The Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) has ac­cept­ed the Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer’s (CPO) five per cent of­fer for the pe­ri­od 2020 to 2023, spread at one per cent, one per cent and three per cent. The Cost of Liv­ing Al­lowance (CO­LA) was al­so ad­just­ed to $51 from Oc­to­ber 31, 2023.

Unit­ed States Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Ru­bio has agreed to “work very close­ly” with the T&T Gov­ern­ment to find so­lu­tions to the Drag­on gas deal.

There was an in­creased po­lice pres­ence in and around the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port yes­ter­day, as of­fi­cers set up a se­cu­ri­ty net a day af­ter a Mar­aval man was gunned down mo­ments af­ter ar­riv­ing home from Pana­ma.

They're all con­tin­u­ing at it with ever-in­creas­ing po­lit­i­cal tem­po - every ap­pear­ance seek­ing spot­light, every state­ment lob­by­ing sup­port. Politi­cians are head­ing through the clos­ing cur­rents of the Gen­er­al Elec­tion cam­paign in­to the start of spe­cial vot­ing, which be­gins on Mon­day. Here's some of what oc­curred on the plat­form in case you missed it:

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has been asked to in­crease the Dis­abil­i­ty Grant from $2,000 to $3,500 and to al­lo­cate food cards to the dis­abled com­mu­ni­ty if her par­ty forms the next gov­ern­ment.

Ro­man Catholic Arch­bish­op Ja­son Gor­don says T&T has lost its way and the on­ly way for so­ci­ety to find its way back is through ser­vice.

South­ern Vic­ari­ate Epis­co­pal Vic­ar, Fa­ther David Khan, yes­ter­day called on parish­ioners to be­come bea­cons of hope, as he not­ed the coun­try’s lead­ers had dis­ap­point­ed cit­i­zens.

While many Chris­tians re­flect­ed on Je­sus’ cru­ci­fix­ion yes­ter­day, sev­er­al peo­ple ho­n­oured the an­nu­al Good Fri­day tra­di­tion of beat­ing bobolees, with Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) leader Dr Kei­th Row­ley, Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young, for­mer Ch­agua­nas East MP Di­nesh Ram­bal­ly and Unit­ed States Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump among those com­ing in for some “licks.”

The Unit­ed King­dom-based Privy Coun­cil is ex­pect­ed to have the fi­nal say in a defama­tion law­suit brought by for­mer Fi­nance Min­is­ter and cur­rent Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert against Pro­gres­sive Em­pow­er­ment Par­ty (PEP) po­lit­i­cal leader Phillip Ed­ward Alexan­der.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers' As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) has ac­cept­ed the Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer (CPO) five per cent of­fer for the pe­ri­od 2020 to 2023 with a spread of one per cent, one per cent, three per cent which rep­re­sent a clo­sure of the gap by 18.2% per cent fol­lowed by the con­sol­i­da­tion of the Cost of Liv­ing Al­lowance (CO­LA) and oth­er im­proved terms and con­di­tions for mem­bers of the Teach­ing Ser­vice.

They're all con­tin­u­ing at it with ever-in­creas­ing po­lit­i­cal tem­po - every ap­pear­ance seek­ing spot­light, every state­ment lob­by­ing sup­port. Politi­cians are head­ing through the clos­ing cur­rents of the Gen­er­al Elec­tion cam­paign in­to the start of spe­cial vot­ing, which be­gins on Mon­day. Here's some of what oc­curred on the plat­form in case you missed it:

A Mar­aval man is call­ing for jus­tice and an­swers, af­ter his son was gunned down mo­ments af­ter he re­turned home from abroad at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port yes­ter­day, in what po­lice be­lieve was an or­ches­trat­ed hit.