San Fer­nan­do East MP Bri­an Man­ning says the con­stituen­cy is en­ter­ing a “new day” fol­low­ing a cor­dial meet­ing with Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les, and he is pre­dict­ing an “over­whelm­ing vic­to­ry” for his moth­er, for­mer ed­u­ca­tion min­is­ter Hazel Man­ning, in the up­com­ing con­stituen­cy ex­ec­u­tive elec­tion.

Work­ers af­fect­ed by the ter­mi­na­tion of To­ba­go’s ten-on, ten-off em­ploy­ment pro­gramme are warn­ing that the move could con­tribute to ris­ing crime on the is­land.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath has re­moved two di­rec­tors from the board of the Na­tion­al Main­te­nance Train­ing and Se­cu­ri­ty Com­pa­ny Ltd (MTS), say­ing they were not ful­fill­ing their man­date and lacked the lev­el of com­mit­ment need­ed to help ad­dress long­stand­ing prob­lems at the State com­pa­ny.

Op­po­si­tion MP and for­mer pub­lic util­i­ties min­is­ter Mar­vin Gon­za­les is call­ing for the re­moval of his suc­ces­sor, Bar­ry Padarath and the board and ex­ec­u­tive man­age­ment of the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA), ac­cus­ing the au­thor­i­ty of qui­et­ly in­creas­ing some plumb­ing in­spec­torate fees by as much as 700 per cent with­out in­form­ing the pub­lic.

The Op­po­si­tion is call­ing on Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo to de­mand an­swers from the Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PolSC) over its fail­ure to rec­om­mend an act­ing Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP) while Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro was out of the coun­try.

A for­mer sol­dier and na­tion­al foot­baller has been ac­quit­ted of kid­nap­ping, false­ly im­pris­on­ing and rap­ing his ex-girl­friend near­ly two decades ago.

A shoot­ing in Mor­vant on Wednes­day claimed the lives of two men in what po­lice have clas­si­fied as a gang-re­lat­ed in­ci­dent.

The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion says pay­ments un­der the 2026 School Sup­plies and Book Grant are ex­pect­ed to be­gin by Sep­tem­ber 2, just five days be­fore the new school term be­gins.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has ad­mon­ished the Di­vi­sion of Ed­u­ca­tion for its late start to the school re­pair pro­gramme.

Trinidad and To­ba­go is cur­rent­ly be­ing rep­re­sent­ed at Mis­sion Shak­thiSAT, a glob­al space ed­u­ca­tion ini­tia­tive em­pow­er­ing girls through sci­ence and tech­nol­o­gy, by Kait­lyn Sa­ha­too.

The Gov­ern­ment’s Re­vi­tal­i­sa­tion Blue­print re­mains in the pro­cure­ment stage, de­spite ini­tial plans for some projects to be­gin this month.

The Scar­bor­ough Mag­is­trates’ Court was evac­u­at­ed yes­ter­day morn­ing fol­low­ing a sec­ond bomb threat in just over a week.