Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Gary Grif­fith is cer­tain that the Po­lice Ser­vice is in bet­ter shape one year af­ter he was in­stalled as top cop.

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Gary Grif­fith says de­spite his achieve­ments over the last year in of­fice, mur­ders and the fear of crime con­tin­ues to be his biggest chal­lenges.

It costs less than $200 to strap down your roof with hur­ri­cane tie straps yet thou­sands of homes across T&T re­main vul­ner­a­ble to strong winds.

Clean-up op­er­a­tions con­tin­ued yes­ter­day in Pe­nal af­ter tor­ren­tial show­ers and high winds on Thurs­day caused de­struc­tion to sev­en homes in the area.

San Fer­nan­do May­or Ju­nia Re­grel­lo is plan­ning to move the Port-of-Spain taxi stand to Kings Wharf, but while some com­muters wel­come the move, most of the taxi dri­vers are against it.

The com­pli­ca­tions of blind­ness and am­pu­ta­tion were the first lessons that 25 chil­dren, who had high Body Mass In­dex, learned when they showed up for day one of the Di­a­betes As­so­ci­a­tion’s (DATT) Teen Lifestyle Camp at the Preysal Sec­ondary School in Cou­va Fri­day.

An olive branch from Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is es­sen­tial­ly be­ing slapped away by Pres­i­dent of the Na­tion­al Trade Union Cen­tre, Wat­son Duke.

It is dubbed as the pre­mier arts fes­ti­val in the Caribbean, CAR­IFES­TA XIV got un­der­way at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah last night. The theme this year is “Con­nect, Share, In­vest”.

120 ca­su­al and tem­po­rary work­ers with the Siparia Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion are ex­pect­ed to be giv­en the axe on Mon­day.

An em­ploy­ee at the Port of Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal was ar­rest­ed and a quan­ti­ty of mar­i­jua­na seized by of­fi­cers of the Port-of-Spain Di­vi­sion Task Force, dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise on Fri­day.

One hun­dred and twen­ty ca­su­al and tem­po­rary work­ers em­ployed with the Siparia Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion (SRC) would be giv­en the axe on Mon­day.

The Min­istry of Health has an­nounced that it is tem­porar­i­ly re­lo­cat­ing the lab­o­ra­to­ry of the Na­tion­al Blood Trans­fu­sion Ser­vice (NBTS) to the Trinidad Pub­lic Health Lab­o­ra­to­ry, 16-18 Ja­maica Boule­vard, St Clair, Port of Spain from Mon­day 19th Au­gust, 2019.