The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion and the Teach­ing Ser­vice Com­mis­sion have been strong­ly crit­i­cised over their re­peat­ed fail­ure to abide by con­sec­u­tive rul­ings by judges over re­assess­ing a sec­ondary school teacher for retroac­tive pro­mo­tion. 

The fa­tal shoot­ing of Steve Ghany Ju­nior—killed dur­ing a six-hour do­mes­tic or­deal at his home ear­li­er this month—has be­come a cat­a­lyst for a new na­tion­al push to con­front do­mes­tic vi­o­lence, as a coali­tion of le­gal and men­tal health pro­fes­sion­als move to turn tragedy in­to re­form.

The Gov­ern­ment has moved to sig­nif­i­cant­ly over­haul Trinidad and To­ba­go’s labour and sev­er­ance frame­work, with Labour Min­is­ter Leroy Bap­tiste an­nounc­ing that long-await­ed amend­ments to re­trench­ment leg­is­la­tion have now been laid in Par­lia­ment.

Re­tired work­ers from the Na­tion­al Main­te­nance Train­ing and Se­cu­ri­ty Com­pa­ny Ltd (MTS) on Fri­day staged a protest out­side the MTS Plaza, Aranguez, call­ing for an­swers on when they will be paid their gra­tu­ity.

Fear now grips sev­er­al fam­i­lies in Kan­hai Trace, South Bar­rack­pore, af­ter a land de­vel­op­er al­leged­ly blocked a wa­ter­course, which res­i­dents fear could turn their com­mu­ni­ty in­to a flood dis­as­ter zone with the next heavy rain­fall.

Po­lice are search­ing for the dri­ver of a van which struck and killed a 30-year-old house­wife in Pe­nal on Sat­ur­day night.

The Min­istry of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment (MoRDLG) has ex­pressed deep sor­row fol­low­ing the killing of a Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice of­fi­cer in the line of du­ty at the San Fer­nan­do Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Sta­tion on Sun­day.

The Min­istry of De­fence has ac­ti­vat­ed a na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty re­sponse fol­low­ing the death of a mu­nic­i­pal po­lice of­fi­cer at­tached to the San Fer­nan­do Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Sta­tion.

Chair­man of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment Mar­vin Gon­za­les has called for im­me­di­ate ac­tion fol­low­ing two in­ci­dents in­volv­ing a dis­cov­ery in Cu­mu­to and the killing of a po­lice of­fi­cer at a sta­tion.

Leader of the Op­po­si­tion Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has called for ac­tion fol­low­ing the killing of Act­ing Cor­po­ral Anusha Ever­s­ley in­side the San Fer­nan­do City Po­lice Sta­tion.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der says, de­spite this morn­ing's brazen at­tack in which a po­lice of­fi­cer was found dead in the San Fer­nan­do Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Sta­tion, he re­mains con­fi­dent in the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS).

The T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has launched an ur­gent in­ves­ti­ga­tion fol­low­ing a grim dis­cov­ery at the Cu­mu­to Ceme­tery yes­ter­day—af­ter two work­ers from a pop­u­lar fu­ner­al home were found il­le­gal­ly dis­pos­ing of 56 dead bod­ies.