Two-time Ca­lyp­so Monarch Lin­da Mc­Cartha Sandy-Lewis, bet­ter known as Ca­lyp­so Rose, was ho­n­oured in New York as the Caribbean Cul­tur­al Cen­tre African Di­as­po­ra In­sti­tute (CC­CA­DI) cel­e­brat­ed its 50th an­niver­sary on Sat­ur­day.

Amal­ga­mat­ed Se­cu­ri­ty Ser­vices Ltd has chal­lenged the award of a se­cu­ri­ty ser­vices con­tract by the Es­tate Man­age­ment and Busi­ness De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny Ltd (EM­BD) to SWAT Es­tate Po­lice Com­pa­ny Ltd.

The Of­fice of Pro­cure­ment Reg­u­la­tion (OPR) has re­vealed it nev­er ruled on al­le­ga­tions that the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) breached pro­cure­ment law dur­ing its con­tro­ver­sial $3.4 bil­lion De­sign-Build-Fi­nance hous­ing pro­gramme be­cause the le­gal chal­lenge was filed out­side the dead­line set by law.

This was how Pas­tor Neil Parsan­lal of Faith As­sem­bly In­ter­na­tion­al chose to re­mem­ber mu­sic icon Os­car Ben­jamin, stage name Os­car B, whose many tal­ents were cel­e­brat­ed at his fu­ner­al yes­ter­day.

In­cum­bent pres­i­dent of the Trin­ba­go Uni­fied Ca­lyp­so­ni­ans’ Or­gan­i­sa­tion (TU­CO), Ains­ley King, has re­turned to of­fice fol­low­ing the or­gan­i­sa­tion’s ex­ec­u­tive elec­tions, se­cur­ing 241 votes from mem­bers.

Caribbean Air­lines will add more than 7,600 do­mes­tic seats be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go dur­ing the Ju­ly/Au­gust peak trav­el pe­ri­od.

A 33-year-old Pe­nal man was ar­rest­ed af­ter po­lice found a Glock-type pro­hib­it­ed firearm and am­mu­ni­tion dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise at a birth­day par­ty in Pe­nal.

Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Khadi­jah Ameen has sought to dis­pel ques­tions over her de­ci­sion to trav­el to Japan with her son, Je­re­mi­ah, af­ter pho­tos she shared on so­cial me­dia showed the pair to­geth­er dur­ing her vis­it, prompt­ing spec­u­la­tion over whether pub­lic funds were used to fi­nance his trip.

Econ­o­mist Pro­fes­sor Roger Ho­sein says the Gov­ern­ment’s pro­posed AI da­ta cen­tre could pro­vide a wel­come boost to Trinidad and To­ba­go’s econ­o­my, but he warns the project is still in its ear­li­est stages.

A To­ba­go po­lice of­fi­cer has been charged with wound­ing with in­tent af­ter al­leged­ly shoot­ing a man dur­ing har­vest cel­e­bra­tions in Bloody Bay on June 8.

The San Juan Busi­ness As­so­ci­a­tion is re­new­ing its call for a tem­po­rary fire sta­tion and emer­gency am­bu­lance ser­vice in the dis­trict, say­ing two re­cent in­ci­dents have re­in­forced the need for faster emer­gency re­sponse and stronger pub­lic safe­ty mea­sures.

Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Ma­yaro Nicholas Mor­ris part­nered with the East­ern Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty and Se­wa TT to host a com­mu­ni­ty health fair at Biche Sec­ondary School on Sun­day.