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.

The US Em­bassy has hand­ed over a do­na­tion of coun­ter­feit cur­ren­cy de­tec­tion ma­chines, ri­ot gear kits, and com­put­er hard­ware to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Prison Ser­vice to aid its ef­forts to pro­vide a safe, se­cure, and hu­mane cor­rec­tion­al en­vi­ron­ment.

Four sec­ondary school stu­dents who par­tic­i­pat­ed in the re­cent­ly con­clud­ed 15th Shang­hai In­ter­na­tion­al Youth In­ter­ac­tive Friend­ship Camp held in Chi­na, yes­ter­day paid a cour­tesy call on Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter An­tho­ny Gar­cia.

The alert warns of street or flash flood­ing and states that land­slips may oc­cur in ar­eas that are sus­cep­ti­ble.

Due to re­cent at­tacks on their dri­vers by crim­i­nal el­e­ments, TT RideShare has tem­porar­i­ly stopped ser­vic­ing cer­tain crime hot spot ar­eas in East Port of Spain.

Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, at about 8.30 pm Wick­ham had just ar­rived at the cor­ner of De No­bri­ga and Al­mond Dri­ve in a pri­vate taxi which he hired from the area to meet some­one.

Just over one month since Orop­une res­i­dents put their foot down on crime and oth­er il­le­gal ac­tiv­i­ties be­ing con­duct­ed in the area the ex­ec­u­tive of the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) met on Thurs­day with res­i­dents to dis­cuss the way for­ward in­clud­ing a pro­posed com­mer­cial com­mu­ni­ty hub.