A de­ci­sion to trans­fer six men on re­mand to a di­lap­i­dat­ed and over­crowd­ed build­ing at the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison in Arou­ca is set to cost the State more than $1.8 mil­lion.

Claims of di­vi­sion, dis­con­nect and dis­cord have rocked the PNM To­ba­go Coun­cil, with two ex­ec­u­tive mem­bers re­sign­ing on the same day.

A Sun­day morn­ing dri­ve end­ed in tragedy when Joel Far­fan, 32, died and two oth­ers were in­jured af­ter the car they were trav­el­ling in plunged in­to the Cunu­pia Riv­er short­ly af­ter 6 am.

The Prime Min­is­ter’s de­ci­sion to re­as­sign re­spon­si­bil­i­ties among min­is­ters has drawn mixed re­ac­tions. Some view it as a rou­tine ad­min­is­tra­tive ad­just­ment, while oth­ers see it as a sig­nal of the Gov­ern­ment’s po­lit­i­cal and pol­i­cy pri­or­i­ties.

The High Court has ruled that the Chief of De­fence Staff act­ed un­law­ful­ly by de­clin­ing to re­ceive a rec­om­men­da­tion for the pro­mo­tion of for­mer Trinidad and To­ba­go Reg­i­ment Staff Sergeant Sher­win Rus­sell to War­rant Of­fi­cer Class II.

Sta­cy Ha­jarie had moved in­to her un­cle’s home in Bonasse Vil­lage, Ce­dros, just two weeks ear­li­er. On Sat­ur­day, she watched help­less­ly as flood­wa­ters cov­ered her fur­ni­ture and oth­er be­long­ings in the yard, which she had not yet had time to se­cure.

San Fer­nan­do East MP Bri­an Man­ning has main­tained that he was not in­volved in le­gal ac­tion brought by a con­stituent seek­ing per­mis­sion to par­tic­i­pate in the con­stituen­cy’s Women’s League ex­ec­u­tive elec­tions on Sat­ur­day.

So­cial ser­vice or­gan­i­sa­tions are call­ing for in­creased fund­ing in the Oc­to­ber 12 na­tion­al bud­get, warn­ing that in­ad­e­quate sup­port is leav­ing chil­dren’s homes strug­gling to meet ba­sic costs and lim­it­ing ser­vices for vul­ner­a­ble fam­i­lies.

Fam­i­ly, friends and ad­mir­ers of Ca­lyp­so King of the World Slinger Fran­cis­co, bet­ter known as the Mighty Spar­row, cel­e­brat­ed the man be­hind the leg­end at a memo­r­i­al ser­vice in New York yes­ter­day.

One man is dead and two oth­ers are crit­i­cal fol­low­ing a road traf­fic ac­ci­dent in Cunu­pia short­ly af­ter 6 a.m. to­day.

PNM To­ba­go Coun­cil po­lit­i­cal leader Sham­fa Cud­joe-Lewis is warn­ing that there is “no room for com­pla­cen­cy” or per­son­al agen­das with­in the par­ty, as she seeks to strength­en the or­gan­i­sa­tion fol­low­ing the res­ig­na­tion of coun­cil chair­man Nicole Hen­ry-Wal­dron.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says the sweep­ing changes in her Cab­i­net re­align­ment are meant to “in­crease ef­fi­cien­cy, cut costs and bu­reau­cra­cy.”