A re­newed search for miss­ing Williamsville busi­ness­man Kelvin Sama­roo has so far yield­ed no break­through, with rel­a­tives con­firm­ing that he re­mained un­ac­count­ed for up to yes­ter­day as po­lice and vol­un­teer teams con­tin­ued in­ves­ti­ga­tions across south­ern Trinidad.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice So­cial and Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion (TTPSS­WA) has raised con­cerns about grow­ing of­fi­cer burnout, staff short­ages and pro­longed de­lays in pro­mo­tions, warn­ing that the is­sues are af­fect­ing morale with­in the po­lice ser­vice.

Less than two weeks be­fore Cari­com lead­ers con­vene in St Lu­cia, a le­gal opin­ion by UWI law pro­fes­sor Ra­jen­dra Ram­lo­gan has con­clud­ed that there is a sub­stan­tial le­gal ba­sis for chal­leng­ing the va­lid­i­ty of Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al Dr Car­la Bar­nett’s reap­point­ment.

The Em­ploy­ers’ Con­sul­ta­tive As­so­ci­a­tion (ECA) is call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to con­sid­er struc­tured train­ing pro­grammes to help stu­dents tran­si­tion from school to the work­place as part of ef­forts to tack­le youth un­em­ploy­ment and un­der­em­ploy­ment in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Tech­ni­cal of­fi­cers from the Min­istry of Works and In­fra­struc­ture are in­creas­ing­ly re­luc­tant to at­tend Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment co­or­di­nat­ing meet­ings across Trinidad be­cause of what se­nior of­fi­cials de­scribe as a pat­tern of dis­re­spect­ful and de­grad­ing treat­ment by elect­ed rep­re­sen­ta­tives at re­gion­al cor­po­ra­tions.

Ro­man Catholic Vic­ar Gen­er­al Fr Mar­tin Sir­ju says he has seen first­hand the ef­fects of eco­nom­ic hard­ship in and around Port-of-Spain, not­ing an in­crease in the num­ber of peo­ple seek­ing the church’s help to ob­tain ba­sic ne­ces­si­ties in re­cent times.

The Palmiste Gov­ern­ment School is steadi­ly re­build­ing and mov­ing for­ward af­ter the dev­as­tat­ing fire that de­stroyed the in­sti­tu­tion in De­cem­ber 2023.

The T&T Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) has threat­ened to sue Port-of-Spain South MP Kei­th Scot­land, SC, and a mem­ber of his law cham­bers over the rep­re­sen­ta­tion they pro­vid­ed in its bid to re­cov­er ap­prox­i­mate­ly $2.4 mil­lion in un­paid elec­tric­i­ty charges from now-de­funct ice cream man­u­fac­tur­er Fla­vorite Foods Lim­it­ed.

The Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TATT) and the Unit­ed States Fed­er­al Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Com­mis­sion (FCC) have signed a mem­o­ran­dum of un­der­stand­ing (MoU) aimed at strength­en­ing co­op­er­a­tion on telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions pol­i­cy and reg­u­la­tion.

Much of west­ern Eu­rope baked un­der a “heat dome” Wednes­day as tem­per­a­tures soared to­ward 40 de­grees Cel­sius (104 Fahren­heit) in places, and weath­er agen­cies warned that the ex­treme con­di­tions could en­dan­ger lives across coun­tries, many of which have lim­it­ed air con­di­tion­ing.

A man iden­ti­fied as Jo­hann Har­ry, al­so known as 'Je­sus', from Cas­sel­ton Av­enue, Trinci­ty, has been de­tained un­der a Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der for al­leged­ly dis­sem­i­nat­ing hate speech against Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, In­do-Trinida­di­ans and Hin­dus, among oth­ers, on so­cial me­dia.

A West­moor­ings busi­ness­man and his wife have been de­tained by the po­lice as part of an on­go­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tion.