A po­lice of­fi­cer has lost his le­gal chal­lenge over be­ing re­tired on med­ical grounds af­ter he missed work for over a decade fol­low­ing a se­ri­ous job-re­lat­ed car ac­ci­dent.

The coun­try’s high­est court has ruled that the tim­ing of reg­is­tra­tion of com­pet­ing in­ter­ests in prop­er­ty de­ter­mines which claim takes prece­dence.

A fund­ing short­fall at the Port-of-Spain City Cor­po­ra­tion (PoSCC) could trig­ger in­dus­tri­al un­rest and dis­rupt garbage col­lec­tion in the cap­i­tal with­in weeks, as of­fi­cials warn the body may be un­able to meet pay­roll be­yond the end of May.

Trinidad and To­ba­go Na­tion­al Nurs­es’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTNNA) pres­i­dent Idi Stu­art is warn­ing of fur­ther dis­rup­tion across the coun­try’s health­care sys­tem fol­low­ing last Fri­day’s large-scale protest in Port-of-Spain.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the death of cy­clist Col­in Wil­son are con­tin­u­ing at Skin­ner Park, with parts of the San Fer­nan­do sport­ing fa­cil­i­ty now re­strict­ed as au­thor­i­ties ex­am­ine the cir­cum­stances of the in­ci­dent.

A man pur­port­ing to be a kid­nap vic­tim and his sus­pect­ed cap­tor re­mained in po­lice cus­tody up to yes­ter­day af­ter­noon, as they were ques­tioned by po­lice in the mur­der of a St Joseph mur­der last week.

A 63-year-old man was killed af­ter his ve­hi­cle crashed in­to a ditch off the high­way near La Brea on Sat­ur­day.

For­mer hous­ing min­is­ter and Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment Camille Robin­son-Reg­is has raised con­cerns over the pro­posed award of $3.4 bil­lion in pub­lic hous­ing con­tracts to 11 con­trac­tors, ques­tion­ing the trans­paren­cy and le­gal­i­ty of the process.

A Rousil­lac man was killed af­ter his ve­hi­cle crashed in­to a ditch off the high­way near La Bea on Sat­ur­day.

The ex­er­cise took place be­tween 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. and in­volved of­fi­cers of the North­ern Di­vi­sion Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment, North­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force North, North­ern Di­vi­sion In­tel­li­gence and Op­er­a­tions Unit, Ari­ma Charge Room, Ari­ma Traf­fic Branch and San Raphael Po­lice Sta­tion.

Po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst Derek Ram­samooj says Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar must aban­don what he de­scribed as her “Trump-like” and ego­tis­ti­cal ap­proach to Cari­com and ac­cept that Trinidad and To­ba­go is no longer the re­gion­al su­per­pow­er it once was.

The Na­tion­al Trust of Trinidad and To­ba­go said it has be­come aware of re­ports and ob­ser­va­tions of per­sons climb­ing on­to mon­u­ments. It said mem­bers of the pub­lic raised con­cerns about these ac­tions.