High Court Judge Frank Seep­er­sad is ex­pect­ed to de­ter­mine a wrong­ful dis­missal law­suit brought by for­mer Uni­ver­si­ty of T&T (UTT) provost Dr Fazal Ali in Jan­u­ary next year.

The even­tu­al Sharm el-Sheikh Im­ple­men­ta­tion Plan lacked strong lan­guage or res­o­lu­tions on re­duc­ing fos­sil fu­el us­age, lacked strength­en­ing net-ze­ro pledges and Na­tion­al­ly De­ter­mined Con­tri­bu­tions to meet de­car­boniza­tion goals that sup­port lim­it­ing warm­ing to 1.5 de­grees Cel­sius above pre-in­dus­tri­al­i­sa­tion lev­els.

This week will make it ex­act­ly six years since pupils of San­ta Flo­ra Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School were de­cant­ed to what par­ents/guardians called less than sat­is­fac­to­ry ac­com­mo­da­tion at Beach Camp, Pa­lo Seco.

Ac­tive par­lia­men­tar­i­ans who look on at the cur­rent Com­mon­wealth Youth Par­lia­ment be­ing held in T&T would do well to see what lessons might be learnt from par­tic­i­pants, in the way they de­port them­selves and in the re­spect which they show—not just to each oth­er, but to the process of law mak­ing.

A strong, shal­low earth­quake top­pled build­ings and walls on In­done­sia’s dense­ly pop­u­lat­ed main is­land on Mon­day, killing at least 62 and in­jur­ing hun­dreds as peo­ple fled in­to the street, some cov­ered in blood and de­bris.

FI­FA’s threat of on-field pun­ish­ment for play­ers forced World Cup teams to back down Mon­day and aban­don a plan for their cap­tains to wear arm­bands that were seen as a re­buke to host na­tion Qatar’s hu­man rights record.

Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands 37-year-old Im­ran Ali was dri­ving his ve­hi­cle along Rochard Dou­glas Road around noon.  When he reached the vicin­i­ty of The Teak, he was blocked by an­oth­er ve­hi­cle and two men came out, wear­ing dark cloth­ing and ski masks.

A man has died in a ve­hic­u­lar ac­ci­dent along the Churchill Roo­sevelt high­way, in the ear­ly hours of Mon­day (No­vem­ber 21) morn­ing.

Works Min­is­ter Ro­han Sinanan says re­pairs have start­ed on some of the land­slips at the Pe­nal Rock Road which threat­en to dis­rupt con­nec­tiv­i­ty be­tween Pe­nal and Moru­ga.

The fol­low­ing is the bul­letin is­sued by the Met Ser­vice to 06:00 am, to­day, cov­er­ing the pe­ri­od: to­day un­til mid­night…

At the end of two weeks of dis­cus­sions, the de­ci­sions tak­en at the COP27 cli­mate change talks in Egypt have brought the re­gion some fund­ing ben­e­fits but lit­tle in the form of ac­tu­al com­mit­ment to­wards mean­ing­ful re­duc­tions in emis­sions.

Greater calls are be­ing made for there to be more na­tion­al sup­port and in­clu­sive­ness for gift­ed peo­ple and those with dis­abil­i­ties.