A PH taxi dri­ver from cen­tral Trinidad has lost his ap­peal chal­leng­ing his con­vic­tion for aid­ing and abet­ting a group of men, who kid­napped, robbed and raped a woman over two decades ago.

A 63-year-old San Fer­nan­do woman is plead­ing for ur­gent help af­ter what she claimed has been four years of ter­ror at her home on La­dy Hailes Av­enue.

A 25-year-old woman claimed she was kid­napped, beat­en and sex­u­al­ly as­sault­ed by her chil­dren’s fa­ther dur­ing a ter­ri­fy­ing or­deal on Sun­day night.

An Arou­ca man was robbed of over $80,000 in cash whilst sit­ting in his car at the Su­per­Pharm car park in Trinci­ty on Fri­day night.

A po­lice ex­er­cise in the Curepe area on Sun­day night in­to the ear­ly hours yes­ter­day, led to 28 il­le­gal Venezue­lans be­ing de­tained and a quan­ti­ty of am­mu­ni­tion be­ing re­cov­ered.

A taxi-dri­ver who suf­fered a seizure as he was dri­ving along Scott Bushe Street in Wood­brook yes­ter­day, had to be hos­pi­talised af­ter he col­lid­ed with five cars and in­jured the front seat pas­sen­ger.

Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe has called on the pub­lic to go be­yond rou­tine greet­ings and ask, “How are things at home?” as part of ef­forts to de­tect un­re­solved con­flict and do­mes­tic vi­o­lence.

Pres­i­dent of the Pri­vate Phar­ma­cy Re­tail Busi­ness As­so­ci­a­tion (PPR­BA) Glen­wayne Su­chit says some cit­i­zens can­not af­ford med­ica­tion from pri­vate phar­ma­cies be­cause of a mo­nop­oly that ex­pand­ed af­ter the COVID-19 pe­ri­od, which has led to un­fair pric­ing, re­strict­ed sup­ply and the col­lapse of dozens of small phar­ma­cies.

Ja­maica will re­ceive up to US$6.7 bil­lion over three years from five in­ter­na­tion­al fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tions to sup­port re­cov­ery and re­con­struc­tion af­ter Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa. The pack­age was con­firmed af­ter a re­quest from Prime Min­is­ter An­drew Hol­ness and will in­volve CAF – De­vel­op­ment Bank of Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean, the Caribbean De­vel­op­ment Bank, the In­ter-Amer­i­can De­vel­op­ment Bank Group, the In­ter­na­tion­al Mon­e­tary Fund, and the World Bank Group.

The Min­istry of Health will ex­pand com­mu­ni­ty-based HIV test­ing and in­crease ac­cess to self-test­ing next year as it push­es to strength­en re­ten­tion in care and roll out a na­tion­al an­ti-stig­ma cam­paign.

Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe urged the pub­lic to ask deep­er ques­tions when check­ing in on oth­ers, say­ing a sim­ple “How are you do­ing?” is of­ten not enough to re­veal dis­tress or do­mes­tic vi­o­lence. He en­cour­aged peo­ple to fol­low up with, “How are things at home?” to help un­cov­er con­flict that may oth­er­wise go un­seen.

WIGUT pres­i­dent Dr In­di­ra Ram­per­sad has as­sured staff that the long-await­ed back pay owed to UWI St Au­gus­tine em­ploy­ees is now in its fi­nal stages of ap­proval, telling mem­bers, “It had to come. It was a le­gal agree­ment.”