREAM-re­lat­ed stud­ies, and par­tic­i­pa­tion in the Shell NX­plor­ers Pro­gramme.