Top ex­ec­u­tives from Nu­trien met Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and oth­er mem­bers of Gov­ern­ment at the Red house yes­ter­day in do-or-die talks on the com­pa­ny’s fu­ture in T&T.

Hous­ing Min­is­ter David Lee says that 48 Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) em­ploy­ees have not had their con­tracts re­newed, as the cor­po­ra­tion moves to ad­dress what it de­scribes as fi­nan­cial mis­man­age­ment un­der the for­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) ad­min­is­tra­tion.

That’s what Gov­ern­ment has achieved with an agree­ment with the Oil­field Work­ers’ Trade Union, pro­vid­ing new CO­LA pay­ments for week­ly and month­ly paid T&TEC work­ers from this week on­wards.

A Com­mu­ni­ty-based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme Com­pa­ny (CEPEP) con­trac­tor has failed in its bid to re­vive its law­suit chal­leng­ing a mass ter­mi­na­tion ex­er­cise at the State com­pa­ny.

The Gov­ern­ment has moved to dis­tance it­self from claims that en­ter­tain­er and Mara­bel­la West coun­cil­lor John Michael Al­i­bo­cus, al­so known as Makamil­lion, was sent to in­flu­ence elec­tion cam­paigns in neigh­bour­ing Caribbean states.

The Tran­sit Po­lice Unit is be­ing re­con­struct­ed to over­see pro­tec­tion on the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route.

Mi­grants in south Trinidad are liv­ing in fear as po­lice pa­trols con­tin­ue in rur­al com­mu­ni­ties, says Ang­ie Ram­nar­ine, co­or­di­na­tor of the La Ro­maine Mi­grant Sup­port Group.

De­spite be­ing tout­ed in­ter­na­tion­al­ly as “one to watch,” Miss Uni­verse T&T con­tes­tant Lat­i­fah Mor­ris did not ad­vance to the Top 30 at the Miss Uni­verse 2025 pageant. Still, sup­port and praise con­tin­ue to pour in for the T&T rep­re­sen­ta­tive.

A for­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) ac­tivist was chopped on the head yes­ter­day morn­ing while pick­ing flow­ers by a man armed with a cut­lass.

The Per­ma­nent Sec­re­tary in the Min­istry of Trade, In­vest­ment and Tourism, and her fam­i­ly, were robbed by four sus­pects dur­ing a home in­va­sion on Thurs­day.

A man was freed of rob­bing a watch­man and shoot­ing at a group of po­lice of­fi­cers to avoid be­ing ap­pre­hend­ed in 2016.

Griev­ing hus­band Rakesh George has moved to take le­gal ac­tion over the gas tank ex­plo­sion that killed his wife, Ria, push­ing the long-run­ning tragedy in­to the court­room as he de­mands an­swers from the Na­tion­al Pe­tro­le­um Mar­ket­ing Com­pa­ny (NP) and the Fire Ser­vice.