De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge has or­dered that the itin­er­ary of Ja­maican dance­hall artist Vy­bz Kar­tel be cut.

Two days af­ter los­ing in court, for­mer po­lice com­mis­sion­er Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher and her at­tor­neys are ready­ing to re­turn there, af­ter her sus­pen­sion was lift­ed by the Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PolSC) hours af­ter she was sent on leave by new Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der.

For­mer TTPS pub­lic in­for­ma­tion of­fi­cer Sheri­don Hill says while the rep­u­ta­tion of the of­fice of the Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice has "tak­en a hit" in light of the ar­rest and sus­pen­sion of Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher, the ex­ec­u­tive should now en­gage in some in­tro­spec­tion to re­build their im­age.

The doc­u­ment sent by the Gov­ern­ment to the Pres­i­dent to be gazetted, which out­lines the roles and re­spon­si­bil­i­ties of each min­istry, con­tains er­rors and will now have to be amend­ed be­fore be­ing pub­lished.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has an­nounced that the cer­e­mo­ni­al open­ing of the new ses­sion of Par­lia­ment will take place on May 23. How­ev­er, she added yes­ter­day that “the first work­ing sit­ting will take place on a date to be fixed.”

The chair­man and board of di­rec­tors from the ma­jor­i­ty State-owned Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of T&T (TSTT) and its whol­ly owned sub­sidiary, Am­plia, have all re­signed. 

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.