With hun­dreds of cit­i­zens anx­ious­ly await­ing news on po­ten­tial re-em­ploy­ment at the Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP), the Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter says the new board of the com­pa­ny will be an­nounced next week.

At least one dis­missed Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) con­trac­tor has threat­ened to sue the com­pa­ny for wrong­ful ter­mi­na­tion.

In­dia’s Prime Min­is­ter Naren­dra Mo­di touched down at Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port yes­ter­day af­ter­noon to a grand, colour­ful and cer­e­mo­ni­al wel­come, mark­ing the start of his his­toric two-day vis­it to Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro has made good on his promise to be­gin re­view­ing Firearm Users Li­cence (FUL) ap­pli­ca­tions, hav­ing com­plet­ed the first batch of files which had been piled atop his desk at the Po­lice Ad­min­is­tra­tion Build­ing, Port-of-Spain.

In keep­ing with his promise to ad­dress il­le­gal ac­tiv­i­ties, Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro paid a sur­prise vis­it to spe­cif­ic ar­eas in east Trinidad on Wednes­day, as he sought to get a first-hand look at un­sanc­tioned quar­ry­ing and min­ing.

A High Court Mas­ter has set aside an over $300,000 de­fault judg­ment ob­tained against the wid­ow of five-time Ca­lyp­so Monarch Leroy “Black Stal­in” Cal­liste by a pho­to­jour­nal­ist for the unau­tho­rised use of a pho­to­graph of her late hus­band. 

Sev­er­al stray an­i­mals were found poi­soned to death yes­ter­day near the Tem­ple in the Sea at Wa­ter­loo, prompt­ing strong con­dem­na­tion from an­i­mal wel­fare ad­vo­cates.

A Cou­va moth­er is de­mand­ing jus­tice and call­ing on par­ents to take re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for their chil­dren’s ac­tions af­ter her 13-year-old son was bru­tal­ly beat­en out­side Union Clax­ton Bay Sec­ondary.

The need for ad­di­tion­al fa­cil­i­ties to ad­e­quate­ly ac­com­mo­date women de­por­tees and for­mer pris­on­ers were one of sev­er­al is­sues raised at a grad­u­a­tion cer­e­mo­ny of a pre-re­lease pro­gramme for in­mates of the Gold­en Grove Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison, Arou­ca, on Wednes­day.

The Supreme Court on Thurs­day cleared the way for the de­por­ta­tion of sev­er­al im­mi­grants who were put on a flight in May bound for South Su­dan, a war-rav­aged coun­try where they have no ties.

In re­sponse to con­cerns raised by Mus­lim groups in Trinidad and To­ba­go re­gard­ing the of­fi­cial vis­it of In­dia’s Prime Min­is­ter Naren­dra Mo­di, the Gov­ern­ment has re­it­er­at­ed its stead­fast com­mit­ment to the prin­ci­ples of equal­i­ty, re­spect, and in­clu­sion for all cit­i­zens. 

The Cus­toms and Ex­cise Di­vi­sion has con­firmed that the Cus­toms Bor­der Con­trol Sys­tem (CBCS) re­mains op­er­a­tional but some users con­tin­ue to face chal­lenges with con­sign­ment clear­ance.