Truck­ers are in a buoy­ant mood fol­low­ing a meet­ing with Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine yes­ter­day aboard the Blue Wave Har­mo­ny as it sailed from Port-of-Spain to Scar­bor­ough.

A man from South Oropouche has threat­ened to sue the State over an un­pro­voked beat­ing by prison of­fi­cers while he was on re­mand for a rob­bery charge. 

A 36-year-old fac­to­ry work­er from Ch­agua­nas has been ac­quit­ted of be­ing in pos­ses­sion of a se­mi-au­to­mat­ic pis­tol mod­i­fied to be ful­ly au­to­mat­ic.

The Con­trac­tors and Gen­er­al Work­ers Union (CG­WU) is call­ing on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo to in­ter­vene in the on­go­ing de­lay of back pay and salary in­creas­es owed to dai­ly-paid work­ers at the San Fer­nan­do City Cor­po­ra­tion (SFCC).

St Joseph’s Con­vent San Fer­nan­do is shap­ing more than high-achiev­ing stu­dents—it is cul­ti­vat­ing young women ground­ed in char­ac­ter, dis­ci­pline and faith, prin­ci­pal Joanne Bak­er said on Wednes­day.

The Min­istry of the Peo­ple, So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices (MPS­DFS) has pro­vid­ed more than $200,000 in Home Re­pair and Dis­as­ter Gen­er­al As­sis­tance Grants to sup­port vul­ner­a­ble house­holds in the Princes Town re­gion.

The Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture and Fish­eries has re­sumed night trap­ping ex­er­cis­es in the South-East and South-West quad­rants of Trinidad as part of the na­tion­al Vam­pire Bat Pop­u­la­tion Con­trol Pro­gramme.

A 50-year-old busi­ness­man from Gold­en Grove, Canaan, has been fined $100,000 af­ter plead­ing guilty to firearm and am­mu­ni­tion charges at the Scar­bor­ough Mag­is­trates’ Court.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice has con­firmed the safe re­cov­ery of 57-year-old Suraj Ram­lakhan fol­low­ing a mul­ti-agency, in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tion in the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion on Wednes­day night.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) says a 33-year-old man has been charged in con­nec­tion with a store break­ing and lar­ce­ny at a jew­ellery shop in Princes Town.

Min­is­ter of the Peo­ple, So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices, Van­dana Mo­hit, has con­demned com­ments made by for­mer Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley to­wards cur­rent Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar.

Min­is­ter of Jus­tice De­vesh Ma­haraj says leg­is­la­tion to in­tro­duce a pa­role sys­tem in Trinidad and To­ba­go will soon be laid in Par­lia­ment as part of a broad­er ef­fort to re­form the crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem and re­duce de­lays.