While res­i­dents of Dun­don­ald Hill, St James, con­tin­ue to grieve the mur­der of 11-month-old Jay­den Sut­ton, they say they con­tin­ue to live as best as they can, al­though the fear that blood­shed will con­tin­ue de­spite an on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE) lingers.

Po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tors are try­ing to con­firm the iden­ti­ty of a woman whose body was found along the North Coast Road on Wednes­day night.

Rakesh Jag­ger­nauth ap­peared in court yes­ter­day, charged with the mur­der of Ce­dros crick­eter Rashme Deoa­jit.

Two Venezue­lans were ar­rest­ed fol­low­ing a high-speed chase and ex­change of gun­fire with po­lice, af­ter a ve­hi­cle was stolen from a PH taxi dri­ver at gun­point in Princes Town on Wednes­day night. No one was in­jured but po­lice re­cov­ered two firearms.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has praised the con­tri­bu­tion of health­care work­ers in her East­er mes­sage, even as she con­tin­ues to re­main silent on the im­passe be­tween nurs­es and the North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA).

Trinidad and To­ba­go Na­tion­al Nurs­es As­so­ci­a­tion (TTNNA) pres­i­dent Idi Stu­art is rais­ing se­ri­ous con­cerns over re­ports that the North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA) is mov­ing to re­cruit more than 100 mid­wives from In­dia, de­scrib­ing the de­vel­op­ment as both in­ad­e­quate and dis­re­spect­ful to lo­cal health­care pro­fes­sion­als.

Gov­ern­ment is head­ing to Par­lia­ment to strength­en laws aimed at crack­ing down on what it de­scribes as a “wa­ter theft rack­et” by pri­vate con­trac­tors.

Ho­tels, guest­hous­es and vil­las in To­ba­go are ex­pe­ri­enc­ing high oc­cu­pan­cy lev­els for the East­er week­end.

Pub­lic In­fra­struc­ture Sec­re­tary Nathisha Charles-Pan­tin says the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) has been car­ry­ing out patch­ing and paving works across the is­land as part of on­go­ing ef­forts to im­prove the road net­work.

The Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Work­ers’ Union (CWU) is urg­ing the Joint Trade Union Move­ment (JTUM) to ac­tive­ly de­fend work­ers’ rights, de­spite the coali­tion the or­gan­i­sa­tion has formed with the Gov­ern­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go.

The Gov­ern­ment is mov­ing to in­tro­duce leg­is­la­tion to sup­port the im­ple­men­ta­tion of an Ad­vanced Pas­sen­ger In­for­ma­tion Sys­tem (APIS) as part of ef­forts to strength­en bor­der se­cu­ri­ty and com­bat transna­tion­al crime.

The Gov­ern­ment is set to over­haul Trinidad and To­ba­go’s con­struc­tion per­mit­ting sys­tem, with Cab­i­net ap­prov­ing the re­moval of a long-stand­ing pub­lic health ap­proval re­quire­ment in a bid to cut de­lays and stim­u­late de­vel­op­ment.