Strug­gling to hold back tears as she searched her mind for a rea­son as to why her broth­er had been gunned down on the week­end, the sis­ter of Justin Jee­tam is de­mand­ing jus­tice from the State.

A south Trinidad man serv­ing a 12-year sen­tence said he was told by a prison of­fi­cer not to tell his moth­er he was de­pressed and to write her “hap­py thoughts”. He was told not to show emo­tion when she died and was “blown off” by an of­fi­cer when he sought to use the prison li­brary.

The call was made yes­ter­day by both the Prison Of­fi­cers’ As­so­ci­a­tion and for­mer pris­on­ers. Their con­cerns arose at yes­ter­day’s meet­ing of Par­lia­ment’s So­cial Ser­vices and Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion com­mit­tee which fo­cused on chal­lenges faced by ex-pris­on­ers in rein­te­gra­tion in­to so­ci­ety.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley is al­leg­ing that the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) fa­cil­i­tat­ed pay­ments to Cam­bridge An­a­lyt­i­ca un­der the guise of ad­ver­tis­ing con­tracts through State com­pa­nies.

The Na­tion­al Trade Union Cen­tre (NATUC) has called on the gov­ern­ment to set­tle all out­stand­ing ne­go­ti­a­tions with­out any fur­ther de­lay.

The lo­cal agri­cul­tur­al sec­tor has been so bad­ly dec­i­mat­ed over the last sev­er­al decades that any gov­ern­ment who tries to fix it will have to con­sid­er whether or not the cost will be worth the re­turn.

While many com­pa­nies have been buck­ling un­der the pres­sure of chal­leng­ing eco­nom­ic con­di­tions, Pen­ny­wise Cos­met­ics Ltd has not on­ly been sur­viv­ing, they have been thriv­ing.

Tech­nol­o­gy is cen­tral to achiev­ing en­er­gy fu­ture and BPTT con­tin­ues to in­vest hun­dreds of mil­lions of dol­lars glob­al­ly to de­ploy the best avail­able tech­nolo­gies in its busi­ness and to con­tin­ue to use the best minds to de­liv­er en­er­gy now and in­to the fu­ture.

Sai­fudeen Muham­mad the 13-year-old, Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege, Ch­agua­nas stu­dent went vi­ral af­ter a video was post­ed on so­cial me­dia of his brav­ery in re­mov­ing a wild maca­juel snake at the school com­pound this week.

Call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to com­plete a prop­er in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the claims made by Cam­bridge An­a­lyt­i­ca (CA) whistle­blow­er Christo­pher Wylie, Con­gress of the Peo­ple (COP) leader Car­olyn Seep­er­sad-Bachan says the is­sue is now on­ly be­ing used to score cheap po­lit­i­cal points.

Lo­cal ce­ment man­u­fac­tur­er Trinidad Ce­ment Lim­it­ed (TCL) has been rep­ri­mand­ed and dis­charged by the In­dus­tri­al Court for ter­mi­nat­ing 16 work­ers with­out giv­ing them pri­or no­tice. 

Lawyers rep­re­sent­ing a con­tract­ing com­pa­ny with an on­go­ing $1.3 bil­lion law­suit against the Es­tate Man­age­ment and Busi­ness De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny (EM­BD) have claimed that Agri­cul­ture Min­is­ter Clarence Ramb­harat prej­u­diced the case while on the cam­paign trail on Tues­day night.