Crime and the short­age of Forex for SMEs were the ma­jor fac­tors af­fect­ing busi­ness­es in 2024 ac­cord­ing to De­o­raj Ma­hase, the Pres­i­dent of the Cou­va Point Lisas Cham­ber of Com­merce (CPLCC). 

The much-an­tic­i­pat­ed mo­tion of no con­fi­dence Mo­tion of against Siparia May­or Dood­nath Mayrhoo will not be heard this month, as UNC Mon De­sir coun­cil­lor Deryck Bowrin failed to pro­vide the re­quired sev­en days’ no­tice. 

The Land Set­tle­ment Agency (LSA) has promised to in­ves­ti­gate the plight of mar­ket ven­dor Kr­ish­na Jagges­sar, whose home on Ram­lal Street, Pe­nal, is break­ing apart be­cause of land­slips. Re­spond­ing to Guardian Me­dia, a se­nior LSA of­fi­cial said: “The LSA is deeply sad­dened to learn of Mr Jagges­sar’s sit­u­a­tion and ac­knowl­edges the con­cerns raised.

In 2006, Pauline Bharat’s world shat­tered when her six-year-old son, Sean Luke, was vi­o­lent­ly mur­dered a stone’s throw from his Hen­ry Street home. The mur­der which at­tract­ed re­gion­al and lo­cal at­ten­tion was record­ed as one of the coun­try’s most bru­tal and bar­bar­ic.

Prof Rose-Marie Belle An­toine, prin­ci­pal of the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI), St Au­gus­tine, says talks are con­tin­u­ing to bring a speedy res­o­lu­tion to salary ne­go­ti­a­tions for staff at the in­sti­tu­tion.

Ken­neth Lewis, known in his prime as “King Go­ril­la” and “Hawk­eye,” died in a fire that de­stroyed his home in Pleas­antville yes­ter­day morn­ing.

A Cara­pichaima man was burnt be­yond recog­ni­tion af­ter his BMW flipped and burst in­to flames ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing.

In a dra­mat­ic re­ac­tion at the 29th Con­fer­ence of the Par­ties (COP29) tak­ing place in Baku, Azer­bai­jan, the Al­liance of Small Is­land States (AO­SIS) led by chair Cedric Schus­ter walked out on ne­go­ti­a­tions. How­ev­er, AO­SIS said in a state­ment yes­ter­day they re­main com­mit­ted to the glob­al mul­ti­lat­er­al process at COP.

Sat­ur­day af­ter­noon thun­der­show­ers re­sult­ed in flood­ing in sev­er­al parts of west and north Trinidad.

If the salary in­creas­es pro­posed by the Salaries Re­view Com­mis­sion’s (SRC) 120th re­port are im­ple­ment­ed, the state will pay more than $150 mil­lion in back pay. Guardian Me­dia cal­cu­lat­ed the back­pay to be paid for 118 of the of­fices re­viewed - if the SRC’s pro­pos­al was im­ple­ment­ed. 

With­in a week, four crim­i­nal mat­ters were dis­missed or dis­charged ow­ing to a lack of pre­pared­ness on the part of po­lice of­fi­cers.

Fif­teen in­di­vid­u­als were ar­rest­ed dur­ing a war­rant ex­er­cise con­duct­ed in the South­ern Di­vi­sion yes­ter­day.