A po­lice of­fi­cer was charged with in­de­cent as­sault af­ter al­leged­ly kiss­ing an­oth­er of­fi­cer on her lips with­out her con­sent.

Pres­i­dent of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA), Crys­tal Ashe, says while trade unions will al­ways seek the best pos­si­ble set­tle­ment for work­ers, a “rea­son­able so­lu­tion” must be reached in the on­go­ing im­passe be­tween the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) and the Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer (CPO) over out­stand­ing pub­lic sec­tor ar­rears.

A prison of­fi­cer has won a law­suit over the pro­ce­dure used by the Pub­lic Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PSC) to dis­ci­pline him for al­leged­ly sub­mit­ting a fake de­gree cer­tifi­cate when seek­ing pro­mo­tion. 

The Teach­ing Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (TSC) has lost a case over its re­fusal to dis­close an unredact­ed in­ves­tiga­tive re­port to a teacher who was dis­ci­plined based on it. 

For­mer Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Mar­vin Gon­za­les is con­demn­ing the hir­ing of “in­flu­encers” at the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA), claim­ing the em­ploy­ees were re­cruit­ed by the Gov­ern­ment with­out qual­i­fi­ca­tions or a trans­par­ent hir­ing process.

Op­po­si­tion Chief Whip Mar­vin Gon­za­les says the Op­po­si­tion is pre­pared to es­ca­late its con­cerns over the treat­ment of Op­po­si­tion Mem­bers of Par­lia­ment be­yond Par­lia­ment, tak­ing the mat­ter to re­gion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al bod­ies.

Princes Town farmer Sha­heed Ali is once again draw­ing at­ten­tion for his gi­ant back­yard pro­duce af­ter suc­cess­ful­ly grow­ing a mas­sive 600-pound pump­kin, sur­pass­ing the 500-pound pump­kin that made head­lines in 2023.

For­mer house speak­er Nizam Mo­hammed has ex­pressed con­cern over the grow­ing pub­lic per­cep­tion that par­lia­men­tary pro­ce­dures are in­creas­ing­ly be­ing used as po­lit­i­cal weapons rather than tools for sub­stan­tive de­bate and ac­count­abil­i­ty.

Un­der­scor­ing the im­por­tance of arts and cul­ture, Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath said they play a vi­tal role in shap­ing young peo­ple in­to re­spon­si­ble and car­ing cit­i­zens.

Warn­ings over il­le­gal quar­ry op­er­a­tions and a crit­i­cal short­fall in ag­gre­gate sup­ply are in­ten­si­fy­ing ten­sions in the min­er­als sec­tor, as quar­ry op­er­a­tors ac­cuse Gov­ern­ment of main­tain­ing the “sta­tus quo” through its lat­est round of hold-over li­cences.

Iran on Tues­day de­nounced the most re­cent U.S. strikes as a sign of “bad faith and un­re­li­a­bil­i­ty” as ne­go­ti­a­tions pressed on to­ward a pos­si­ble deal to end the war, and the Is­lam­ic Re­pub­lic be­gan restor­ing in­ter­net ac­cess af­ter one of the longest na­tion­wide shut­downs ever.

The head of Puer­to Ri­co ’s key eco­nom­ic de­vel­op­ment agency an­nounced his res­ig­na­tion on Tues­day as he crit­i­cized the U.S. ter­ri­to­ry’s ad­min­is­tra­tion of Jen­nif­fer González, ac­cus­ing it of in­ter­fer­ing in the de­part­ment’s work.