Even as Venezuela’s de­tained pres­i­dent, Nicolás Maduro, ap­peared be­fore a US fed­er­al court to face charges in­clud­ing nar­co-ter­ror­ism and con­spir­a­cy to im­port co­caine, Joel Ce­de­no was un­con­vinced that his coun­try had turned a cor­ner af­ter more than two decades un­der the Unit­ed So­cial­ist Par­ty of Venezuela (PSUV).

For­mer To­ba­go West MP Sham­fa Cud­joe-Lewis is ques­tion­ing why Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has not told Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar ex­act­ly how he feels about the US mil­i­tary radar in­stalled at the ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port — and ex­act­ly where To­bag­o­ni­ans be­lieve she should put it.

To­ba­go Ho­tel and Tourism As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent Regi­nald MacLean says flight can­cel­la­tions have not stopped fol­low­ing re­cent re­gion­al air­space dis­rup­tions, but there is no pan­ic among vis­i­tors cur­rent­ly on the is­land.

There was con­fu­sion and frus­tra­tion at Li­cens­ing of­fices across Trinidad yes­ter­day, as mo­torists com­plained of be­ing blind­sided by the Gov­ern­ment’s hefty late fee in­creas­es when re­new­ing their dri­ver’s per­mits.

Em­ploy­ees at Nu­trien’s Trinidad and To­ba­go op­er­a­tions re­ceived a tem­po­rary re­prieve yes­ter­day, af­ter the com­pa­ny con­firmed that no ter­mi­na­tion let­ters would be is­sued and in­struct­ed staff to re­port to work as usu­al.

As the fam­i­ly of slain fire of­fi­cer Bruce Leza­ma con­tin­ue to cope with his death, calls are be­ing made for par­ents to take a more proac­tive role in the up­bring­ing of their chil­dren as part of crime-fight­ing ef­forts.

To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty can­di­date Trevor James says for­mer THA chief sec­re­tary An­cil Den­nis and for­mer in­fra­struc­ture sec­re­tary Kwe­si Des Vi­gnes could end up in jail, over what he de­scribed as mas­sive cor­rup­tion in road con­tracts across To­ba­go.

Of the 150 schools set to re­ceive gov­ern­ment-is­sued lap­tops for Form One stu­dents, 60 per cent re­main with­out them as the new school term start­ed yes­ter­day.

Ten­sions flared over the week­end in Bethes­da as a ver­bal brawl broke out be­tween PNM and TPP sup­port­ers, with TPP can­di­date for Bethes­da/Les Coteaux Zor­isha Hack­ett caught in the mid­dle.

Dur­ing the first half of every year, all eyes usu­al­ly turn to the reser­voir lev­els to de­ter­mine what im­pact the dry sea­son is hav­ing on our wa­ter re­sources.

The State has been or­dered to pay over $300,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to a pri­vate ve­hi­cle in­spec­tor from Ch­agua­nas for a de­ci­sion by a for­mer trans­port com­mis­sion­er to stop him from op­er­at­ing. 

The Chil­dren’s Au­thor­i­ty is deny­ing that the Cyril Ross Chil­dren’s Home along El Do­ra­do Road, Tu­na­puna, closed due to li­cens­ing de­lays.