Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley yes­ter­day said the Peo­ple’s Part­ner­ship had left the coun­try’s gas in­dus­try in dire straits, with com­pa­nies op­er­at­ing on month-to-month arrange­ments be­cause 25-year con­tracts that had ei­ther end­ed or were due to end were not ne­go­ti­at­ed.

About 200 re­tirees from Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go Lim­it­ed (TSTT) say they cur­rent­ly have to sur­vive on less than $1,000 in pen­sion per month.

A for­mer cashier who is ac­cused of car­ry­ing out an armed rob­bery at her for­mer work­place, an NP Quick Shoppe, has been de­nied bail.

The Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al has agreed to set­tle a mul­ti-mil­lion dol­lar dis­pute with dozens of em­ploy­ees at the Im­mi­gra­tion De­ten­tion Cen­tre in Aripo over gra­tu­ity pay­ments from their last con­tract. 

Pro­posed changes to the Sup­ple­men­tary Means Test (SMT), for so­cial grants, may re­sult in some cit­i­zens be­ing bumped off so­cial pro­grammes as Per­ma­nent Sec­re­tary of the Min­istry of So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices Jac­in­ta Bai­ley-Sobers said they should not have been there in the first place.

How­ev­er, a mur­der in Pa­lo Seco this morn­ing and a de­com­pos­ing body found in the Ari­ma pushed the toll up, be­fore the two lat­est killings.

Come Jan­u­ary 2020, lo­cal clin­i­cal tri­als for can­cer treat­ment drugs will be­gin in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Four per­sons were ar­rest­ed on sus­pi­cion of be­ing in­volved in gang re­lat­ed ac­tiv­i­ties this morn­ing, by of­fi­cers of the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Re­sponse Team (SORT).

They are de­cid­ing whether Prime Min­is­ter Roo­sevelt Sker­rit and the De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Labour Par­ty (DLP) get an­oth­er term in of­fice...

The Min­istry of Works and Trans­port wish­es to ad­vise the gen­er­al pub­lic that there will be tem­po­rary traf­fic dis­rup­tions over the week­end as a re­sult of sched­uled road­works.

The swear­ings-in of coun­cil­lors for the San Fer­nan­do City Cor­po­ra­tion card­ed for to­day has been post­poned.

A new poly­mer $100 bill will be in cir­cu­la­tion with­in the next two weeks. Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Stu­art Young yes­ter­day an­nounced a Cab­i­net de­ci­sion to re­move the ex­ist­ing $100 bill and re­place it with a new hard­er to coun­ter­feit note.