For­mer act­ing com­mis­sion­er of po­lice, Stephen Williams, said there is a flawed per­cep­tion by the two ma­jor po­lit­i­cal par­ties that a state of emer­gency (SoE) can be used to fight crime in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has ex­pressed sad­ness fol­low­ing the pass­ing of long-stand­ing Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) mem­ber Don Sylvester, de­scrib­ing him as a de­vot­ed and com­mit­ted sup­port­er of the par­ty. Sylvester died on Mon­day.

For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers has stepped up crit­i­cism of the for­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) ad­min­is­tra­tion, ac­cus­ing it of fail­ing to act on con­cerns raised by Unit­ed King­dom au­thor­i­ties over a surge in asy­lum ap­pli­ca­tions by Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­als.

To­ba­go Ho­tel and Tourism As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent Regi­nald Mac Lean is an­tic­i­pat­ing teething prob­lems fol­low­ing the re­moval of the do­mes­tic de­par­ture lounge at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port.

Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath says the launch of the Min­istry’s Form One dig­i­tal AI text­books will ease the fi­nan­cial bur­den on par­ents, re­duc­ing the need for cost­ly text­books.

The Prison Of­fi­cers’ As­so­ci­a­tion has called for re­spect and uni­ty fol­low­ing a com­ment made by Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Hous­ing, Anil Roberts, out­side Par­lia­ment to­day.

Weeks af­ter two San­ta Flo­ra fish­er­men and the ves­sel they were aboard dis­ap­peared at sea with­out a trace, a US$5,000 re­ward is be­ing of­fered for in­for­ma­tion lead­ing to their re­cov­ery.

A video of the in­ci­dent post­ed on so­cial me­dia showed the of­fi­cer pulling a woman’s hair and strik­ing her at least nine times across her face and head as they walked to the side of a house.

A 77-year-old pen­sion­er died af­ter a wood­en struc­ture col­lapsed on him at his Pe­nal home on Mon­day.

The Em­bassy of the Bo­li­var­i­an Re­pub­lic of Venezuela in Trinidad and To­ba­go has an­nounced the open­ing of reg­is­tra­tion for ad­vanced-lev­el Span­ish lan­guage cours­es, as the Venezue­lan In­sti­tute for Cul­ture and Co­op­er­a­tion (IVCC) cel­e­brates 63 years of ser­vice in the coun­try.

The Na­tion­al Joint Ac­tion Com­mit­tee com­mem­o­rat­ed the 56th an­niver­sary of the 1970 Black Pow­er Rev­o­lu­tion yes­ter­day, April 21, by call­ing on the na­tion to re­flect on those events and work to­wards a new and just so­ci­ety.

Six­teen years af­ter los­ing her nephew in a jet ski ac­ci­dent in To­ba­go, Kath­leen Roberts is urg­ing for­give­ness for the sus­pect in the death of sev­en-year-old An­gel­i­ca Jo­gie.