Tabaquite MP Su­ru­jrat­tan Ram­bachan be­lieves the Min­istry of Works and Trans­port needs to re­assess its labour force as he be­lieves there is a large amount of in­ef­fi­cien­cies with­in it.

A US$72 mil­lion con­tract with De­sal­cott, that has been in place since 1999, has caused the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty to go­ing in­to bank­rupt­cy.

The plight of a Pa­lo Seco cou­ple and their two ba­bies has touched the hearts of many peo­ple through­out the coun­try.

They wear a brave face as they go out in­to what has been dubbed the “Gulf of Pi­rates”, but a clos­er look at the fish­er­men of the Or­ange Val­ley Bay re­veal a deep­er pain caused by Ju­ly’s mas­sacre out at sea which claimed the lives of sev­en of their com­rades.

Erin fish­er­man Robert Men­doza, who was crit­i­cal­ly in­jured when gun­men in­vad­ed his home and killed his wife, re­mains in hos­pi­tal and is yet to be in­ter­viewed by po­lice of­fi­cers re­gard­ing the case.

The Min­istry of Trade and In­dus­try’s agency Fash­ionTT, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Na­tion­al En­tre­pre­neur­ship De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (NED­CO), award­ed cer­tifi­cates to the first batch of grad­u­ates of its En­tre­pre­neur­ial De­vel­op­ment Pro­gramme on Oc­to­ber 19, 2019.

Sta­tis­tics helps pol­i­cy­mak­ers and gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials to make ev­i­dence-based de­ci­sions. This was the sen­ti­ment ex­pressed by Di­rec­tor of Sta­tis­tics at the Cen­tral Sta­tis­ti­cal Of­fice, Sean O’Brien dur­ing an in­ter­view out­side their Fred­er­ick Street of­fice as they ob­served Caribbean Sta­tis­tics Day.

The Min­istry of Tourism said it ex­pects thou­sands of tourist ar­rivals as in­ter­na­tion­al trail run­ners vis­it Trinidad and To­ba­go next year to par­tic­i­pate in this coun­try’s first host­ing of the World In­ter Hash 2020, from April 23rd to 26th.

A faulty sew­er at apart­ment build­ings at Cy­press Hills, Union Hall, San Fer­nan­do has left ten­ants to bat­tle dai­ly with over­flow­ing toi­lets, res­pi­ra­to­ry prob­lems and skin ail­ments.

The Scar­bor­ough Sec­ondary School in To­ba­go was evac­u­at­ed for a sec­ond time in mere days, af­ter elec­tri­cal is­sues at the school were de­tect­ed yes­ter­day morn­ing.

Pas­tor Dave Neaves ap­peared in court yes­ter­day for al­leged­ly sex­u­al­ly as­sault­ing a 13-year-old girl.

A 26-year-old Barataria woman who al­leged­ly threw a liq­uid in­to the eyes of a po­lice­man caus­ing him in­jury has been re­mand­ed in­to cus­tody.