Re­cent da­ta pub­lished by the Small Arms Sur­vey sug­gests that while there has been a rel­a­tive­ly small in­crease in the num­ber of au­to­mat­ic weapons be­ing seized, hand­guns (pis­tols and re­volvers) are the most com­mon cat­e­go­ry of firearm re­cov­ered by au­thor­i­ties.

A Venezue­lan na­tion­al is be­lieved to have been elec­tro­cut­ed while on a job­site in Mara­bel­la on Wednes­day.

For­mer Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) pres­i­dent Wat­son Duke will have to wait well over a year to learn the fate of his law­suit over the re­fusal of the union to pay him a pen­sion.

The Teach­ing Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (TSC) has been barred from fill­ing the va­can­cy for a prin­ci­pal at a sec­ondary school in St James, while a se­nior teacher, who has been act­ing in the po­si­tion for five years, pur­sues a law­suit over be­ing blocked from the re­cruit­ment process.

Gov­ern­ment Sen­ate leader Dar­rell Al­la­har has knocked down Sen­ate dis­cus­sion that the Home In­va­sion Bill will on­ly ap­ply if one has a firearm, since he says he will take up a cut­lass to de­fend his fam­i­ly if un­der threat.

A ma­jor air­line has de­clined to launch di­rect flights to To­ba­go and the US Nu­cor steel man­u­fac­tur­ing gi­ant has al­so re­ject­ed the Gov­ern­ment’s of­fer to ex­pand lo­cal in­vest­ment due to crime, says Trade Min­is­ter Satyaka­ma Ma­haraj.

A sec­ond Vat­i­can study com­mis­sion has de­ter­mined that women should not be or­dained as dea­cons, deal­ing an­oth­er set­back to Catholic women who hope one day to be able to pre­side at wed­dings, bap­tisms and fu­ner­als.

A 19-year-old Venezue­lan na­tion­al was elec­tro­cut­ed while work­ing on a job­site in Mara­bel­la yes­ter­day.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice says in­ter­mit­tent rain­fall, with a low chance of iso­lat­ed thun­der­storms, will con­tin­ue to af­fect Trinidad and, to a less­er ex­tent, To­ba­go as an Ad­verse Weath­er Alert at the yel­low lev­el re­mains in ef­fect.

A fresh dis­pute has erupt­ed be­tween the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) and Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer (CPO) Dr Daryl Din­di­al—de­spite both sides sign­ing off on a ten per cent wage in­crease for pub­lic ser­vants on Tues­day.

While the Op­po­si­tion Leader is de­mand­ing that the Prime Min­is­ter dis­close who con­trols da­ta from the new­ly in­stalled mil­i­tary radar in To­ba­go, Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has fired back, ac­cus­ing Pen­ne­lope Beck­les of at­tempt­ing to ex­pose sen­si­tive na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty in­for­ma­tion to aid crim­i­nals linked to the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM).

As the Gov­ern­ment pre­pares to pay a ten per cent wage in­crease and rough­ly $3.8 bil­lion in back­pay to pub­lic ser­vants, econ­o­mists say the fi­nan­cial and macro­eco­nom­ic ef­fects must not be un­der­es­ti­mat­ed.