Em­ploy­ees of Hilton Trinidad can breathe eas­i­er for the next six months at least with the sign­ing of a new agree­ment be­tween Gov­ern­ment and the in­ter­na­tion­al lux­u­ry ho­tel chain.

A 39-year-old man was ar­rest­ed min­utes af­ter he beat a store clerk and robbed a San­gre Grande busi­ness­place on Wednes­day af­ter­noon.

An 81-year-old To­ba­go man was robbed and as­sault­ed af­ter with­draw­ing mon­ey from the bank on Tues­day.

The Pres­by­ter­ian Church of Trinidad and To­ba­go (PCTT) is call­ing on stu­dents, ed­u­ca­tors, par­ents, guardians and oth­er stake­hold­ers to en­sure chil­dren are pre­pared not on­ly aca­d­e­m­i­cal­ly, but al­so spir­i­tu­al­ly, men­tal­ly and emo­tion­al­ly, as the new aca­d­e­m­ic year be­gins.

As the events man­age­ment and lifestyle brand Yup Life con­tin­ues to face crit­i­cism from dis­sat­is­fied fete pa­trons on so­cial me­dia, the com­pa­ny's di­rec­tor Shadeed Ab­dul­lah is urg­ing dis­ap­point­ed at­ten­dees to give them a chance to re­deem them­selves fol­low­ing the events of the Fes­ti­val of Colour (FOC): The Awak­en­ing on Mon­day morn­ing. 

A new era in Trinidad and To­ba­go-Venezuela re­la­tions is be­ing ush­ered in fol­low­ing the de­vel­op­ment of a roadmap aimed at strength­en­ing co­op­er­a­tion in key ar­eas rang­ing from en­er­gy and agri­cul­ture to se­cu­ri­ty, which is to be led by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and act­ing Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez.

In­ter­na­tion­al af­fairs ex­pert Dr An­tho­ny Gon­za­les says For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers’ re­cent meet­ing with his Venezue­lan coun­ter­part is an en­cour­ag­ing sign that re­la­tions be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go and Venezuela are be­gin­ning to im­prove, and he be­lieves a meet­ing be­tween the lead­ers of both coun­tries could even­tu­al­ly fol­low.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s lat­est en­gage­ment with Venezuela could sig­nal the be­gin­ning of a thaw in re­la­tions be­tween the two coun­tries fol­low­ing a pe­ri­od of height­ened diplo­mat­ic ten­sions that dis­rupt­ed en­er­gy co­op­er­a­tion.

Cou­va South MP Bar­ry Padarath has brand­ed crit­ics of Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s In­de­pen­dence Day mes­sage as “pre­ten­tious, spine­less in­di­vid­u­als,” as he came to the de­fence of her con­tro­ver­sial ad­dress to Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) sup­port­ers.

With the start of the new aca­d­e­m­ic year just days away, par­ents and busi­ness­es on High Street, San Fer­nan­do, have mixed views on the back-to-school sea­son.

Days be­fore the new aca­d­e­m­ic year be­gins, To­bag­o­ni­ans are ques­tion­ing Cen­tral Gov­ern­ment’s cri­te­ria to ap­prove book grants and why the dis­burse­ment is be­ing done so late.

Of­fi­cials from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) vis­it­ed schools yes­ter­day to see first­hand the con­di­tion of fa­cil­i­ties ahead of the start of the new aca­d­e­m­ic year next week.