Po­lice are seek­ing the pub­lic’s help in iden­ti­fy­ing a woman who was knocked down along the Churchill-Roo­sevelt High­way in Aranguez ear­ly on Mon­day morn­ing.

As hun­dreds of dri­vers faced an ear­ly morn­ing grid­lock dri­ving in­to Port-of-Spain, af­ter a woman was fa­tal­ly struck cross­ing the high­way in El So­cor­ro on Mon­day morn­ing, the Min­istry of Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion said it is tem­porar­i­ly open­ing of the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route (PBR) to light mo­tor ve­hi­cles to­day from Ma­coya to Port of Spain in the west­bound di­rec­tion on­ly.

Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) has lost an­oth­er mem­ber of its se­nior lead­er­ship team. Nichelle Grander­son, the Hu­man Re­sources Vice Pres­i­dent, stepped down on Fri­day af­ter serv­ing in the role for on­ly four months.

Agos­ti­ni Group is bet­ting big on con­ve­nience re­tail, rolling out a  re­vamped “Presto Fresh” con­cept that blends barista cof­fee, ready-made  meals, and the fa­mil­iar Lin­da’s pas­tries cus­tomers al­ready know.  

The Gov­ern­ment’s han­dling of an off­shore oil spill in the Gulf of Paria has come un­der scruti­ny, with the Op­po­si­tion and a po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst rais­ing con­cerns about de­layed dis­clo­sure, ac­count­abil­i­ty and the po­ten­tial diplo­mat­ic fall­out in an al­ready sen­si­tive re­la­tion­ship with neigh­bour­ing Venezuela.

A red flag is now be­ing raised af­ter Su­pe­ri­or Ho­tels Ltd was giv­en the green light by the En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty (EMA) to build a 200-room ho­tel, com­plete with bun­ga­lows, vil­las, and pri­vate res­i­dences, in To­ba­go.

In­stead of cel­e­brat­ing Moth­er’s Day, a Princes Town moth­er spent yes­ter­day griev­ing the loss of her son, who was gunned down at their home the day be­fore.

An­to­nia Cain-Kafi, the moth­er of 23-month-old Aki­ni Kafi, who was killed af­ter gun­men opened fire on the car he his par­ents were trav­el­ling in last week in Bel­mont, has shown slight im­prove­ment in her con­di­tion.

A man is dead and two oth­ers are hos­pi­talised fol­low­ing a ve­hic­u­lar ac­ci­dent near the Ca­roni Fly­over dur­ing the ear­ly hours yes­ter­day.

For­mer en­er­gy min­is­ter Stu­art Young has launched a blis­ter­ing at­tack on the Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar ad­min­is­tra­tion, ac­cus­ing the Gov­ern­ment of in­com­pe­tence and mis­man­age­ment of the coun­try’s en­er­gy sec­tor fol­low­ing the shut­down of a ma­jor fer­tilis­er plant at Point Lisas, and warn­ing that fur­ther clo­sures can fol­low.

Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath says tack­ling school vi­o­lence will re­quire a co­or­di­nat­ed na­tion­al ef­fort in­volv­ing par­ents, ed­u­ca­tors, com­mu­ni­ties and stu­dents them­selves, as con­cern con­tin­ues to mount over a re­cent spate of vi­o­lent in­ci­dents in schools.

The As­so­ci­a­tion of De­nom­i­na­tion­al Boards of Ed­u­ca­tion (ADBE) is ques­tion­ing why Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath has failed to meet with the body to dis­cuss press­ing is­sues af­fect­ing schools, in­clud­ing staff short­ages, in­dis­ci­pline and sup­port for spe­cial needs stu­dents.