For­mer Petrotrin re­fin­ery ex­pert Gow­tam Ma­haraj says he hopes at least one train at the shut­tered Pointe-a-Pierre re­fin­ery can be restart­ed with­in a year, cre­at­ing more jobs and bol­ster­ing T&T’s for­eign ex­change re­serves.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine says it is up to the Of­fice of the Pro­cure­ment Reg­u­la­tor, not the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA). to de­ter­mine whether the To­ba­go Re­hion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (TRHA) fol­lowed prop­er pro­ce­dure in ac­quir­ing new am­bu­lances.

Some med­ical doc­tors in T&T have been un­der­cut­ting phar­ma­cies by il­le­gal­ly sell­ing phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal drugs di­rect­ly to pa­tients, in turn, putting pa­tients’ health at risk, a Guardian Me­dia in­ves­ti­ga­tion has re­vealed.

The Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) launched a scathing at­tack on the In­de­pen­dent Sen­ate bench yes­ter­day, not on­ly ques­tion­ing their in­de­pen­dence but in­fer­ring that the Pres­i­dent, who has close PNM ties, placed them there to thwart the gov­ern­ment.

In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tors are push­ing back against the an­ti-gov­ern­ment la­bel at­trib­uted to them by the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC), with one sen­a­tor ask­ing that they re­frain from us­ing in­tim­i­da­tion to get their way.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath has told fired CEPEP work­ers that the gov­ern­ment will put poli­cies in place to em­pow­er them be­yond cut­ting grass for the rest of their lives.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) has chal­lenged the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC)-led coali­tion gov­ern­ment to pro­duce ev­i­dence of wrong­do­ing in the Com­mu­ni­ty-based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP).

The State has been or­dered to pay more than $1.6 mil­lion in com­pen­sa­tion to for­mer Equal Op­por­tu­ni­ty Com­mis­sion (EOC) chief ex­ec­u­tive De­van­ty Maraj-Ramdeen for fail­ing to give her a prop­er op­por­tu­ni­ty to earn a re­new­al of her con­tract.

Pen­ne­lope Beck­les of­fi­cial­ly took the reins of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) on Sun­day, be­com­ing the first woman to lead the par­ty since its found­ing near­ly sev­en decades ago.

Mas­sive land move­ment in Los Iros has caused gap­ing cracks, se­vere road dam­age and de­struc­tion of agri­cul­tur­al lands leav­ing 35 farm­ers cut off from their gar­dens and putting their liveli­hoods in jeop­ardy.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) has promised im­proved wa­ter sup­ply to res­i­dents in Pe­nal and Siparia with­in six months, fol­low­ing a week­end tour of af­fect­ed ar­eas by its Act­ing Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer, Jee­van Joseph.

In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tors are re­ject­ing the “an­ti-gov­ern­ment” la­bel at­trib­uted to them by the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC), with one Sen­a­tor urg­ing them to stop us­ing in­tim­i­da­tion to in­flu­ence out­comes.