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ON PATROL: Police officers question a motorist on the Beetham Highway yesterday during a traffic exercise that also coincided with World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims which is celebrated on November 15 globally. —Photo: JERMAINE CRUICKSHANK
ON PATROL: Police officers question a motorist on the Beetham Highway yesterday during a traffic exercise that also coincided with World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims which is celebrated on November 15 globally. —Photo: JERMAINE CRUICKSHANK

Trinidad: Vehicle tint under scrutiny

(Trinidad Express) Tinting and drivers who violate traffic lights will be under closer scrutiny when the Road Traffic and Motor Vehicle policy is reviewed again.

bpTT office
bpTT office

British Petroleum Trinidad lays off 40

(Trinidad Guardian) bpTT yesterday retrenched more than 40 workers in what is expected to an exercise in which close to 100 employees will be let go from the company this week.

Plans to revive Port of Spain announced by PM

(Trinidad Express) The Government of Trinidad and Tobago is set to em-bark on several key development projects as it pushes ahead with its  Revitali-sation of Port of Spain Project, which is being executed by Urban Deve-lopment Company of Trinidad and Tobago (UDeCOTT) in conjunction with the Ministry of Planning and Develop-ment.

Nyan Gadsby-Dolly

Trinidad cuts scholarship programme, tuition aid

(Trinidad Guardian) Less national scholarships will be handed out this year and less people will be able to access Government Assistance for Tuition Expenses (GATE) funding, after Minister of Education Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly announced major cuts to both programmes on Friday.Gadsby-Dolly

Justin Roopchan, left, speaks about how he and his wife Tiffany Sylvester and their two babies now live at a storage facility in San Juan, after the family was rendered homeless In August this year.

Trinidad: Babies among homeless family of four

(Trinidad Guardian) A family of four, including two children aged 1 and 2, have been living on the streets for almost three months after the landlord put them out because of apparent tardiness by the government to pay a rental assistance grant promised to them.

Vice-President Joe Biden walks with then-Prime MInister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and President Michel Martelly of Haiti, after meeting at the Diplomatic Centre in Port-of-Spain on May 28, 2013.

Trinidad: Kamla told ‘administrative error’ not good enough

(Trinidad Guardian) Political leader of the United National Congress (UNC), Kamla Persad-Bissessar has apologised to United Kingdom politician Sir Kier Starmer, after her congratulatory message to President-elect of the United States, Joe Biden, reflected the exact wording of several of Starmer’s tweets.

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