For­mer prime min­is­ter and en­er­gy min­is­ter Stu­art Young has chal­lenged claims made by the Gov­ern­ment dur­ing yes­ter­day’s sign­ing of the Pro­duc­tion Shar­ing Con­tract (PSC) with Exxon­Mo­bil for Block TTUD-1.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has re­it­er­at­ed her stern warn­ing to mem­bers of her Gov­ern­ment to steer clear of ques­tion­able al­liances, just a day af­ter pub­licly threat­en­ing to “buss their heads” and fire min­is­ters caught “ca­vort­ing” with fig­ures linked to cor­rup­tion.

For­mer trade and in­dus­try min­is­ter Stephen Cadiz says Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s read­ing of the ri­ot act to her min­is­ters and Mem­bers of Par­lia­ment (MPs) is on­ly to ap­peal to her UNC sup­port­ers.

The Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer (CEO) of the Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) is be­ing ac­cused of de­lib­er­ate­ly leav­ing out a key para­graph from the dis­put­ed 2017 Cab­i­net note in a let­ter to the com­pa­ny’s new chair­man. In the let­ter, he cau­tioned that the board does not have the au­thor­i­ty to uni­lat­er­al­ly re­new mul­ti­ple con­tracts with­out gov­ern­ment ap­proval.

Mi­nor­i­ty Leader Kelvon Mor­ris says the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly is spend­ing mil­lions on over­seas trips while lo­cal busi­ness­es, work­ers, and even Gov­ern­ment of­fices can’t get paid or sup­plied with ba­sics like toi­let pa­per.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says her Gov­ern­ment’s sus­pen­sion of the Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) and re­view of the Un­em­ploy­ment Re­lief Pro­gramme (URP) has trig­gered push­back from what she de­scribed as the “deep state” and “the bel­ly of the un­der­world.

For­mer po­lice com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith is ful­ly en­dors­ing Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro for what Grif­fith says is his in-your-face ap­proach to crim­i­nals.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says a third au­top­sy may have to be con­duct­ed to de­ter­mine the cause of death of six-year-old Jash­er Fran­cois.

The younger broth­er of Coast Guard sailor Kieron Si­mon is still call­ing for an­swers and clar­i­ty on the de­tails of his dis­ap­pear­ance, as they ob­served what would have been his 37th birth­day yes­ter­day.

Two years af­ter Aver­zon Miller van­ished, her fam­i­ly says they are still liv­ing in lim­bo, wait­ing for con­fir­ma­tion about whether a de­com­posed body on the beach is hers.

A 20-year-old woman is be­ing treat­ed at the San­gre Grande Hos­pi­tal, af­ter she was doused with muri­at­ic acid in an at­tack in Rio Claro on Mon­day.

A 23-year-old sus­pect from Rio Claro, who al­leged­ly chopped his un­cle af­ter he was re­fused a cig­a­rette, has been de­tained by the po­lice.