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.

The Gov­ern­ment is seek­ing to re­as­sure the pub­lic that en­vi­ron­men­tal, tech­ni­cal and reg­u­la­to­ry con­cerns sur­round­ing its pro­posed ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence da­ta cen­tre projects will be thor­ough­ly ex­am­ined be­fore any con­struc­tion be­gins.

A Change.org pe­ti­tion call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to halt ap­proval of pro­posed ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence (AI) da­ta cen­tres in Trinidad and To­ba­go has at­tract­ed more than 3,200 ver­i­fied sig­na­tures less than a day af­ter it was launched.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) has is­sued a Yel­low Lev­el Lo­calised Flood Alert from 5:00 am to 4:00 pm on Mon­day, Ju­ly 13, warn­ing that more rain could trig­ger flood­ing in some com­mu­ni­ties.

A busi­ness­man from cen­tral Trinidad, sus­pect­ed of op­er­at­ing a broth­el and en­gag­ing in hu­man traf­fick­ing, has been grant­ed per­mis­sion to pur­sue a law­suit over be­ing de­tained un­der a Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO) for the past three months.