Joint Trade Union Move­ment (JTUM) gen­er­al sec­re­tary Ozzi War­wick is con­tin­u­ing their con­dem­na­tion of the Port Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go for us­ing mil­i­tary per­son­nel at the Port of Port-of-Spain while work­ers protest­ed.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing an in­ci­dent ear­li­er this month at the Trinidad and To­ba­go Red Cross So­ci­ety, where fly­ers call­ing for the re­moval of pres­i­dent Jill De Bourg were plas­tered around the Fitzblack­man Dri­ve, Port-of-Spain com­pound.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Man­u­fac­tur­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTMA) is tak­ing a trade mis­sion to St Vin­cent and the Grenadines. This mis­sion is led by TTMA CEO, Dr Ramesh Ramdeen.

The Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty Cli­mate Change Cen­tre (CC­C­CC) has un­veiled a new lo­go aimed at mark­ing the be­gin­ning of an ex­cit­ing new chap­ter in its jour­ney to strength­en the re­silience of the Caribbean in the face of cli­mate change.

bpTT pres­i­dent David Camp­bell says the seis­mic ac­qui­si­tion for the Man­akin-Cocuina field was com­plet­ed, and the da­ta col­lect­ed is now at the pro­cess­ing stage.

A so­cial ac­tivist has promised to pur­sue lit­i­ga­tion over the dis­clo­sure of al­leged com­mu­ni­ca­tions from Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley, Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Fitzger­ald Hinds and suc­ces­sive po­lice com­mis­sion­ers over the fast-track­ing of firearm user's li­cence (FUL) ap­pli­ca­tions. 

Nine res­i­dents of the Ja­cob Hill com­mu­ni­ty in Waller­field have re­ceived keys to new homes con­struct­ed by the Land Set­tle­ment Agency (LSA), fol­low­ing their re­lo­ca­tion from state lands des­ig­nat­ed for the con­struc­tion of a com­mu­ni­ty recre­ation fa­cil­i­ty.

A Chi­nese na­tion­al has failed in his fi­nal ap­peal on the dis­missal of his law­suit over the fail­ure of the Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty to pro­vide de­tailed rea­sons for or­der­ing his de­por­ta­tion.

In the last three weeks, pupils of Rox­ann’s Learn­ing and Child­care Cen­tre in Mor­vant, St Fran­cois Girls’ Col­lege in Bel­mont, and South East Sec­ondary School in Port-of-Spain were im­pact­ed by the crime in the com­mu­ni­ties where they are based.

Venezuela’s top pros­e­cu­tor on Mon­day an­nounced the ar­rest of a for­mer oil min­is­ter and ac­cused him of work­ing with the U.S. gov­ern­ment to un­der­mine the in­dus­try that dri­ves the coun­try’s econ­o­my.

Ja­maica is ob­serv­ing Na­tion­al He­roes Day on Mon­day with the lead­ers of the two main po­lit­i­cal par­ties at odds as to how the coun­try’s most dec­o­rat­ed cul­tur­al leg­ends Louise “Miss Lou” Ben­nett-Cov­er­ley and Robert Nes­ta “Bob” Mar­ley, should be ho­n­oured.

The Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) is re­mem­ber­ing Nile­ung Hy­po­lite, who passed away over the week­end fol­low­ing a bat­tle with can­cer.