The po­lit­i­cal leader of the Pro­gres­sive Em­pow­er­ment Par­ty (PEP), Phillip Ed­ward Alexan­der, joins the na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty in mourn­ing the pass­ing of for­mer High Court judge and politi­cian, Her­bert Vol­ney who died on Wednes­day morn­ing.

The 19-year-old La Ro­maine res­i­dent was stand­ing on Cipero Street around 11:10 pm wait­ing for a taxi when the four sus­pects, one armed with a gun, ac­cost­ed her.

Chair of the Sir Arthur Lewis In­sti­tute of So­cial and Eco­nom­ic Stud­ies (SALIS­ES) Dis­abil­i­ty Stud­ies Re­search Clus­ter at the UWI Dr Be­phy­er Parey rec­om­mends a dis­abil­i­ty em­ploy­ment data­base to be es­tab­lished in T&T to al­low peo­ple with dis­abil­i­ties to ap­ply for work.

Ve­he­ment­ly op­posed to the con­struc­tion of a T&T Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) tow­er near their homes, res­i­dents of Siparia Old Road, Fyz­abad staged a protest on Wednes­day as they pre­pared to file an in­junc­tion against the Com­mis­sion.

Just a day af­ter the Min­istry of Works and Trans­port patched it up, the Bras­so Ve­na­do Main Road has fall­en apart again.

If Paria Fu­el Trad­ing Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed had been con­stant­ly mon­i­tor­ing works be­ing done by LM­CS on Feb­ru­ary 25 at its Berth 6 ris­er, the trag­ic ac­ci­dent which cost four men their lives would not have hap­pened.

The news was con­firmed to Guardian Me­dia by his for­mer Cab­i­net col­league Dr Roodal Mooni­lal who said he had been in con­tact with the fam­i­ly.

There will be two days of rest be­fore the quar­ter­fi­nals start in Qatar with at least one sur­pris­ing team still in con­tention to win soc­cer’s biggest prize.

Health, Safe­ty and En­vi­ron­ment tech­ni­cian An­drew Dop­son says he was un­aware that Land and Ma­rine Con­tract­ing Ser­vices (LM­CS) divers were re­mov­ing the mi­gra­tion bar­ri­er that caused the dead­ly Dif­fer­en­tial Pres­sure (Delta P), which ul­ti­mate­ly led to the death of four divers.

At­tor­ney Lar­ry Lal­la has of­fered his con­do­lences to the fam­i­ly of for­mer Judge and politi­cian, Her­bert Vol­ney.

From 5:00 am on Fri­day, De­cem­ber 9, a Haz­ardous Seas Alert/YEL­LOW Lev­el will be ac­ti­vat­ed and cov­er north ex­posed and shel­tered nearshore coastal wa­ters of both Trinidad and To­ba­go, and re­main in ef­fect un­til 6:00 pm on Tues­day, De­cem­ber 13.

De­tails are still com­ing in but Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands Mr Vol­ney died of a heart at­tack at 7:45 am to­day.