As the largest cli­mate change con­fer­ence, COP29 (Con­fer­ence of Par­ties), kicked off yes­ter­day in Baku, Azer­bai­jan, T&T ne­go­tia­tors hope for eas­i­er ac­cess to cli­mate fi­nance and a stronger glob­al plan to mit­i­gate the im­pacts of a warm­ing world.

A pub­lic ser­vant who took the Min­istry of Labour to court af­ter she al­leged her em­ploy­ment rights had been un­fair­ly vi­o­lat­ed was yes­ter­day award­ed $150,000 in com­pen­sato­ry dam­ages.

The Na­tion­al Lot­ter­ies Con­trol Board (NL­CB) is stand­ing firm on its lat­est poli­cies for Play Whe and Lot­to agents.

Po­lice are try­ing to de­ter­mine ex­act­ly what hap­pened in Mor­vant on Sun­day night, when an al­leged at­tack­er lost his life dur­ing a re­port­ed strug­gle with the home­own­er.

Ari­ma po­lice of­fi­cers have launched a ma­jor in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the kid­nap­ping of three Venezue­lan women, who were brazen­ly snatched on Sun­day evening in full view of passers­by.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors are await­ing in­struc­tions from the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions on whether to charge a 35-year-old sus­pect in con­nec­tion with the death of Po­lice Con­sta­ble Kr­ish­na Ba­na­har. 

Po­lice have ar­rest­ed two in­di­vid­u­als and seized two firearms along with am­mu­ni­tion dur­ing sep­a­rate in­ci­dents in the East­ern Di­vi­sion.

The Uni­ver­si­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (UTT) has ap­point­ed Pro­fes­sors Raf­fie Ho­sein and An­drew Jupiter as Ho­n­ourary Pro­fes­sors in Teach­ing and Re­search with­in its En­er­gy Sys­tems En­gi­neer­ing Unit. Their three-year tenure, start­ing on Sep­tem­ber 1, 2024, will sup­port the uni­ver­si­ty’s en­er­gy pro­gramme. This was dis­closed in a me­dia re­lease is­sued by UTT on Mon­day.

A new study by the In­ter Amer­i­can De­vel­op­ment Bank (IDB) has found that Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean so­cial and eco­nom­ic de­vel­op­ment re­mains heav­i­ly bur­dened by crime and vi­o­lence.

The TTPS will not charge any­one for the death of Jay­den Lalchan cit­ing in­suf­fi­cient ev­i­dence to prove bul­ly­ing played a role in his death.

The S&P 500 was up 0.3% in ear­ly trad­ing, com­ing off a 4.7% spurt last week spurred by Don­ald Trump’s pres­i­den­tial vic­to­ry and a cut to in­ter­est rates by the Fed­er­al Re­serve to bol­ster the econ­o­my. The Dow Jones In­dus­tri­al Av­er­age was up 338 points, or 0.8%, as of 9:35 a.m. East­ern time, and the Nas­daq com­pos­ite was 0.3% high­er.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has paid trib­ute for the 2024 Na­tion­al Day of Re­mem­brance, which ho­n­ours mem­bers of the armed forces who served and per­ished in World War I (1914-1918) and World War II (1939-1945).