One man is as­sist­ing po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tors af­ter an at­tack on for­mer Min­is­ter of Sports Manohar Ram­saran yes­ter­day in Cunu­pia. The 73-year-old pres­i­dent of the Munroe Road Crick­et Club was tak­ing his morn­ing walk just af­ter six o’clock when he was at­tacked near the club.

The En­er­gy Cham­ber of T&T has “warm­ly wel­comed” yes­ter­day’s sign­ing of agree­ments be­tween bpTT, Shell, The Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny of T&T Ltd (the At­lantic share­hold­ers) and the Gov­ern­ment of T&T for the re­struc­tur­ing of the At­lantic LNG fa­cil­i­ty.

The fol­low­ing is the bul­letin is­sued by the Met Ser­vice to 10:00 am, to­day, cov­er­ing the pe­ri­od: this af­ter­noon and tonight…

The De­sali­na­tion Com­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go (De­sal­cott) has com­plet­ed sched­uled main­te­nance works and has re­turned to ser­vice, the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty has con­firmed in state­ment is­sued a short while ago.

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.