For­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) of­fi­cial Robert Le Hunte says Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ny Beck­les will have his full sup­port if she puts her­self up for par­ty leader, as he ex­pects she will, and he’s open, af­ter dis­cus­sion with her and oth­er lead­er­ship of­fi­cials, to help re­build the par­ty.

The di­rec­tor of the Pan Amer­i­can Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion (PA­HO), Dr. Jar­bas Bar­bosa, has called on Min­istries of Health in the re­gion to in­crease sur­veil­lance and lead the charge to­wards the elim­i­na­tion of mos­qui­to breed­ing grounds in a bid to re­duce mos­qui­to-trans­mit­ted virus­es such as Dengue, Zi­ka and Chikun­gun­ya.

The Massy Group host­ed the Japan­ese am­bas­sador to T&T, Dr. Aki­ma Umeza­wa, at Massy Group’s Port of Spain head of­fice re­cent­ly.

Min­is­ter of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Sean Sobers says he has asked his per­ma­nent sec­re­tary to pro­vide a re­port on why Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­als now need a visa to vis­it Ire­land.