Trinidad and To­ba­go Na­tion­al Nurs­es As­so­ci­a­tion (TTNNA) in­dus­tri­al re­la­tions of­fi­cer Leti­tia Stephens says the cur­rent sick­out ac­tion by nurs­es could be end­ed if man­age­ment at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex (EWM­SC) in Mt Hope meets with and speaks re­spect­ful­ly with nurs­es.

For­mer med­ical di­rec­tor and cur­rent di­rec­tor of the South-West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty, Dr Anand Cha­toor­goon, is urg­ing nurs­es to re­flect on com­pas­sion and du­ty amid an on­go­ing im­passe be­tween the Trinidad and To­ba­go Na­tion­al Nurs­es As­so­ci­a­tion (TTNNA) and the re­gion­al health au­thor­i­ties.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Trans­paren­cy In­sti­tute (TT­TI) is call­ing on Gov­ern­ment to im­me­di­ate­ly pri­ori­tise cam­paign fi­nance re­form leg­is­la­tion.

To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine says he is not in sup­port of a re­port­ed pro­pos­al by Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) to re­move the sub­sidy on the air­bridge.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has im­plored the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) to bet­ter safe­guard its in­fra­struc­ture.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and for­mer prime min­is­ters Dr Kei­th Row­ley and Stu­art Young yes­ter­day ex­tend­ed con­do­lences fol­low­ing the death of for­mer Suri­name pres­i­dent Chan­drikaper­sad San­tokhi, pay­ing trib­ute to his ser­vice and lead­er­ship.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says it was the Spir­i­tu­al Shouter Bap­tist faith that saved her fa­ther’s life and in­spired the guid­ing prin­ci­ple she has car­ried through­out her own jour­ney—“put God in front and walk be­hind.”

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro has apol­o­gised for the role of po­lice of­fi­cers in pre­vent­ing Spir­i­tu­al Bap­tists from prac­tis­ing their faith for over three decades.

To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has urged Bap­tists not to for­get their call­ing in so­ci­ety.

Ac­ci­dent sur­vivor Yousuf Ho­sein is once again mak­ing an ap­peal to Gov­ern­ment to in­stall pro­tec­tive bar­ri­ers, af­ter an­oth­er fa­tal cross-me­di­an crash over the week­end.

Cre­ative bon­nets, hats and out­fits were on dis­play as the Flam­boy­ant Move­ment held its first East­er Bon­net com­pe­ti­tion at the Har­ris Prom­e­nade in San Fer­nan­do on Sat­ur­day.

A bush fire has de­stroyed one of Pe­nal’s most cher­ished land­mark homes, wip­ing out near­ly a cen­tu­ry of his­to­ry tied to the Tilluck­d­har­ry fam­i­ly, whose lega­cy has shaped gen­er­a­tions with­in the Pe­nal com­mu­ni­ty.