The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has launched an im­me­di­ate in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the al­leged leak­ing of sen­si­tive in­for­ma­tion re­lat­ed to a re­cent sex­u­al as­sault in­ves­ti­ga­tion against at­tor­ney Mar­tin George.

The Ba­hamas gov­ern­ment Fri­day said its re­la­tion­ship with Chi­na is “root­ed in co­op­er­a­tion, de­vel­op­ment and shared val­ues” as the two coun­tries signed a frame­work agree­ment for the con­struc­tion of a new spe­cial­i­ty hos­pi­tal in west­ern New Prov­i­dence.

The Law As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go is call­ing on the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) and oth­er rel­e­vant au­thor­i­ties to launch an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the leak of con­fi­den­tial in­for­ma­tion sur­round­ing a re­port of sex­u­al as­sault made by a ju­nior at­tor­ney against a se­nior le­gal prac­ti­tion­er.

The Unit­ed States is sell­ing weapons to its NA­TO al­lies in Eu­rope so they can pro­vide them to Ukraine as it strug­gles to fend off a re­cent es­ca­la­tion in Rus­sia’s drone and mis­sile at­tacks, Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump and his chief diplo­mat said.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) has ne­go­ti­at­ed a new sched­ule for the an­nu­al main­te­nance of the Point Lisas De­sali­na­tion Plant, shift­ing it to Au­gust in a move to re­duce dis­rup­tion to cit­i­zens.

The Min­istry of Health, the Med­ical Board of Trinidad and To­ba­go, the Phar­ma­cy Board, and the Trinidad and To­ba­go Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce have agreed to a 30-day col­lab­o­ra­tive plan to re­solve con­cerns over the dis­tri­b­u­tion of spe­cial­ty drugs di­rect­ly to pa­tients.

The T&T As­so­ci­a­tion of Re­tired Per­sons (TTARP) has wel­comed Gov­ern­ment's plan to ex­empt pen­sions from tax­es and the Steel Work­ers' Union of T&T al­so wants Gov­ern­ment to "rewrite the wrong" and fa­cil­i­tate ben­e­fits for for­mer Arcelor/Mit­tal work­ers.

Pa­tri­ot­ic Front po­lit­i­cal leader Mick­ela Pan­day yes­ter­day called on the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress Gov­ern­ment to stop bul­ly­ing those they feel hold dif­fer­ing views from theirs.

A war of words has bro­ken out be­tween cur­rent En­er­gy Min­is­ter Roodal Mooni­lal and for­mer En­er­gy min­is­ter Stu­art Young, over Mooni­lal’s ac­cu­sa­tions of an al­leged “$6 bil­lion er­ror” in a pric­ing ma­trix un­der Young’s tenure.

A 12-mem­ber com­mit­tee head­ed by for­mer en­er­gy min­is­ter Kevin Ram­nar­ine, and in­clud­ing for­mer Petrotrin re­fin­ery man­agers and OW­TU of­fi­cials, has been man­dat­ed to de­vel­op a strat­e­gy for the re­fin­ery’s re­ac­ti­va­tion and sub­mit a re­port by Oc­to­ber.

De­mer­it points for the ma­jor­i­ty of traf­fic vi­o­la­tions in Trinidad and To­ba­go will soon be scrapped, but penal­ties will re­main for six crim­i­nal dri­ving of­fences, in­clud­ing dri­ving un­der the in­flu­ence of al­co­hol or drugs.

The Na­tion­al Par­ent Teach­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (NPTA) says while it sup­ports the Gov­ern­ment’s plan to place po­lice of­fi­cers in high-risk schools from Sep­tem­ber as a way to curb vi­o­lence and delin­quen­cy among stu­dents, deep­er and more sus­tain­able strate­gies must be part of the so­lu­tion.