The re­al pur­pose of Venezuela Vice-Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez’s trip to T&T in late March was the dis­cus­sion of oil and gas agree­ments, not the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic. That was the claim made yes­ter­day by Julio Borges, a mem­ber of Venezuela’s op­po­si­tion.

Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter An­tho­ny Gar­cia says the Caribbean Ad­vanced Pro­fi­cien­cy Ex­am (CAPE) and the Caribbean Sec­ondary Ed­u­ca­tion Cer­tifi­cate (CSEC) ex­am­i­na­tions sched­uled for Ju­ly will not be on­line done in T&T. In­stead, Gar­cia said the ex­am­i­na­tions will be ad­min­is­tered on pa­per in schools. 

Gov­ern­ment is ar­rang­ing to send a Caribbean Air­lines plane in June for T&T stu­dents at UWI’s Bar­ba­dos and Ja­maica cam­pus­es if they wish to come home, but they’ll first have to be quar­an­tined over­seas and al­so again in T&T when they re­turn.

A man in his late twen­ties was stabbed mul­ti­ple times by a male rel­a­tive on Mon­day morn­ing in La Hor­quet­ta.

A clause in the Paria Fu­el Trad­ing Com­pa­ny con­tract re­gard­ing the con­tro­ver­sial oil ship­ment to Aru­ba stip­u­lat­ed that the fu­el shouldn’t go to any coun­try which was un­der sanc­tion by the US - such as Iran, South Ko­rea or Venezuela.

To kick­start the con­struc­tion sec­tor and by ex­ten­sion the econ­o­my, the T&T Con­trac­tors’ As­so­ci­a­tion is propos­ing the Gov­ern­ment roll out a three phase ap­proach.

How are coun­tries around the world util­is­ing their sov­er­eign wealth funds dur­ing this time of cri­sis caused by COVID-19?

Po­lit­i­cal sci­en­tist Dr Bish­nu Ra­goonath says Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has to come up with more cre­ative an­swers and it is disin­gen­u­ous of him to say he didn’t know about the com­po­si­tion of Venezue­lan Vice Pres­i­dent, Del­cy Ro­driguez’s del­e­ga­tion in their meet­ing.

Busi­ness­es are hurt­ing bad­ly be­cause of COVID-19 and the gov­ern­ment is just not do­ing enough to help them, the Amer­i­can Cham­ber of Com­merce of T&T has said.

The po­lit­i­cal bat­tle be­tween Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley and Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar seems to be head­ing for the courts as Per­sad-Bisses­sar has giv­en in­struc­tions to her lawyers to ini­ti­ate le­gal ac­tion against the Prime Min­is­ter for state­ments he made about her dur­ing a news con­fer­ence on Fri­day.

By 6 am yes­ter­day there were al­ready around 25 peo­ple walk­ing, rid­ing, and run­ning along La­dy Chan­cel­lor Hill.

Op­po­si­tion Leader, Kam­la Per­sad Bisses­sar has called on Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley to open up small busi­ness­es and man­u­fac­tur­ing com­pa­nies as part of the first phase of re­open­ing that kicks in to­day.