Trinidad and To­ba­go has launched a four-year, US$4.85 mil­lion project aimed at re­duc­ing green­house gas emis­sions, pro­tect­ing bio­di­ver­si­ty and pro­mot­ing sus­tain­able eco­nom­ic de­vel­op­ment.

WASH­ING­TON (AP) — De­moc­rats won con­trol of both cham­bers of Con­gress, de­liv­er­ing a de­ci­sive re­buke of Re­pub­li­can gov­er­nance in Wash­ing­ton and ush­er­ing in a new era of con­gres­sion­al re­sis­tance to Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump.

It is a bit­ter irony that Trinidad and To­ba­go, which helped bring the In­ter­na­tion­al Crim­i­nal Court (ICC) in­to ex­is­tence, should now turn its back on the court to cur­ry favour with Wash­ing­ton, says for­mer UNC MP/min­is­ter Vas­ant Bharath.

A stu­dent has been sus­pend­ed for five days af­ter a 13-year-old Ce­dros Sec­ondary stu­dent was beat­en.

As the world watched with bat­ed breath for the out­come of yes­ter­day’s Unit­ed States midterm elec­tions, po­lit­i­cal com­men­ta­tors warned that Trinidad and To­ba­go’s close re­la­tion­ship with the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion could come un­der greater scruti­ny in Wash­ing­ton if De­moc­rats gained con­trol of Con­gress.

Eman­ci­pa­tion Sup­port Com­mit­tee mem­ber Shaba­ka Kam­bon says Britain’s colo­nial nar­ra­tive con­tin­ues to shield the Crown from ac­count­abil­i­ty, as King Charles III stopped short of an apol­o­gy and repa­ra­tions com­mit­ment dur­ing the open­ing cer­e­mo­ny of the Com­mon­wealth Heads of Gov­ern­ment Meet­ing in An­tigua and Bar­bu­da yes­ter­day.

A se­nior po­lice of­fi­cer has re­port­ed re­ceiv­ing threats from a man charged with firearm-re­lat­ed of­fences ear­li­er this year.

A road­side re­pair end­ed in tragedy yes­ter­day when a truck me­chan­ic was killed af­ter his ve­hi­cle was struck by a garbage truck along the Au­drey Jef­fers High­way.

Sev­er­al fire sta­tions across Trinidad and To­ba­go are in need of ur­gent re­pairs, with struc­tur­al de­fi­cien­cies, mould in­fes­ta­tion and oth­er health and safe­ty con­cerns af­fect­ing the Fire Ser­vice’s abil­i­ty to ef­fec­tive­ly pro­tect the pub­lic, act­ing Chief Fire Of­fi­cer Ansar Ali has said.

A Venezue­lan na­tion­al who suf­fered two work­place in­juries while em­ployed at a me­chan­i­cal con­tract­ing com­pa­ny is ap­peal­ing to the Min­istry of Labour for as­sis­tance, say­ing he has been left with­out an in­come and is strug­gling to sup­port him­self while re­cov­er­ing.

Stan­dard Five pupils of Canaan Pres­by­ter­ian School will re­turn to class­es to­day in the church hall, near­ly three weeks af­ter a fire de­stroyed the school’s main class­room block in Dun­can Vil­lage, San Fer­nan­do.

Un­di­ag­nosed di­a­betes, un­con­trolled hy­per­ten­sion and men­tal health chal­lenges re­main among the health con­cerns af­fect­ing in­di­vid­u­als and fam­i­lies across Trinidad and To­ba­go, Health Min­is­ter Dr Lakram Bo­doe has said.