Down­town Own­ers and Mer­chants As­so­ci­a­tion (DO­MA) pres­i­dent Gre­go­ry Aboud says be­tween 15 and 20 per cent of com­muters head­ing in­to the cap­i­tal were late for work yes­ter­day, as the na­tion­wide maxi taxi protest dis­rupt­ed trans­port ser­vices.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Na­tion­al Coun­cil of Par­ent Teacher As­so­ci­a­tions (TTNCP­TA) has ap­pealed to maxi taxi op­er­a­tors to ex­er­cise re­straint in their protest ac­tion, not­ing that stu­dents are cur­rent­ly sit­ting the Caribbean Sec­ondary Ed­u­ca­tion Cer­tifi­cate (CSEC) and Caribbean Ad­vanced Pro­fi­cien­cy Ex­am­i­na­tion (CAPE) ex­am­i­na­tions.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Blind Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer, Ken­neth Suratt, says the on­go­ing three-day maxi taxi strike has high­light­ed the unique chal­lenges faced by per­sons with dis­abil­i­ties when pub­lic trans­porta­tion ser­vices are dis­rupt­ed.

For­mer min­is­ter of works and trans­port Ro­han Sinanan says the con­cerns raised by maxi taxi op­er­a­tors are not friv­o­lous, al­though he would not light­ly sup­port in­dus­tri­al ac­tion that leaves com­muters strand­ed.

As cli­mate change in­ten­si­fies storms, flood­ing, droughts and coastal ero­sion across the Caribbean, re­gion­al lead­ers are call­ing for a fun­da­men­tal shift in how coun­tries pre­pare for dis­as­ters, from re­act­ing to crises to build­ing re­silience be­fore they oc­cur.

Six peo­ple were killed fol­low­ing a vi­o­lent night in south Trinidad in three sep­a­rate in­ci­dents in less than sev­en hours, leav­ing po­lice scram­bling be­tween a stab­bing, a dou­ble mur­der and a triple killing. And a man was al­so found dead in Mor­vant as the week­end end­ed with a killing spree.

Sev­en­teen for­mer sol­diers have lost their law­suit seek­ing al­most $55 mil­lion in re­tire­ment ben­e­fits they nar­row­ly missed out on be­cause they served just short of the 20 years re­quired to qual­i­fy.

The fa­ther of a man, who was shot dead by po­lice of­fi­cers along­side an­oth­er man in Moru­ga last year, has filed a law­suit against the Of­fice of the Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice over its re­fusal to dis­close in­for­ma­tion re­lat­ed to the probe in­to the duo’s deaths.

Ac­tivist Alyssa Phillip and her moth­er Camille Cares­quero plead­ed not guilty to two of­fences yes­ter­day af­ter she ap­peared be­fore Mag­is­trate In­di­ra Misir-Go­sine.

Eighty-year-old San­cha­ree Ram­cha­ran clings to hope that one day her son, Omar­dath Ram­cha­ran, will re­turn home, but she fears that some­thing bad may have hap­pened to him.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) says it ful­ly sup­ports the use of body-worn cam­eras and has al­ready be­gun the pro­cure­ment process, invit­ing firms to ex­press in­ter­est in sup­ply­ing the tech­nol­o­gy as part of a broad­er push to mod­ernise polic­ing.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath is urg­ing pub­lic fig­ures to be­come bet­ter in­formed be­fore com­ment­ing on sen­si­tive na­tion­al is­sues, fol­low­ing re­marks by Bmo­bile brand am­bas­sador and so­ca artiste Nailah Black­man on the con­tro­ver­sial Ka­ia Sealy mat­ter.