An in­fra­struc­tur­al prob­lem has caused the tem­po­rary clo­sure of the re­cent­ly opened Good­wood Mi­cro Po­lice Post.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has de­fend­ed the Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to di­vest sev­er­al state-owned en­ter­pris­es, point­ing to the fi­nan­cial de­te­ri­o­ra­tion of Trinidad Lake As­phalt Lim­it­ed (Lake As­phalt) as ev­i­dence of the risks of al­low­ing loss-mak­ing com­pa­nies to re­ly on tax­pay­er fund­ing.

Two Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) may­ors are push­ing back at Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar af­ter she ac­cused Op­po­si­tion-con­trolled mu­nic­i­pal cor­po­ra­tions of “mak­ing fools of them­selves” by com­plain­ing about bud­get cuts, de­spite re­ceiv­ing $490 mil­lion more than their Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) coun­ter­parts.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Na­tion­al Nurs­es’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTNNA) has warned that nurs­es may take fur­ther ac­tion over out­stand­ing wage ar­rears and a pro­posed ten per cent wage in­crease, po­ten­tial­ly with­out warn­ing.

Se­nior Coun­sel Anand Ram­lo­gan is call­ing for the Pub­lic Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PSC) to be dis­band­ed af­ter his client re­mained un­de­feat­ed in an al­most two-decade le­gal bat­tle over be­ing deemed to have aban­doned her job af­ter miss­ing work for sev­er­al months be­cause of in­jury and preg­nan­cy.

The Unit­ed States has an­nounced hun­dreds of mil­lions of dol­lars in new com­mit­ments for Caribbean health care, se­cu­ri­ty and dig­i­tal in­fra­struc­ture, as Wash­ing­ton seeks to strength­en its strate­gic ties with the re­gion.

The dis­ap­pear­ance of two To­ba­go fish­er­men has tak­en a phys­i­cal and emo­tion­al toll on their rel­a­tives.

A com­plaint seek­ing to sus­pend or re­voke car­di­ol­o­gist Dr Con­rad Mur­ray’s tem­po­rary med­ical li­cence be­cause of his manslaugh­ter con­vic­tion in con­nec­tion with the death of US pop su­per­star Michael Jack­son has been dis­missed.

Pan Trin­ba­go will par­tic­i­pate in To­ba­go Car­ni­val af­ter the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly set­tled the or­gan­i­sa­tion’s out­stand­ing pay­ments. Its Pan and Pow­der event is sched­uled for Oc­to­ber 31.

Se­nior Coun­sel Anand Ram­lo­gan is call­ing for the Pub­lic Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PSC) to be dis­band­ed af­ter his client emerged vic­to­ri­ous in an al­most two-decade le­gal bat­tle over the com­mis­sion’s de­ci­sion to de­clare that she had aban­doned her job af­ter be­ing ab­sent for sev­er­al months due to in­jury and preg­nan­cy.

Prison of­fi­cers in­ter­cept­ed three pack­ages con­tain­ing cig­a­rettes, wrap­ping pa­pers, sus­pect­ed drugs and lighters thrown over the perime­ter wall of the Port of Spain Prison ear­ly Thurs­day morn­ing.

For­mer Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro in­sist­ed in court on Thurs­day that new­ly un­sealed tor­ture al­le­ga­tions against him and his wife were “false ac­cu­sa­tions.”