The Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) is de­fend­ing Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath’s over­sight of the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA), fol­low­ing claims that the Gov­ern­ment may be over­step­ping its in­volve­ment at the State util­i­ty.

Win­ston “Gyp­sy” Pe­ters has of­fi­cial­ly ten­dered his res­ig­na­tion as chair­man of the Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion (NCC).

Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary of the Na­tion­al Trade Union Cen­tre (NATUC) Michael An­nisette has ac­cused for­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley of us­ing the al­leged ex­ploita­tion of women by po­lit­i­cal fig­ures as part of a po­lit­i­cal nar­ra­tive while call­ing for a high­er stan­dard of ac­count­abil­i­ty and rep­re­sen­ta­tion from elect­ed of­fi­cials.

Stu­dents of the Ch­agua­nas North Sec­ondary School will re­sume their stud­ies on­line fol­low­ing the sus­pen­sion of in-per­son class­es due to in­fra­struc­tur­al is­sues at the school.

Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe says he is ur­gent­ly gath­er­ing the nec­es­sary in­for­ma­tion to shed light on why lo­cal nurs­ing stu­dents are fail­ing CXC’s Re­gion­al Ex­am­i­na­tion for Nurse Reg­is­tra­tion (RENR).

Fam­i­ly Plan­ning As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent, Prof Rose-Marie Belle An­toine, says the or­gan­i­sa­tion may have to cur­tail its ser­vice used by Venezue­lan mi­grants, in­clud­ing sur­vivors of sex­u­al as­sault, over cuts in in­ter­na­tion­al fund­ing.

Pres­i­dent of the All To­ba­go Fish­er­folk As­so­ci­a­tion (AT­FA), Cur­tis Dou­glas, is call­ing for an ur­gent meet­ing with Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, hop­ing the new ad­min­is­tra­tion will fi­nal­ly end what he de­scribed as decades of il­le­gal fish­ing in To­ba­go’s wa­ters.

For­mer Cen­tral Bank gov­er­nor Jwala Ram­bar­ran has been or­dered to pay over $100,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to for­mer Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert for defama­tion.

Lawyers rep­re­sent­ing En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal have been giv­en a lit­tle over a month to file a de­fence to a defama­tion law­suit brought by a busi­ness­man and two of his com­pa­nies.

Se­cu­ri­ty ex­perts are warn­ing that adopt­ing El Sal­vador’s hard­line ap­proach to crime in Trinidad and To­ba­go could back­fire, un­der­min­ing pub­lic con­fi­dence, dam­ag­ing the coun­try’s in­ter­na­tion­al stand­ing, and open­ing the door to hu­man rights vi­o­la­tions.

Mo­ments af­ter shop­pers and vis­i­tors to Long Cir­cu­lar Mall, St James, rushed to safe­ty, af­ter gun­shots rang out around mid­day dur­ing an al­leged con­fronta­tion be­tween se­cu­ri­ty guards and an armed ban­dit, the dead man’s wife ar­rived at the scene and broke down in tears as she watched his body on the ground.

The body of a man, which was found along the seashore near the Paragon Sports and Cul­tur­al Club along the West­ern Main Road, Co­corite, on Tues­day morn­ing, re­mained uniden­ti­fied up to yes­ter­day.