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.

Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) chair­man Mar­vin Gon­za­les has brand­ed Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar a "des­per­ate hyp­ocrite," ac­cus­ing her of turn­ing a blind eye to al­leged wrong­do­ing with­in her own ad­min­is­tra­tion while con­demn­ing crit­ics of the Gov­ern­ment over last week's con­tro­ver­sial protest linked to Ka­ia Sealy.

So­cial ac­tivist Wen­dell Ever­s­ley says Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) Roger Gas­pard has as­sured him that the pub­lic will see ac­tion in the long-run­ning Life­S­port mat­ter be­fore the end of 2026.

The Min­istry of Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion has ex­tend­ed au­tho­ri­sa­tion for pri­vate mo­torists to use the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route (PBR) un­til 11.59 pm to­mor­row, Tues­day, June 2.