De­spite a $2 in­crease in the min­i­mum wage for pub­lic sec­tor work­ers set to take ef­fect next month, Labour Min­is­ter Stephen Mc Clashie has dis­closed that last year’s in­crease of $3 to $20.50 for all work­ers is not be­ing ful­ly im­ple­ment­ed.

Eleven Venezue­lan women be­lieved to have been traf­ficked were res­cued dur­ing a joint op­er­a­tion be­tween the Counter Traf­fick­ing Unit (CTU) and the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) on Tues­day in Cunu­pia. The sus­pects, all lo­cals, were al­so ar­rest­ed.

The 29-year-old sus­pect who was ar­rest­ed short­ly af­ter the mur­ders of ba­by Ja­da Mooti­lal and her moth­er Tara “Gee­ta” Ram­sa­roop, 34, says he is sor­ry for what he did.

Trinida­di­an na­tion­als liv­ing in Flori­da were last night brac­ing for the ar­rival of Hur­ri­cane Mil­ton.

More than a week af­ter au­top­sies re­vealed that Sarah Smith and her two chil­dren died of blunt force trau­ma to their heads, their deaths have not been of­fi­cial­ly clas­si­fied.

Health Min­is­ter Ter­rence Deyals­ingh has called on cit­i­zens to re­ject what he de­scribed as a ris­ing tide of pop­ulism be­ing cham­pi­oned by the UNC.

Op­er­a­tions at the Port of Port-of-Spain re­turned to nor­mal yes­ter­day, but there are con­cerns that in­dus­tri­al ac­tion over the past few days could re­sult in high­er prices and short­ages. Port work­ers had tak­en in­dus­tri­al ac­tion over wage ne­go­ti­a­tions and health and safe­ty is­sues, dis­rupt­ing sev­er­al op­er­a­tions.

Min­is­ter of Youth De­vel­op­ment and Na­tion­al Ser­vice Fos­ter Cum­mings has con­firmed that stu­dents un­able to ob­tain a full CSEC cer­tifi­cate will not slip through the cracks.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing in­to an in­ci­dent on Mon­day in Cunu­pia, where a se­cu­ri­ty guard ac­ci­den­tal­ly shot him­self in the foot.

This was sup­posed to be a week of cel­e­bra­tions for De­nesh Lal. To­day is his 47th birth­day and he and his wife Nadya would have cel­e­brat­ed their tenth wed­ding an­niver­sary to­mor­row. In­stead, there will be a fu­ner­al for the fa­ther of two, who was killed at a mi­ni-mart in Cunu­pia on Tues­day.

Two men were ar­rest­ed at their Co­corite apart­ment on Tues­day, af­ter po­lice ex­e­cut­ed a war­rant and found a high-pow­ered ri­fle in the liv­ing room.

The fol­low­ing is the bul­letin is­sued by the Met Ser­vice to 4:00 pm, to­day, cov­er­ing the pe­ri­od: tonight, and to­mor­row…