The San Fer­nan­do Teach­ing Hos­pi­tal has now joined a grow­ing list of pub­lic in­sti­tu­tions pro­vid­ing free Wi-Fi ac­cess.

The Com­mu­ni­ty-Ori­ent­ed Polic­ing Sec­tion (COPS), East­ern Di­vi­sion, host­ed its An­nu­al Clothes and Toys Dri­ve in front of the Sinanan Build­ing in San­gre Grande last week, gar­ner­ing strong pub­lic sup­port.

The brazen day­light shoot­ing cap­tured on video and cir­cu­lat­ed on so­cial me­dia in San­gre Chiq­ui­to on Fri­day has claimed the life of the son of trade union­ist Michael An­nisette.

Two gun­men at­tacked a Han­nukah cel­e­bra­tion on a Syd­ney beach Sun­day, killing at least 11 peo­ple in what Aus­tralian Prime Min­is­ter An­tho­ny Al­banese called an act of an­ti­semitism and ter­ror­ism.

Five peo­ple were ar­rest­ed and a quan­ti­ty of cannabis seized dur­ing Op­er­a­tion Fes­tive Shield ex­er­cis­es con­duct­ed in the South­ern and North­ern Di­vi­sions yes­ter­day.

The Coun­cil for Re­spon­si­ble Po­lit­i­cal Be­hav­iour has be­gun the process of mon­i­tor­ing the THA 2026 elec­tion cam­paign to as­sess whether po­lit­i­cal par­ties, can­di­dates and their sup­port­ers com­ply with the Code of Eth­i­cal Po­lit­i­cal Con­duct.

The Na­tion­al Union of Gov­ern­ment and Fed­er­at­ed Work­ers (NUFGW) is mov­ing swift­ly to se­cure a ten per cent pay in­crease for the dai­ly-paid work­ers it rep­re­sents, with union lead­ers seek­ing an ear­ly meet­ing with Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer (CPO) Lt Cm­dr Dr Daryl Din­di­al.

Be­tween June and De­cem­ber this year, more than a dozen State board of­fi­cials, chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cers and even the Cen­tral Bank Gov­er­nor have ei­ther been fired, forced in­to pre-re­tire­ment leave, re­signed, had their ap­point­ments re­voked or en­tered in­to mu­tu­al sep­a­ra­tion agree­ments since the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) Gov­ern­ment as­sumed of­fice in April.

Bud­get cuts leave hous­ing de­vel­op­ments strug­gling over­flow­ing bins, ro­dents, cock­roach­es, flies, and stray dogs

Gov­ern­ment-run cor­po­ra­tions have wel­comed the pro­posed Na­tion­al Pro­gramme for the Up­keep of Pub­lic Spaces, while op­po­si­tion-led re­gions warn the ini­tia­tive falls short of the scale and reach of the Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP).

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath has fired back at Port-of-Spain North/St Ann’s West MP Stu­art Young, fol­low­ing the MP’s sharp crit­i­cism of Christ­mas events held at the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter (OPM) and the Min­istry of Pub­lic Util­i­ties (MPU).

Po­lice are try­ing to de­ter­mine the iden­ti­ty of a man found float­ing in the Gulf of Paria in San Fer­nan­do this morn­ing. The dis­cov­ery was made around 11 a.m. by a passer­by near King’s Wharf, close to the old PTSC com­pound. The nude body was float­ing face down about 20 feet from shore.