A for­mer deputy gen­er­al man­ag­er of the Pub­lic Trans­port Ser­vice Cor­po­ra­tion (PTSC) has been giv­en the green light to sue his for­mer em­ploy­er and its line min­istry over a de­ci­sion to ter­mi­nate his con­tract af­ter re­duc­ing his func­tions.

The State has been or­dered to pay a lit­tle over $50,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to a wildlife farmer from San­ta Cruz, who lost a herd of deer af­ter his fence was dam­aged by a con­trac­tor of the Min­istry of Works and Trans­port. 

The State has been or­dered to pay $370,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to a med­ical lab­o­ra­to­ry tech­ni­cian whose trans­fer to a re­gion­al health au­thor­i­ty was de­layed for over 16 years. 

The North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA) has strong­ly re­ject­ed claims cir­cu­lat­ing on so­cial me­dia that three re­cent­ly hired nurs­es re­signed due to con­di­tions at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex (EWM­SC) in Mt Hope, in­sist­ing the de­par­tures were un­re­lat­ed to the new­ly opened Adult Med­ical Ward.

Works and In­fra­struc­ture Min­is­ter Jear­lean John says work­ers hired un­der the Gov­ern­ment’s Na­tion­al Re­cruit­ment Dri­ve are “do­ing a fan­tas­tic job,” even as some em­ploy­ees con­tin­ue to com­plain about de­layed pay­ments and un­cer­tain­ty over their con­tracts.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro and Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der are call­ing on cit­i­zens to hold each oth­er ac­count­able and en­sure those re­spon­si­ble for the crime sit­u­a­tion are iden­ti­fied and brought to jus­tice.

More than 200 peo­ple await­ing pros­thet­ic limbs are ex­pect­ed to ben­e­fit from the open­ing of the Na­tion­al Pros­thet­ics Cen­tre at Clarke Road, Pe­nal, Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe said yes­ter­day, as he de­scribed the fa­cil­i­ty as a ma­jor mile­stone in strength­en­ing health­care ser­vices in T&T.

In­dia’s Min­is­ter of Ex­ter­nal Af­fairs Dr Sub­rah­manyam Jais­hankar says Trinidad and To­ba­go stands to ben­e­fit from deep­er col­lab­o­ra­tion with In­dia in ar­eas rang­ing from dig­i­tal pay­ments and phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals to en­er­gy se­cu­ri­ty and re­new­able en­er­gy ini­tia­tives.

The ad­min­is­tra­tion of jus­tice in any ju­ris­dic­tion is sup­posed to be fair, im­par­tial and ac­ces­si­ble.

Po­lice said around 2.50am, a rel­a­tive was in the liv­ing room of their home when she heard sev­er­al loud ex­plo­sions, and lat­er dis­cov­ered Brath­waite on the ground out­side bleed­ing from gun­shot wounds.

$1 mil­lion in agro-pro­cess­ing equip­ment is be­ing used to boost the lo­cal food in­dus­try. On Sat­ur­day, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar opened the Brechin Cas­tle Agro-Pro­cess­ing Fa­cil­i­ty in Cou­va.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go prison sys­tem con­tin­ues to pour hun­dreds of mil­lions of dol­lars in­to re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion pro­grammes that, on pa­per, are de­signed to re­form of­fend­ers—but in prac­tice are be­ing over­whelmed by en­trenched gang cul­ture, low lit­er­a­cy lev­els, weak post-re­lease sup­port, and a sys­tem in­sid­ers claim is con­tin­u­ing to churn out crim­i­nals.