Em­ploy­ees at­tached to the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion are re­fus­ing to work, cit­ing what they de­scribed as an on­go­ing “mould in­fes­ta­tion” through­out the Tow­er B build­ing, which they say has per­sist­ed for the past three years.

A 65-year-old man is in sta­ble con­di­tion af­ter an ear­ly morn­ing at­tack at his To­co home on Sun­day.

Of­fi­cers of the Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment (CID) from three dif­fer­ent po­lice di­vi­sions are in­ves­ti­gat­ing three sep­a­rate cas­es of rob­bery which hap­pened over the week­end.

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

Trans­port Com­mis­sion­er Clive Clark has de­nied claims that mo­torists who re­new their dri­ver’s per­mits late are be­ing barred from ac­cess­ing the 10-year li­cence op­tion, fol­low­ing pub­lic com­plaints of sharply in­creased costs and con­fu­sion at some li­cens­ing of­fices.

For­mer To­ba­go West MP Sham­fa Cud­joe-Lewis is ques­tion­ing why Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has not told the Prime Min­is­ter ex­act­ly how he feels about the US mil­i­tary radar in To­ba­go air­port and ex­act­ly where To­bag­o­ni­ans think she should put it.

“I come with sor­row for the suf­fer­ing in­flict­ed up­on the Venezue­lan peo­ple fol­low­ing an il­le­git­i­mate mil­i­tary ag­gres­sion against our home­land,” she said with her right hand up. “I come with sor­row for the kid­nap­ping of two he­roes.”

De­posed Venezue­lan leader Nicolás Maduro de­clared him­self “in­no­cent” and a “de­cent man” as he plead­ed not guilty to fed­er­al drug traf­fick­ing charges in a U.S. court­room on Mon­day.

With ACP Os­wain Subero al­ready on pre-re­tire­ment leave and ACP Earl Elie now con­firm­ing he too is on his way out, Elie is as­sur­ing To­bag­o­ni­ans that the is­land’s hard-won drop in mur­ders will be main­tained even with the lead­er­ship changes.

A 65-year-old man is in sta­ble con­di­tion af­ter an ear­ly morn­ing at­tack at his To­co home on Sun­day.

Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al of the Unit­ed Na­tions, An­to­nio Guter­res, is warn­ing of the po­ten­tial for in­creased in­sta­bil­i­ty in Venezuela, fol­low­ing the Unit­ed States ac­tions on Sat­ur­day, which saw the coun­try’s pres­i­dent Nico­las Maduro be­ing cap­tured and tak­en to the U.S. to face drug traf­fick­ing and oth­er charges in an Amer­i­can court.

De­posed Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro is set to make his first ap­pear­ance Mon­day in an Amer­i­can court­room on the nar­co-ter­ror­ism charges the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion used to jus­ti­fy cap­tur­ing him and bring­ing him to New York.