Sev­en men have been placed un­der Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders un­der the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions, with au­thor­i­ties link­ing them to sev­er­al or­gan­ised crime groups.

Pro­duc­ers say ris­ing de­mand, cost­ly im­ports and poor chick qual­i­ty threat­en food se­cu­ri­ty

Trinidad and To­ba­go Farm­ers’ Union pres­i­dent Shi­raz Khan has warned that the cur­rent chick­en short­age could re­cur with­in the next six to 12 months if Gov­ern­ment and stake­hold­ers fail to ad­dress long­stand­ing is­sues in the poul­try sec­tor.

Fire­works will re­turn to the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah for this year’s In­de­pen­dence Day cel­e­bra­tions, with Gov­ern­ment plan­ning a mix of tra­di­tion­al and low-noise fire­works, along­side a drone dis­play and cul­tur­al show­case.

Exxon­Mo­bil has praised the speed at which it was able to se­cure ap­provals to be­gin seis­mic ac­tiv­i­ties in Trinidad and To­ba­go, with the en­er­gy gi­ant now ex­press­ing op­ti­mism that its on­go­ing tech­ni­cal work could even­tu­al­ly lead to a hy­dro­car­bon dis­cov­ery.

The new ter­mi­nal at the ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port in To­ba­go is ex­pect­ed to open be­fore Oc­to­ber.

In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tor An­tho­ny Vieira (SC) has rec­om­mend­ed con­fi­den­tial me­di­a­tion to re­pair strained re­la­tion­ships with­in the Caribbean Court of Jus­tice (CCJ), stress­ing that if cred­i­ble al­le­ga­tions re­main, they must be ad­dressed through the for­mal mech­a­nisms es­tab­lished by the CCJ Agree­ment.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar yes­ter­day called on mem­bers of the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) and the com­mu­ni­ties served by par­ty stal­wart Vashti Sookoo to con­tin­ue her lega­cy of ser­vice.

De­spite be­ing a trained pro­fes­sion­al in safe­ty, process safe­ty, and emer­gency re­sponse, Trinida­di­an char­tered en­gi­neer Wayne Mo­han—who sur­vived Colom­bia’s dead­ly earth­quake—is urg­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go au­thor­i­ties and fam­i­lies to strength­en their pre­pared­ness for a ma­jor seis­mic event.

The Trin­ba­go Uni­fied Ca­lyp­so­ni­ans’ Or­gan­i­sa­tion (TU­CO) yes­ter­day re­mind­ed stake­hold­ers that South/Cen­tral Zone chair­man Steve “Ras Kom­man­da” Pas­call re­mains in of­fice, and con­firmed that a fol­low-up meet­ing will be held on Sun­day at the San Fer­nan­do Cre­ative Arts Cen­tre at 10 am to ad­dress on­go­ing is­sues.

Unit­ed Na­tions Young Leader An­thuri­um Lewis, 17, stood out among her peers on Wednes­day at the an­nu­al To­ba­go Youth Awards at the Mag­dale­na Grand Beach and Golf Re­sort in Low­lands, To­ba­go.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar met with Exxon­Mo­bil Trinidad and To­ba­go Op­er­a­tions Man­ag­er Dr Bram Willem­sen to dis­cuss the com­pa­ny’s on­go­ing ac­tiv­i­ties and fu­ture op­por­tu­ni­ties in the en­er­gy sec­tor.