Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials ap­pear to be at odds over re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for is­sues raised by maxi taxi op­er­a­tors dur­ing this week’s in­dus­tri­al ac­tion.

For many com­muters this week, get­ting to work, school or prob­a­bly try­ing to make it to an ap­point­ment on time has be­come a re­al chal­lenge, as maxi taxi op­er­a­tors take in­dus­tri­al ac­tion across Trinidad.

Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion Min­is­ter Eli Za­k­our yes­ter­day de­clined to com­ment on the on­go­ing ne­go­ti­a­tions with rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the var­i­ous maxi taxi routes as day two of the maxi taxi strike con­tin­ued.

For­mer Trans­port Min­is­ter Jack Warn­er is urg­ing the Gov­ern­ment to re­ject calls by some maxi taxi op­er­a­tors to in­crease the high­way speed lim­it for maxi taxis from 65 kilo­me­tres per hour to 80 km/h, ar­gu­ing that the in­dus­try must first demon­strate it can con­sis­tent­ly com­ply with the ex­ist­ing law.

Unit­ed States Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump has nom­i­nat­ed Trinidad-born for­mer Flori­da lieu­tenant gov­er­nor Jen­nifer John­son-Car­roll to serve as the next Unit­ed States am­bas­sador to Trinidad and To­ba­go.

The on­go­ing maxi taxi strike has trig­gered a surge in de­mand for al­ter­na­tive trans­porta­tion ser­vices, with ride-share op­er­a­tors re­port­ing in­creased ac­tiv­i­ty while taxi dri­vers voiced sup­port for the con­cerns raised by maxi op­er­a­tors.

The Court of Ap­peal has ruled that a for­mer Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) pol­i­cy of pub­lish­ing pho­tographs of cit­i­zens charged with crimes was un­law­ful.

A woman from Tacarigua has won a prop­er­ty dis­pute with her broth­er over his con­tin­ued res­i­dence on a prop­er­ty that their moth­er left her. 

The parish priest of St Mary’s RC Church in St James, is be­ing hailed for his hero­ic ac­tions af­ter pre­vent­ing the theft of a taber­na­cle dur­ing a break-in ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the dis­cov­ery of a de­com­posed body at Blas Cha Cha, Pe­nal Rock Road, Moru­ga.

Po­lice have re­cov­ered a firearm be­lieved to have been stolen from the San Fer­nan­do Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Sta­tion and de­tained three men dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in St James.

Twen­ty-one spent shells, in­clud­ing one with TTPS mark­ings, were among bal­lis­tic items re­cov­ered fol­low­ing a dou­ble homi­cide and shoot­ing in­ci­dent in Pe­nal on Sun­day night, in which two men were killed and an­oth­er wound­ed.