The Prison Of­fi­cers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (POA) has ap­pealed for emer­gency fund­ing so the two ves­sels that ser­vice Car­rera Is­land, Ch­aguara­mas, can un­der­go an im­me­di­ate over­haul af­ter an ex­plo­sion land­ed an of­fi­cer and in­mate in hos­pi­tal.

Min­is­ter of Works and Trans­port Ro­han Sinanan says Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar should pay at­ten­tion to the re­gion­al cor­po­ra­tions un­der the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress.

Pe­nal/Debe Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion (PDRC) chair­man Gow­tam Ma­haraj has strong­ly con­demned Min­is­ter of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Faris Al-Rawi’s re­cent re­marks, call­ing them “in­sen­si­tive” to res­i­dents grap­pling with the dev­as­tat­ing floods that rav­aged the re­gion this week.

Stu­dents of the Cou­va East Sec­ondary School were tri­umphant when they com­pet­ed against 34 oth­er schools from across the coun­try in the 3rd Sec­ondary Schools’ Busi­ness Sim­u­la­tion Com­pe­ti­tion. 

Labour Min­is­ter Stephen Mc Clashie has bro­ken his si­lence, call­ing for good sense to pre­vail sur­round­ing the on­go­ing im­passe over wage ne­go­ti­a­tions at the Port of Port-of-Spain.

The process isn’t per­fect, but it’s the best one we have at the mo­ment. That was the feel­ing from small is­land stake­hold­ers in re­sponse to a let­ter that Con­fer­ence of Par­ties (COP) sum­mits are ‘no longer fit for pur­pose’.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Miss Uni­verse del­e­gate, Jenelle Thongs, has hit back at crit­ics who wad­ed in­to her ap­pear­ance and wardrobe, by say­ing she will “al­ways be that girl.”

Hop­ing to send a strong mes­sage to Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert, postal work­ers con­verged out­side the Fi­nan­cial Com­plex in Port-of-Spain yes­ter­day.

While po­lice-in­volved shoot­ings dom­i­nate com­plaints in Trinidad, To­ba­go faces a very dif­fer­ent polic­ing chal­lenge. Over the past decade, the Po­lice Com­plaints Au­thor­i­ty (PCA) has logged 553 ini­tial re­ports and 351 for­mal com­plaints of To­ba­go po­lice of­fi­cers show­ing dis­cred­itable or rude be­hav­iour.

Even though the li­cences grant­ed for the No­vem­ber Freeze con­cert sched­uled for to­day at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my, Tarou­ba, were re­voked yes­ter­day, pro­mot­er Kyle Yarde says the po­lice had not won.

Fol­low­ing a se­ries of fires in Tor­tu­ga that were de­lib­er­ate­ly set, res­i­dents are liv­ing un­der a cloud of fear as they won­der who will be the next tar­get.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert brought a swift end to the con­tin­u­ous ex­ten­sions of waivers and penal­ties for com­pa­nies fail­ing to file an­nu­al re­turns and oth­er doc­u­ments.