Sec­re­tary of En­vi­ron­ment Dar­ren Hen­ry says the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) has no in­ten­tion of des­ig­nat­ing any beach ex­clu­sive­ly for jet ski use.

A fe­male pas­sen­ger col­lapsed aboard the Buc­coo Reef yes­ter­day, as it made its way on the 6.30 am sail­ing from Port-of-Spain to Scar­bor­ough.

A hand­ful of health­care work­ers turned up for last night’s can­dle­light vig­il as part of their on­go­ing wage dis­pute with the North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty and the Min­istry of Health.

Con­trac­tor Su­per In­dus­tri­al Ser­vices (SIS) has been grant­ed per­mis­sion to pur­sue a fi­nal ap­peal be­fore the Ju­di­cial Com­mit­tee of the Privy Coun­cil over a long-run­ning dis­pute with the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC) in­volv­ing the con­tro­ver­sial Beetham Wa­ter Treat­ment Plant.

An Air Guard mem­ber has lost his le­gal chal­lenge against the Trinidad and To­ba­go De­fence Force (TTDF) over his dis­charge for al­leged dis­ci­pli­nary breach­es and poor per­for­mance.

A spe­cial re­serve po­lice of­fi­cer has been ar­rest­ed and charged fol­low­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­duct­ed by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice’s Spe­cial Vic­tims De­part­ment.

Fran­cois Bap­tiste, 46, of Ram­lal Street, Chick­land Road, Freeport, was killed when his ve­hi­cle col­lid­ed with a con­crete bar­ri­er along Mis­sion Road, Freeport, around 1 pm yes­ter­day.

A 32-year-old po­lice of­fi­cer was found dead in a sus­pect­ed hang­ing at his Princes Town home on Tues­day morn­ing.

A 28-year-old man is nurs­ing se­ri­ous in­juries af­ter he was re­peat­ed­ly chopped dur­ing a vi­o­lent al­ter­ca­tion with a male rel­a­tive at his Moru­ga home on Wednes­day morn­ing.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing in­to the rob­bery of a car­go ves­sel and its crew, af­ter armed men board­ed the ship while it was docked in the Port-of-Spain Har­bour over the week­end.

The pub­lic is be­ing urged to re­main vig­i­lant as law en­force­ment of­fi­cials warn that ex­tor­tion is evolv­ing and tak­ing on mul­ti­ple forms, with crim­i­nals in­creas­ing­ly us­ing un­con­ven­tion­al meth­ods to iden­ti­fy and ex­ploit vic­tims.

The Of­fice of Pro­cure­ment Reg­u­la­tion (OPR) has for­mal­ly di­rect­ed the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) to hold on the award of TT$3.4 bil­lion in hous­ing con­tracts pend­ing a com­pre­hen­sive re­view of pro­cure­ment pro­ceed­ings.