The Trinidad and To­ba­go Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) con­firms a fire oc­curred at the Mal­oney Gar­dens Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment ear­ly this morn­ing. No one was hurt.

St Vin­cent and the Grenadines Min­is­ter of Fi­nance Camil­lo Gon­salves says the coun­try's econ­o­my lost an es­ti­mat­ed EC$290.12 mil­lion (US$107 mil­lion) fol­low­ing the col­lapse of the two Trinidad-based in­sur­ance com­pa­nies in 2009.

Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) has an­nounced that a quo­rum was not met for to­day’s piv­otal meet­ing on gov­er­nance re­form, as the rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Guyana Crick­et Board (GCB) and Bar­ba­dos Crick­et As­so­ci­a­tion (BCA) failed to at­tend, hav­ing opt­ed not to ap­point two rep­re­sen­ta­tives as re­quired by the com­pa­ny's Ar­ti­cles of As­so­ci­a­tion.

Mi­nus Par­lia­ment sit­ting yes­ter­day, the de­mands were ex­pect­ed to reach Gov­ern­ment via to­day’s protest out­side of White­hall.