In an at­tempt to es­cape the grid­lock traf­fic which snarled all routes in­to and out of the cap­i­tal city on Sat­ur­day, a de­liv­ery dri­ver lost his life af­ter he at­tempt­ed to use an al­ter­na­tive route.

A po­lice op­er­a­tion to fa­cil­i­tate the trans­fer of the new poly­mer $100 cur­ren­cy notes to the Cen­tral Bank Tow­ers in Port-of-Spain caused mas­sive grid­lock traf­fic in the cap­i­tal Sat­ur­day.

Trinida­di­ans are fa­mous for not keep­ing time but thanks to a do­na­tion from the for­mer pres­i­dent of the Sen­ate Micheal J Williams, they may have a bet­ter chance of do­ing so.

In June 2014, Or­pha Prescil­la Hack­ett, 24, of Union Vil­lage, Rio Claro, died af­ter be­ing chopped about the body by a man whom she had tak­en out a re­strain­ing or­der against.

Though the an­nounce­ment of a re­place­ment $100 poly­mer note came as a sur­prise to the pub­lic on Thurs­day, the re­place­ment poly­mer notes are al­ready in the coun­try.

Rage and out­rage af­ter a 15-year-old Form Three stu­dent of the Mara­bel­la South Sec­ondary School had to be hos­pi­talised af­ter be­ing beat­en by a par­ent on the school com­pound on Wednes­day.

Mem­bers of the Mus­lim com­mu­ni­ty are call­ing on the gov­ern­ment to hold their hand on a de­ci­sion to fast track the im­ple­men­ta­tion of the new poly­mer $100 note, which it wants to in­tro­duce be­fore the end of the year.

One year af­ter her on­ly son Joash Pan­tin was mur­dered, Chimene Pan­tin, is call­ing for the Gov­ern­ment to quick­ly es­tab­lish day­care cen­tres to en­sure chil­dren are safe and se­cured, when their par­ents are at work.

Po­lice Sergeant Roger Williams, who was shot dead on Chi­na­town, Char­lotte Street, Port-of-Spain last week, was laid to rest yes­ter­day.

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.

Lopinot House, which serves as a re­minder of this coun­try’s plan­ta­tion and slave era, is still stand­ing but the struc­ture’s in­tegri­ty is slow­ly crum­bling.