For­mer Cen­tral Bank gov­er­nor Dr Alvin Hi­laire will have to wait just over six months for the tri­al of his mul­ti­mil­lion-dol­lar law­suit over his ter­mi­na­tion.

A Unit­ed States-trained nurse has lost her law­suit chal­leng­ing the re­fusal of the Nurs­ing Coun­cil of Trinidad and To­ba­go to reg­is­ter her lo­cal­ly.

The fu­ner­al ser­vice for sev­en-year-old An­gel­i­ca Saydee Jo­gie will be held on Sat­ur­day in Bar­rack­pore, af­ter her body re­turns home for the fi­nal time fol­low­ing a trag­ic jet ski in­ci­dent in To­ba­go.

“I don’t know why they did that to my son,” sobbed Leela Mo­hammed, moth­er of 33-year-old pump­kin farmer Ka­mal Mo­hammed, who was gunned down while work­ing in a gar­den on Tues­day.

Trinidad and To­ba­go is not fac­ing an im­me­di­ate drought, but dri­er con­di­tions could emerge lat­er this year, ac­cord­ing to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS).

A Spe­cial Re­serve Po­lice (SRP) con­sta­ble at­tached to the of­fice of the Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent of the Port-of-Spain Di­vi­sion was rushed to hos­pi­tal yes­ter­day, af­ter ac­ci­den­tal­ly shoot­ing him­self in the leg.

A young busi­ness­man is step­ping in­to the child wel­fare space with a $100,000 in­ter­ven­tion, high­light­ing grow­ing calls for pri­vate-sec­tor ac­tion as Trinidad and To­ba­go con­tin­ues to grap­ple with per­sis­tent gaps in its child pro­tec­tion sys­tem.

Flow has sup­port­ed the Autis­tic So­ci­ety of Trinidad and To­ba­go with a do­na­tion of es­sen­tial sup­plies as part of ac­tiv­i­ties mark­ing Autism Aware­ness Month.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has in­ten­si­fied her crit­i­cism of the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com), ac­cus­ing the re­gion­al body of con­ceal­ing what she de­scribed as a cor­rupt back­room op­er­a­tion that un­der­mines the or­gan­i­sa­tion and harms Caribbean cit­i­zens.

The North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA) has re­ject­ed claims cir­cu­lat­ing on­line that staff lock­ers were forcibly bro­ken in­to or that per­son­al items were dis­card­ed at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex (EWM­SC).

As­sis­tant Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al (Ag.) of Cari­com, Dr Wen­dell Samuel, has called for ac­tion to ad­dress the im­pact of the Mid­dle East con­flict on the Caribbean.

As­sis­tant Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al (Ag.) of Cari­com, Dr Wen­dell Samuel, has called for ac­tion to ad­dress the im­pact of the Mid­dle East con­flict on the Caribbean.