Labour Min­is­ter Leroy Bap­tiste has clar­i­fied that the $2.8 bil­lion be­ing sought by the Gov­ern­ment in the mid-year bud­get re­view is in­tend­ed to fund salary in­creas­es for pub­lic sec­tor work­ers whose unions have al­ready con­clud­ed wage ne­go­ti­a­tions, and not for new salary set­tle­ments.

Econ­o­mist Dr Roger Ho­sein is urg­ing cit­i­zens to tem­per their ex­pec­ta­tions as the Gov­ern­ment pre­pares to seek an ad­di­tion­al $2.8 bil­lion in the up­com­ing mid-year bud­get re­view to ad­dress wage ne­go­ti­a­tions and out­stand­ing salary pay­ments.

More than 40 ven­dors op­er­at­ing at the Cross Cross­ing Vend­ing Zone in San Fer­nan­do have sought le­gal ad­vice, af­ter re­ceiv­ing no­tice that they would be barred from sell­ing for two weeks to fa­cil­i­tate main­te­nance works in the area.

Co­conut oil pro­duc­ers and ven­dors in the south-west­ern com­mu­ni­ty of Ica­cos are ex­press­ing con­cern over Gov­ern­ment’s pro­pos­al to dou­ble the penal­ty for man­u­fac­tur­ing co­pra prod­ucts with­out a li­cence, warn­ing the move could neg­a­tive­ly im­pact small op­er­a­tors who de­pend on the in­dus­try for their liveli­hoods.

The lo­cal and in­ter­na­tion­al mu­sic com­mu­ni­ty is mourn­ing the loss of leg­endary pan­nist, arranger, com­pos­er and pro­duc­er Robert “Rob­bie” Greenidge, 76, who died yes­ter­day.

When trade unions marched out­side min­is­ters’ homes un­der the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) ad­min­is­tra­tion, it was framed as law­ful in­dus­tri­al ac­tion.

De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge has threat­ened to sue Arou­ca/Lopinot MP Mar­vin Gon­za­les for defama­tion. 

A woman has won a law­suit against her step-broth­er over their fa­ther’s de­ci­sion to leave his prop­er­ty to her af­ter his death.

Is­rael’s lat­est strikes on Lebanon and Iran have made clear that U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump and Is­raeli Prime Min­is­ter Ben­jamin Ne­tanyahu, who start­ed the war in lock­step, want dif­fer­ent things.

Two men were ar­rest­ed on Sun­day night af­ter po­lice of­fi­cers in­ter­cept­ed a ve­hi­cle in Quar­ry Vil­lage, Siparia, and al­leged­ly dis­cov­ered a firearm and am­mu­ni­tion dur­ing a tar­get­ed op­er­a­tion.

A 6.1 mag­ni­tude earth­quake struck near west­ern Cu­ba on Mon­day, shak­ing build­ings in Ha­vana and be­yond.

The State De­part­ment will of­fer a “pre­mi­um” ex­pe­dit­ed ser­vice for for­eign­ers seek­ing busi­ness or tourist visas to come to the Unit­ed States that will set ap­pli­cants back $750 — on top of the ini­tial fee of $185.