An­tigua and Bar­bu­da Prime Min­is­ter Gas­ton Browne has un­der­scored the im­por­tance of the re­gion­al air­line, LI­AT 2020 to the Caribbean as the St. John’s based air­line made its in­au­gur­al flight in­to Guyana on Tues­day evening.

A ma­jor storm swept across the north­west U.S., bat­ter­ing the re­gion with strong winds and rain, caus­ing wide­spread pow­er out­ages and down­ing trees that killed at least one per­son.

In ob­ser­vance of In­ter­na­tion­al Men’s Day, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Ex-Ser­vice­men As­so­ci­a­tion yes­ter­day staged a march in San Fer­nan­do to cel­e­brate men’s con­tri­bu­tions.

Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer (CPO) Com­man­der Dr Daryl Din­di­al con­tin­ued ne­go­ti­a­tions with the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice So­cial and Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion (TTP­SWA) and the Trinidad and To­ba­go De­fence Force (TTDF) Pay Re­view Com­mit­tee yes­ter­day.

Be­fore an in­junc­tion was grant­ed by the In­dus­tri­al Court, the As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go Hauliers (ATTH) had sus­pend­ed their ser­vices at the Port of Port-of-Spain for yet an­oth­er day.

Port work­ers have been or­dered back to work fol­low­ing an In­dus­tri­al Court in­junc­tion. The move has been de­scribed as a vic­to­ry for the na­tion’s econ­o­my by the Port Au­thor­i­ty.

Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Kei­th Scot­land is call­ing on vic­tims of ex­tor­tion to come for­ward and make a re­port to the po­lice.

Even as busi­ness­es in the vicin­i­ty of the Fu­ture Lead­ers Child­care and Ed­u­ca­tion Cen­tre, Tu­na­puna Road, Tu­na­puna, con­duct­ed op­er­a­tions as nor­mal yes­ter­day, the doors to the nurs­ery re­mained tight­ly locked.

Op­po­si­tion MPs have fierce­ly crit­i­cised the dis­missal of cor­rup­tion charges against sev­en po­lice of­fi­cers, call­ing it a “trav­es­ty of jus­tice” and a glar­ing fail­ure of T&T’s jus­tice sys­tem.

Fol­low­ing the col­lapse of the case against sev­en po­lice of­fi­cers ac­cused of ex­tor­tion on Mon­day, Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (DCP) Suzette Mar­tin, who head­ed the Pro­fes­sion­al Stan­dards Bu­reau (PSB) dur­ing the in­ves­ti­ga­tion, con­firmed that the mat­ter re­mains un­der re­view. 

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley and a min­is­te­r­i­al del­e­ga­tion trav­elled to George­town, Guyana yes­ter­day to at­tend sev­er­al meet­ings with Cari­com heads of gov­ern­ment and Prime Min­is­ter of In­dia, Shri Naren­dra Mo­di.

For­mer man­ag­ing di­rec­tor of ANSA Bank and gov­ern­ment min­is­ter Robert Le Hunte is not in agree­ment with the Prime Min­is­ter’s as­ser­tion that the de­mand for the Gov­ern­ment to de­val­ue the TT dol­lar is on­ly com­ing from peo­ple try­ing to make a quick prof­it.