Ro­man Catholic arch­bish­op, Ja­son Gor­don, has chal­lenged cit­i­zens to live clos­er to the res­ur­rec­tion light. His state­ment came as the head of the Catholic Church in this coun­try de­liv­ered his East­er homi­ly yes­ter­day at the Cathe­dral of the Im­mac­u­late Con­cep­tion in down­town Port-of-Spain.

An in­ter­im in­junc­tion has been grant­ed against Now TV To­ba­go, a me­dia com­pa­ny formed 37 days ago, over the pub­li­ca­tion of al­leged defam­a­to­ry state­ments against Mil­ford Road Es­planade Lim­it­ed chair­man Kevon McKen­na.

Chair of the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com) Dr Ter­rance Drew has is­sued a mes­sage fol­low­ing the death of for­mer Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al Rod­er­ick Rain­ford.

What be­gan as a mo­ment of pride and ex­cite­ment for Tri­cia Jef­fers, the wife of cy­clist Collin Wil­son, quick­ly turned to tragedy as she wit­nessed in re­al time the ac­ci­dent that claimed her hus­band’s life.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) is cau­tion­ing the pub­lic about a scam in­volv­ing the im­per­son­ation of the Min­is­ter of Works and In­fra­struc­ture, Jear­lean John.

A San Fer­nan­do po­lice of­fi­cer is in crit­i­cal con­di­tion af­ter be­ing shot dur­ing an op­er­a­tion in La Ro­maine late Fri­day night.

Po­lice sus­pect that rob­bery was the mo­tive for the mur­der of a 35-year-old San Juan taxi dri­ver, whose body was dis­cov­ered ear­ly on Fri­day morn­ing.

A prob­lem­at­ic pro­cure­ment sys­tem and a “woe­ful­ly in­ad­e­quate” staffing es­tab­lish­ment have left pub­lic health fa­cil­i­ties in a state of pre­car­i­ous dys­func­tion, ac­cord­ing to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Na­tion­al Nurs­es As­so­ci­a­tion (TTNNA). While the pub­lic has long com­plained of a de­te­ri­o­rat­ing pa­tient ex­pe­ri­ence, the front­line work­ers tasked with main­tain­ing the sys­tem now ad­mit they are ter­ri­fied of the very wards they man­age.

Faced with what they call a “ter­ri­fy­ing” si­lence from the Gov­ern­ment and a pub­lic health sys­tem on the verge of col­lapse, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Na­tion­al Nurs­es As­so­ci­a­tion (TTNNA) has di­rect­ed its mem­ber­ship to down tools the mo­ment their eight-hour shifts end un­less they are paid full over­time. The in­dus­tri­al di­rec­tive fol­lows ex­plo­sive al­le­ga­tions of a “rack­et” lev­elled against nurs­ing staff by North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA) Chair­man Dr Tim Gopeesingh.

Af­ter com­plaints about the late ad­di­tion of flights for East­er, the THA Di­vi­sion of Tourism and Caribbean Air­lines met on April 1 to dis­cuss air­lift for peak pe­ri­ods, with par­tic­u­lar em­pha­sis on the To­ba­go Car­ni­val, sched­uled for Oc­to­ber 30 to No­vem­ber 1.

A call is be­ing made for a com­plete and thor­ough foren­sic au­dit of the Na­tion­al Quar­ries Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed af­ter the most re­cent au­dit­ed fi­nan­cial state­ments of the state-owned ag­gre­gate com­pa­ny re­vealed loss­es of more than $23 mil­lion in fis­cal 2021 and 2020.

Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo has ex­tend­ed East­er greet­ings to cit­i­zens of Trinidad and To­ba­go, urg­ing re­flec­tion on the mes­sage of the sea­son and its rel­e­vance to na­tion­al life.