Po­lice and road safe­ty stake­hold­ers say the coun­try’s lat­est road deaths have again raised con­cerns about speed­ing, seat­belt use and care­less dri­ving and are urg­ing mo­torists to ex­er­cise cau­tion on the na­tion’s roads.

Bal­lot pa­pers ran out twice at Ply­mouth An­gli­can Pri­ma­ry School polling sta­tion yes­ter­day, as a high turnout of vot­ers for the in­ter­nal elec­tions caught the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment To­ba­go Coun­cil off guard.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos, CMC—Venezuela’s act­ing Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­driguez ar­rived in Bar­ba­dos last night, her sec­ond vis­it to a Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com) coun­try since she was sworn in­to of­fice in Jan­u­ary, fol­low­ing the Unit­ed States in­va­sion of the South Amer­i­can coun­try that led to the de­ten­tion of for­mer pres­i­dent Nico­las Maduro.

A San Fer­nan­do com­mu­ni­ty is dis­put­ing a po­lice ac­count of a fa­tal shoot­ing, in­sist­ing 45-year-old Shiv­nath Jo­gie was un­jus­ti­fi­ably killed at his home, as calls grow for body cam­eras to bring clar­i­ty to such en­coun­ters.

The mat­ter con­cern­ing the Port-of-Spain Wa­ter­front De­vel­op­ment Ltd (POSWDL), a sub­sidiary of the Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion of T&T (UDe­COTT), as out­lined in the Au­di­tor Gen­er­al's Re­port, has sur­faced as a sig­nif­i­cant point of con­tention re­gard­ing the trans­paren­cy of sov­er­eign debt.

It was a night of laugh­ter, nos­tal­gia and trib­ute as 95 The Ul­ti­mate One marked its 50th an­niver­sary, cel­e­brat­ing a lega­cy that has car­ried T&T through the shift from tra­di­tion­al ra­dio to a fast-evolv­ing dig­i­tal age at Wood­ford Café, Ch­agua­nas, on Sat­ur­day night.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) chair­man Mar­vin Gon­za­les says the par­ty was on­ly in­formed by for­mer prime min­is­ter Stu­art Young that he would be out of the coun­try, as ques­tions con­tin­ue over Young’s meet-up with Venezuela’s act­ing Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez last week.

Flash­ing every ten sec­onds on the screen be­hind the speak­er were the words “Bet­ter Days Ahead.”

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Copy­right Col­lec­tion Or­gan­i­sa­tion (TTC­CO) has thrown its full sup­port be­hind Gov­ern­ment’s pro­posed plan to re­place the Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion (NCC) with a new Na­tion­al Fes­ti­vals Com­mis­sion, de­scrib­ing the move as a for­ward-think­ing and nec­es­sary step for the coun­try’s cul­tur­al and cre­ative in­dus­tries.

Reef tour op­er­a­tors and jet ski own­ers are fum­ing over the in­crease in fines out­lined in the new To­ba­go Ma­rine Park Bill.

The re­cip­i­ent of a na­tion­al bur­sary for ter­tiary ed­u­ca­tion, who could not ac­cess it be­cause of vary­ing po­si­tions tak­en by the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion, has been award­ed $500,000 in com­pen­sa­tion.

Mem­bers of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) moved swift­ly to res­cue a four-year-old boy af­ter a ve­hi­cle theft es­ca­lat­ed in­to an ab­duc­tion on Sat­ur­day af­ter­noon.