The State has been or­dered to pay al­most $100,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to a con­struc­tion work­er who was wrong­ful­ly ar­rest­ed and de­tained for al­leged­ly at­tempt­ing to sell equip­ment stolen from his em­ploy­er.

The State has been or­dered to pay al­most $100,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to a con­struc­tion work­er who was wrong­ful­ly ar­rest­ed and de­tained for al­leged­ly at­tempt­ing to sell equip­ment stolen from his em­ploy­er.

The Com­mis­sion of In­quiry (COI) in­to the Ju­ly 18 boat­ing in­ci­dent that left more than 100 peo­ple dead, heard on Wednes­day that the emer­gency bea­con on the fer­ry, the MV Bari­ma was not reg­is­tered.

Kenya’s Health Min­istry con­firmed the coun­try’s sec­ond Ebo­la case Wednes­day, say­ing a rel­a­tive of the man who died two days af­ter ar­riv­ing from Con­go had test­ed pos­i­tive while in quar­an­tine.

Par­ents of pupils at Fyz­abad Pres­by­ter­ian School are call­ing on the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion to in­ves­ti­gate al­leged bul­ly­ing in­ci­dents, in­clud­ing phys­i­cal as­saults which they say have left chil­dren in­jured, dis­tressed and afraid to at­tend class­es.

The Ch­agua­nas Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce (CCIC) has wel­comed the Gov­ern­ment’s ini­tial $20 mil­lion al­lo­ca­tion for the Ch­agua­nas Ring Road project, say­ing it could help ad­dress long­stand­ing traf­fic con­ges­tion af­fect­ing busi­ness­es in the bor­ough.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has an­nounced plans for the Gov­ern­ment to di­vest sev­er­al state-owned as­sets, in­clud­ing Na­tion­al Quar­ries Lim­it­ed, Hilton Trinidad, the Mag­dale­na Grand Beach and Golf Re­sort and the La Brea In­dus­tri­al De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny Ltd (LABID­CO).

To­ba­go's ac­com­mo­da­tion sec­tor is set for a ma­jor boost with the con­struc­tion of a $500 mil­lion Mar­riott re­sort at Rocky Point, a project ex­pect­ed to be com­plet­ed by 2029.

De­vel­op­ment fund­ing for all sev­en Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM)-con­trolled mu­nic­i­pal cor­po­ra­tions has been re­duced in the 2027 Bud­get, with their com­bined al­lo­ca­tion falling by $49.55 mil­lion, or 61 per cent, com­pared with the orig­i­nal pro­vi­sions for fis­cal 2026.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has ac­cused the Gov­ern­ment of bla­tant po­lit­i­cal dis­crim­i­na­tion in its al­lo­ca­tion of de­vel­op­ment fund­ing and is de­mand­ing that it pub­lish the cri­te­ria used to de­ter­mine how pub­lic mon­ey is dis­trib­uted.

Port-of-Spain May­or Chin­ua Al­leyne has pledged to join trade unions in their planned Oc­to­ber 30 protest against the Gov­ern­ment, claim­ing work­ers, fam­i­lies and res­i­dents in Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM)-con­trolled mu­nic­i­pal­i­ties are be­ing sub­ject­ed to po­lit­i­cal dis­crim­i­na­tion.

The Sen­ate yes­ter­day passed the Mu­nic­i­pal Cor­po­ra­tions (Amend­ment) Bill, 2026, paving the way for Ch­agua­nas to be el­e­vat­ed to city sta­tus and for the cre­ation of four new bor­oughs.