Trinidad and To­ba­go Na­tion­al Nurs­ing As­so­ci­a­tion (TTNNA) pres­i­dent Idi Stu­art says more than half of the stu­dents who sit the Re­gion­al Ex­am­i­na­tion for Nurse Reg­is­tra­tion (RENR) fail the ex­ams.

In an ef­fort to ramp up the con­struc­tion of new hous­es, new­ly-mint­ed Hous­ing Min­is­ter David Lee has promised that the Gov­ern­ment will make funds avail­able to the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) to pay con­trac­tors.

New­ly ap­point­ed Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Khadi­jah Ameen has start­ed a na­tion­al flood mit­i­ga­tion cam­paign, which she said will see the im­me­di­ate de­ploy­ment of equip­ment and man­pow­er to clear drains and wa­ter­cours­es to pre­vent flood­ing.

While Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar de­scribed Pa­pourie Road, Bar­rack­pore, as a drain, many res­i­dents say it is much worse.

For the fourth time in eight years, the State has been or­dered to pay sig­nif­i­cant com­pen­sa­tion to a man from Clax­ton Bay due to the ac­tions of the po­lice. 

A tele­vi­sion host has re­quest­ed the dis­clo­sure of records re­lat­ed to mo­tor ve­hi­cle tax ex­emp­tions, State-fund­ed hous­ing, and med­ical ex­pens­es claimed by mem­bers of the for­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) gov­ern­ment.

A lawyer has chal­lenged a judge’s de­ci­sion to re­fer him to the Dis­ci­pli­nary Com­mit­tee of the Law As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (LATT) for fa­cil­i­tat­ing a ques­tion­able mul­ti-mil­lion dol­lar loan. 

The pres­i­dent of the To­ba­go Ho­tel and Tourism As­so­ci­a­tion (TH­TA), Regi­nald MacLean, says a re­cent US trav­el ad­vi­so­ry is dam­ag­ing to To­ba­go’s tourism sec­tor and to­tal­ly un­fair.

The foren­sic au­top­sy on the body of 41-year-old Iyana Cas­tana­da had to be de­layed once again—this time be­cause the pathol­o­gist sched­uled to per­form it missed his flight to To­ba­go.

A Cou­va man was killed af­ter his ve­hi­cle slammed in­to a garbage truck late Sun­day night. The de­ceased was iden­ti­fied as 44-year-old Ter­rance Ali of Per­se­ver­ance Vil­lage, Cou­va. Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, the dri­ver of the garbage truck was col­lect­ing trash along the South­ern Main Road in Mc Bean, Cou­va, near Din­di­al’s Stock­pile, around 11.15 pm when the in­ci­dent oc­curred. The truck dri­ver told po­lice that he had stopped to pick up garbage when he sud­den­ly felt an im­pact at the rear of the ve­hi­cle. Up­on check­ing, he dis­cov­ered that a gold Nis­san Almera had crashed in­to the back of the truck. The car’s dri­ver, lat­er iden­ti­fied as Ali, ap­peared un­re­spon­sive. Emer­gency ser­vices were con­tact­ed, and Ali was tak­en to the Cou­va Health Fa­cil­i­ty, where he was pro­nounced dead on ar­rival. Con­sta­ble Kussie is con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.

Burnt re­mains be­lieved to be those of miss­ing Fyz­abad man Uag­nan “Pha­goo” Ramjit have been dis­cov­ered in a yard not far from his home.

A 60-year-old taxi dri­ver was robbed of cash and a cell­phone by a pas­sen­ger in San Fer­nan­do on Mon­day. Po­lice said the vic­tim was at the Bor­de Narve taxi stand on Mu­cu­rapo Street, sit­ting in his gold Nis­san Almera around 6.05 pm, when a man ap­proached and hired him for a trip to Bor­de Narve. Up­on reach­ing the Bor­de Narve recre­ation ground, the pas­sen­ger asked the dri­ver to re­turn to San Fer­nan­do, say­ing he would pay him up­on ar­rival. The dri­ver agreed. How­ev­er, when they ar­rived at Prince of Wales Street, near Faith Cen­tre, the man an­nounced a rob­bery and stole $679, and a grey Sam­sung cell­phone val­ued at $900. The sus­pect then ex­it­ed the ve­hi­cle and fled on foot in an east­er­ly di­rec­tion. Sgt Seecha­ran and of­fi­cers of the San Fer­nan­do En­quiries and Op­er­a­tions Unit re­spond­ed to the scene. PC Bal­lier­a­jh is lead­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.