Smoke em­a­nat­ing from the Air Traf­fic Con­trol (ATC) tow­er at the ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port in To­ba­go caused de­lays to at least two do­mes­tic flights yes­ter­day, af­ter staff at the fa­cil­i­ty were evac­u­at­ed and the air­port’s fire-sup­pres­sion sys­tems were ac­ti­vat­ed.

The Min­istry of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty has launched the Re­silient Youth cam­paign aimed at giv­ing young peo­ple greater ac­cess to sup­port, men­tor­ship and in­ter­ven­tions to help them deal with chal­lenges with­out turn­ing to crime.

A spe­cial sit­ting of the Siparia Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion came to an abrupt end yes­ter­day af­ter Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) mem­bers, along with two for­mer Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) mem­bers who have since crossed the floor, walked out fol­low­ing heat­ed clash­es.

Ja­maican-born British at­tor­ney Vin­cent Nel­son will have to wait up to half a year to learn the fate of his law­suit al­leg­ing breach­es of an in­dem­ni­ty agree­ment he en­tered in­to to im­pli­cate for­mer at­tor­ney gen­er­al Anand Ram­lo­gan, SC, and at­tor­ney Ger­ald Ramdeen in an al­leged le­gal fee kick­back scheme.

San Fer­nan­do East MP Bri­an Man­ning has apol­o­gised and dis­tanced him­self from cer­tain re­spons­es that ap­peared on his Face­book page re­gard­ing re­cent is­sues that have been sim­mer­ing with­in the PNM.

An Ari­ma busi­ness­man who was award­ed $90,000 af­ter a High Court judge found that he was as­sault­ed by a po­lice of­fi­cer three years ago is call­ing for bet­ter train­ing with­in the Po­lice Ser­vice.

Neil Ram­s­ingh has re­signed as Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer of the Agri­cul­tur­al De­vel­op­ment Bank (ADB), with the bank ad­ver­tis­ing the po­si­tion hours af­ter his de­par­ture.

Po­lice iden­ti­fied the vic­tim as Ty­lan Hink­son of Red­wood Street, Mor­vant. He was re­port­ed­ly shot near Sec­ond Cale­do­nia Road, in the vicin­i­ty of Ju­man.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the theft of 28 car bat­ter­ies from a man who was robbed at gun­point and forced to dri­ve to an­oth­er area on Mon­day af­ter­noon.

The Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture and Fish­eries is turn­ing to dig­i­tal tech­nol­o­gy to im­prove the de­tec­tion, re­port­ing and re­sponse to an­i­mal dis­eases across Trinidad and To­ba­go.

The Nel­son­ian Foun­da­tion is rolling out three free ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence tools aimed at tack­ling gaps in ed­u­ca­tion, de­men­tia care and fi­nan­cial lit­er­a­cy across the Caribbean.

Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Whip in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives Mar­vin Gon­za­les is de­mand­ing that Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar tell the coun­try whether the State of Emer­gency (SoE) will be ex­tend­ed when both Hous­es of Par­lia­ment re­sume on Fri­day.