Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has ex­pressed dis­ap­point­ment af­ter nine sus­pects de­tained in con­nec­tion with van­dal­ism against Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) in­fra­struc­ture were re­leased.

For­mer prime min­is­ter and en­er­gy min­is­ter Stu­art Young is ques­tion­ing whether glob­al fer­tilis­er gi­ant Nu­trien is prepar­ing to sell its phys­i­cal as­sets in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Ne­go­tia­tors from Iran and the U.S. pre­pared for high-lev­el talks with their cease­fire still shaky Fri­day, as Is­rael and Hezbol­lah trad­ed fire and Tehran main­tained its stran­gle­hold on the Strait of Hor­muz.

Khadi­jah Ameen is main­tain­ing mu­nic­i­pal cor­po­ra­tions must set­tle debts be­fore host­ing events, as the chair­man of the Tu­na­puna/Pi­ar­co Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion re­jects her po­si­tion as “false and mis­lead­ing”.

For­mer Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has called for the im­ple­men­ta­tion of a ban on all jet ski ac­tiv­i­ties near the pop­u­lar bathing beach­es at Pi­geon Point, To­ba­go.

To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine is weigh­ing an out­right ban on the use of jet skis in To­ba­go, fol­low­ing the trag­ic death of An­gel­i­ca Jo­gie at Pi­geon Point on Wednes­day.

Out­side the Pi­geon Point Her­itage Park yes­ter­day, the mood was som­bre as tour op­er­a­tors hud­dled to­geth­er talk­ing qui­et­ly about the in­ci­dent that left An­gel­i­ca Jo­gie dead, their boats sit­ting emp­ty an­chored near­by on the wa­ter.

The Mar­itime Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go yes­ter­day called for the in­tro­duc­tion of stricter leg­is­la­tion and tougher penal­ties for breach­es of jet ski op­er­a­tion pro­to­cols, say­ing de­ci­sive ac­tion is need­ed to de­ter reck­less be­hav­iour and pre­vent fur­ther loss of life.

The North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA) yes­ter­day wel­comed a co­hort of 61 reg­is­tered nurs­es.

The Gov­ern­ment has ac­knowl­edged the le­git­i­ma­cy of Venezuela’s cur­rent ad­min­is­tra­tion, sig­nalling a shift in its pre­vi­ous­ly guard­ed po­si­tion on the po­lit­i­cal cri­sis in Cara­cas.

Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) will add a US$15-25 fu­el sur­charge to all re­gion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al tick­ets. The sur­charge will ap­ply per sec­tor and will be ap­plied to all tick­ets pur­chased on or af­ter April 10. Tick­ets bought be­fore April 10 will not at­tract the fu­el sur­charge. How­ev­er, tick­ets for flights be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go will re­main un­af­fect­ed.

Cari­com Heads of Gov­ern­ment are con­ven­ing an ur­gent emer­gency meet­ing to­day to ad­dress an es­ca­lat­ing diplo­mat­ic rift sparked by Trinidad and To­ba­go’s for­mal protest over the man­ner in which the reap­point­ment of Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al Car­la Bar­nett was han­dled.