Al­ready strug­gling to bat­tle se­vere weath­er in Texas, lo­cal au­thor Hazel-Ann McLean and her two chil­dren were hit with a dou­ble wham­my when their fam­i­ly home was de­stroyed by fire.

His home­town of Point Fortin and per­haps every proud Trinida­di­an would be tun­ing in on Fri­day to watch Arthur Joseph com­pete for ‘big mon­ey’ on one of Amer­i­ca’s longest-run­ning game shows—ABC’s Wheel of For­tune.

De­spite Car­ni­val 2021 be­ing de­void of rev­el­ry, San Fer­nan­do May­or Ju­nia Re­grel­lo says the ta­ban­ca felt now may make the 2022 sea­son ex­cep­tion­al­ly big­ger than pre­vi­ous years.

There are no plans to pri­va­tise the Wa­ter and Sewage Au­thor­i­ty, as­sures Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Mar­vin Gon­za­les, who says it sim­ply is not a fea­si­ble op­tion for this coun­try.

A San Juan man has been or­dered to keep the peace and fined $500, af­ter plead­ing guilty to two out of three charges fol­low­ing an in­ci­dent which oc­curred in down­town Port-of-Spain on Feb­ru­ary 19th.

A house search car­ried out by San­gre Grande po­lice in North Oropouche, San­gre Grand, led of­fi­cers to the dis­cov­ery of an il­le­gal firearm, 189 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion and a large quan­ti­ty of mar­i­jua­na and co­caine.

Al­though a Cab­i­net sub-com­mit­tee has rec­om­mend­ed the in­cre­men­tal dis­so­lu­tion of the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) and re­place it with a Wa­ter Man­age­ment Com­pa­ny with a re­vised wa­ter sec­tor mod­el over a three-year tran­si­tionary pe­ri­od, Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Mar­vin Gon­za­les said Cab­i­net held a dif­fer­ent view in which the trans­for­ma­tion should take place.

A spe­cial­ly-com­mis­sioned re­port in­to the op­er­a­tions of the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) has found the cash-strapped en­ti­ty plagued by fi­nan­cial mis­man­age­ment, a lack of man­age­r­i­al ac­count­abil­i­ty, cor­rup­tion, par­al­lel op­er­a­tions by rep­re­sen­ta­tive trade unions and a gen­er­al re­fusal by em­ploy­ees to work.

A nurse at­tached to the St Anns Hos­pi­tal was laid to rest yes­ter­day, af­ter ap­par­ent­ly los­ing a bat­tle with com­pli­ca­tions caused by COVID-19. 

Lo­cat­ed on the cor­ner of Ari­api­ta Av­enue and Ros­ali­no Street, the Welfor Med­ical Store of­fers a wide range of prod­ucts to the pub­lic and med­ical pro­fes­sion­als.

A glob­al short­age of the COVID-19 vac­cine, cou­pled with a man­date for the In­dia-based man­u­fac­tur­ers to meet do­mes­tic de­mand first may mean a longer wait for the vac­cine lo­cal­ly.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Mar­vin Gon­za­les yes­ter­day rub­bished queries by UNC sen­a­tor Wade Mark on whether Cab­i­net yes­ter­day “de­cid­ed to pri­va­tise” the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA).