To­ba­go hote­liers are an­tic­i­pat­ing a bumper East­er hol­i­day sea­son as vis­i­tors, par­tic­u­lar­ly Tri­nis, seem set to flock to the is­land with their fam­i­lies.

While T&T re­mains un­der a State of Emer­gency (SoE) aimed at curb­ing vi­o­lent crime, busi­ness op­er­a­tors along High Street in San Fer­nan­do say rob­beries and pick­pock­et­ing con­tin­ue much as be­fore.

Gov­ern­ment’s mo­tion to ex­tend the cur­rent State of Emer­gency (SoE) for three more months—un­til June—will be de­bat­ed in Par­lia­ment this af­ter­noon.

Res­i­dents of Hill­piece in Phillip­pine, San Fer­nan­do, say they are liv­ing in fear af­ter two pit bulls vi­cious­ly at­tacked an el­der­ly man last Fri­day evening, leav­ing him with se­vere in­juries and the loss of use of one of his hands.

For­mer Mi­nor­i­ty Leader Kelvon Mor­ris will face ex-To­ba­go West MP Sham­fa Cud­joe for the lead­er­ship of the PNM To­ba­go Coun­cil.

The fam­i­lies of two south Trinidad fish­er­men re­main anx­ious­ly await­ing news as re­gion­al search ef­forts con­tin­ue for the men who dis­ap­peared while de­liv­er­ing the fish­ing pirogue Kam­pai to St Vin­cent and the Grenadines ear­li­er this month.

Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath says stu­dents who are ex­pelled from schools are not sim­ply aban­doned but are in­stead placed in al­ter­na­tive pro­grammes de­signed to ad­dress be­hav­iour­al is­sues while al­low­ing them to con­tin­ue their ed­u­ca­tion.

Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) Roger Gas­pard, SC, has been giv­en just over a month to de­cide whether to con­tin­ue the pros­e­cu­tion of two po­lice of­fi­cers ac­cused of rob­bing a Chi­nese cou­ple more than a decade ago.

The Ac­cred­i­ta­tion Coun­cil of Trinidad and To­ba­go (ACTT) has been or­dered to pay sig­nif­i­cant com­pen­sa­tion to the own­ers of a pri­vate ac­coun­tan­cy school that was forced to close due to what the High Court found were oner­ous and dis­crim­i­na­to­ry ac­cred­i­ta­tion re­quire­ments.

Steel­work­ers gath­ered out­side the closed Arcelor­Mit­tal Point Lisas fa­cil­i­ty on Wednes­day night, hold­ing a can­dle­light vig­il to mark ten years since the shut­down of the steel plant that once stood as a cor­ner­stone of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s heavy in­dus­tri­al sec­tor. The union al­so re­newed calls for jus­tice for the hun­dreds of work­ers dis­placed when the plant closed.

WEST BLOOM­FIELD, Mich. (AP) — A man armed with a ri­fle rammed his ve­hi­cle in­to one of the na­tion’s largest re­form syn­a­gogues in a De­troit sub­urb and was fa­tal­ly shot by se­cu­ri­ty Thurs­day, The As­so­ci­at­ed Press has learned.

The Caribbean Pub­lic Health Agency (CARPHA) is urg­ing ear­ly test­ing and lifestyle changes as the re­gion ob­serves World Kid­ney Day to­day. The theme this year is Kid­ney Health for All – Car­ing for Peo­ple, Pro­tect­ing the Plan­et.