Sev­er­al spe­cial ed­u­ca­tion in­struc­tors at­tached to the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion have been out of work since Au­gust, de­spite be­ing suc­cess­ful­ly rein­ter­viewed for re­newed three-year con­tracts last year.

The Gov­ern­ment has blocked ac­cess to in­for­ma­tion about re­port­ed Unit­ed States mil­i­tary ac­tiv­i­ty in Trinidad and To­ba­go, re­fus­ing to re­lease avi­a­tion records and in­vok­ing sweep­ing na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty ex­emp­tions, even as in­ter­na­tion­al re­ports, pub­lic avi­a­tion da­ta and the Gov­ern­ment’s own past ad­mis­sions point to US mil­i­tary move­ment through this coun­try.

A mere week af­ter Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro was oust­ed in an in­ter­ven­tion by the US mil­i­tary, there seems to be the be­gin­ning of a diplo­mat­ic thaw be­tween the US and the Bo­li­var­i­an Re­pub­lic of Venezuela.

Lawyers rep­re­sent­ing for­mer Cen­tral Bank gov­er­nor Dr Alivin Hi­laire have stat­ed that they are anx­ious for his law­suit over his ter­mi­na­tion to go to tri­al.