The De­vel­op­ment Bank of Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean (CAF) is pro­vid­ing US$700,000 to sup­port the Bar­ba­dos Wa­ter Au­thor­i­ty (BWA) with the re­duc­tion of non-rev­enue wa­ter wastage.

U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump kicked off a four-day Mid­dle East trip on Tues­day in Sau­di Ara­bia, putting the fo­cus on seal­ing eco­nom­ic agree­ments with a key Mideast al­ly while shared con­cerns about Iran’s nu­clear pro­gram and the war in Gaza bub­ble in the back­ground.

Trinidad and To­ba­go has as­sumed the chair­man­ship of the Board of Di­rec­tors of the De­vel­op­ment Bank of Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean (CAF), fol­low­ing a se­ries of lead­er­ship changes at the Min­istry of Fi­nance in the wake of April’s gen­er­al elec­tion.

Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe says in­vest­ment in the well-be­ing of nurs­es is es­sen­tial to the de­vel­op­ment of the coun­try’s econ­o­my and health­care sys­tem.

A po­lit­i­cal leader for the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment will be elect­ed at the end of June, when the par­ty con­ducts its in­ter­nal elec­tions.

Au­di­tor Gen­er­al Jai­wantie Ram­dass has with­drawn her high-pro­file law­suit against the Cab­i­net. The case was dropped af­ter the State con­ced­ed, agree­ing to pay Ram­dass’ le­gal costs and ef­fec­tive­ly end­ing the in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher is back at the helm of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS), al­beit it may be for just a few days.

Months af­ter he in­ter­act­ed with Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher as one of her sub­or­di­nates, for­mer se­nior su­per­in­ten­dent of po­lice and cur­rent Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der met with his for­mer boss again yes­ter­day. This time, how­ev­er, it was to dis­cuss her re­turn to the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice, af­ter she was cleared of wrong­do­ing in the on­go­ing Strate­gic Ser­vices Agency (SSA) probe.

The re­cent court or­der paving the way for the re­in­state­ment of Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher has trig­gered re­newed con­cerns about in­sta­bil­i­ty and pub­lic trust in the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS).

Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der says there have been no dis­cus­sions on who the prospec­tive can­di­dates are to per­ma­nent­ly fill the role of di­rec­tor of the Strate­gic Ser­vices Agency (SSA).

While every­one’s talk­ing about Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP) Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher’s re­in­state­ment, for­mer Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PolSC) mem­ber, Prof Ramesh De­osaran, be­lieves Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (DCP) – In­tel­li­gence and In­ves­ti­ga­tions Suzette Mar­tin has ques­tions to an­swer.

A date is ex­pect­ed to be an­nounced soon for the open­ing of Par­lia­ment’s new term—the First Ses­sion of the 13th Par­lia­ment, of­fi­cial sources con­firmed yes­ter­day.