The Uni­ver­si­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s (UTT) ap­proval of al­most half-bil­lion dol­lars in vari­a­tions for the Tamana In­Tech Park Cam­pus in 2013 is “com­plete­ly un­ac­cept­able” and out­side the norm of the con­struc­tion in­dus­try, says Derek Out­ridge, a project man­age­ment con­sul­tant.

Ains­ley King, chair­man of the Trin­ba­go Uni­fied Ca­lyp­so­ni­ans’ Or­ga­ni­za­tion (TU­CO) To­ba­go Zone and new­ly ap­point­ed vice pres­i­dent of the Copy­right Or­ga­ni­za­tion of T&T (COTT), has pledged $60,000 to help needy ca­lyp­so­ni­ans and mem­bers.

The Bar­keep­ers & Op­er­a­tors As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad & To­ba­go (BOATT) con­firmed yes­ter­day that Teron Mo­han is no longer its in­ter­im pres­i­dent. He has been re­placed by vice pres­i­dent, Satesh Moonasar ef­fec­tive im­me­di­ate­ly.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith is warn­ing par­ty pro­mot­ers against or­gan­is­ing events in breach of COVID-19 pub­lic health reg­u­la­tions. 

The Venezue­lan Gov­ern­ment hasn’t yet ap­proved T&T’s re­quest for a fol­low-up vis­it to the oil tanker Nabari­ma which ex­perts had rec­om­mend­ed be done by last Fri­day. This was con­firmed by For­eign Af­fairs Min­is­ter Amery Browne.

For more than a month res­i­dents of Ica­cos Vil­lage, Ce­dros, have been grap­pling with sea­wa­ter flood­ing in and around their prop­er­ties due to spring tides. This has caused a se­vere mos­qui­to out­break and oth­er health con­cerns since sev­er­al cesspits are flood­ed and there is a strong foul stench in the area.

In re­sponse to crit­i­cisms from Gov­ern­ment and Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Gary Grif­fith, the UNC has dou­bled down on its de­ci­sion to ab­stain from vot­ing for an ex­ten­sion of the An­ti-Gang Bill.

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) po­lit­i­cal leader can­di­date Vas­ant Bharath has again chal­lenged Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to de­bate him pub­licly be­fore the par­ty’s in­ter­nal elec­tions on De­cem­ber 6.

A po­lice of­fi­cer and sol­dier were in­jured when the ve­hi­cle in which they were trav­el­ling in ran off the To­co Road and crashed in­to a precipice yes­ter­day morn­ing. Both are ward­ed in sta­ble con­di­tion at the San­gre Grande Hos­pi­tal.

Around 6.30 pm, res­i­dents of Bot­tle Al­ley Road, off the La­dy Young Road in Mor­vant, re­port­ed hear­ing a vol­ley of gun­shots. When of­fi­cers ar­rived in the com­mu­ni­ty, the vic­tim had al­ready been tak­en to hos­pi­tal by a res­i­dent and they found six spent 9 mm shell cas­ings on the scene. 

The lat­est up­date from the Min­istry of Health is con­firm­ing 126 new pos­i­tive cas­es of COVID-19, bring­ing the to­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es in the coun­try to 725 pa­tients.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) has can­celled the Yel­low Lev­el Ad­verse Weath­er Alert ac­ti­vat­ed ear­li­er to­day, as weath­er con­di­tions have eased.