Head of the new­ly-formed To­ba­go Busi­ness Cham­ber Mar­tin George has con­demned the con­tin­ued chal­lenges be­ing ex­pe­ri­enced on the in­ter-is­land seabridge.

A group of for­mer As­sem­bly­men are now mak­ing a pub­lic ap­peal to Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley for as­sis­tance in get­ting a pen­sion from the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith says drunk dri­vers and peo­ple who dri­ve above the speed lim­it in To­ba­go will feel the full brunt of the law.

Po­lice have charged a man in con­nec­tion with the al­leged bug­gery of a 12-year-old school­boy in To­ba­go.

Ker­win John was vot­ed in as the sec­ond Vice Pres­i­dent of the T&T Crick­et Board (TTCB) at elec­tions held re­cent­ly at the TTCB of­fice, Na­tion­al Crick­et Cen­tre in Cou­va.

Sig­nal Hill Sec­ondary’s hopes for glo­ry in this year’s Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League (SS­FL) Shell/First Cit­i­zens In­ter­col girls’ fi­nal were killed off by Pleas­antville Sec­ondary’s Alex­cia Ali at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um in Cou­va on Tues­day.

A for­mer stu­dent now pur­su­ing a de­gree in Man­age­ment Stud­ies has been se­lect­ed as the Scar­bor­ough Sec­ondary School Alum­ni’s 2018 schol­ar­ship re­cip­i­ent.

Lon­don, who re­cent­ly com­plet­ed an ath­let­ic schol­ar­ship at Cop­pin State Uni­ver­si­ty in Bal­ti­more, Mary­land, first won Di­vi­sion Three of the just con­clud­ed To­ba­go In­ter­na­tion­al Cy­cling Clas­sic (TICC).

For Mar­tin Su­perville, the brain­child be­hind Ex­po ART To­ba­go 2018, the four-day show­cas­ing of artists and ar­ti­sans at the Shaw Park Cul­tur­al Com­plex (No­vem­ber 29-De­cem­ber 2) was “an over­whelm­ing suc­cess.”

THA Pre­sid­ing Of­fi­cer Denise Tsoiafatt An­gus tries an elab­o­rate shot with a co­conut branch bat dur­ing a game of crick­et with Bish­ops High School stu­dents dur­ing the school’s ‘A Taste of our Her­itage’ on Tues­day. The event was host­ed by the school’s De­part­ment of So­cial Sci­ences as part of the on­go­ing To­ba­go Day fes­tiv­i­ties and al­so in­clud­ed oth­er game To­bag­o­ni­ans play, song and dance, spo­ken word and speech-band.

“Once a per­son has passed through Cadets you will know, that per­son will stand out from among the rest,” Sub Lieu­tenant of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Cadet Force Dave El­liot said as he proud­ly as­sist­ed in lead­ing the lat­est batch of re­cruits cel­e­brat­ing the or­gan­i­sa­tion’s 60th an­niver­sary in To­ba­go re­cent­ly.

The busi­ness as­so­ci­a­tion, which rep­re­sents over 400 cot­tage in­dus­try en­tre­pre­neurs, host­ed the event at the Cafe Bistro Restau­rant, Store Bay Lo­cal Road, last Sat­ur­day.

Af­ter be­ing bom­bard­ed for weeks by par­ents, teach­ers, read­ers of this col­umn, fam­i­ly mem­bers, friends and my Crim­i­nol­o­gy and Crim­i­nal Jus­tice stu­dents, to au­thor a piece on the im­por­tance of parental dis­ci­pline as a pre­cur­sor to chil­dren’s dis­ci­pline, I de­cid­ed to oblige.

The To­ba­go Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (TRHA) paid $1,835,806.06 to set­tle four law­suits brought against it be­tween Jan­u­ary 2013 and Ju­ly 31 this year.