Mo­roc­co be­came the first Arab na­tion to ad­vance to the World Cup quar­ter­fi­nals, beat­ing Spain 3-0 in a penal­ty shootout on Tues­day.

Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Princes Town, Bar­ry Padarath MP, is ap­peal­ing to the Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Util­i­ties Mar­vin Gon­za­les MP to en­sure that wa­ter sup­plies are made avail­able to cit­i­zens who were bad­ly im­pact­ed by re­cent flood­ing, to as­sist with their clean-up ef­forts.

Eight-year-old Je­hue Thomas has an in­domitable will to live, but he faces a tough bat­tle with can­cer.

LM­CS Lim­it­ed, the div­ing com­pa­ny whose four divers died in a pipeline at the Paria Fu­el Trad­ing Com­pa­ny ear­li­er this year, has halt­ed all its op­er­a­tions.

The Min­istry of Trade and In­dus­try (MTI) has said that in­vest­ments in the lo­cal econ­o­my to the tune of rough­ly $1 bil­lion cre­at­ed over 3,500 jobs in Fis­cal 2022, and that the coun­try re­mains at­trac­tive to di­rect for­eign in­vest­ment.

Ah­mad Ali, the HSSE man­ag­er for LM­CS Lim­it­ed, says when he ar­rived on Berth 6 on Feb­ru­ary 25, he saw no one pre­vent­ing any res­cue at­tempts.

The Wa­ter Taxi Ser­vice has an­nounced changes to its sail­ing sched­ule for De­cem­ber 2022, to cov­er ex­tra trans­port needs for the Christ­mas sea­son.

Chief Sec­re­tary of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA), Far­ley Au­gus­tine, says no elec­tions on the is­land will be called, de­spite var­i­ous calls for him to do so.

Po­lice have charged a 40-year-old labour­er with com­mon as­sault. He ap­peared be­fore an Ari­ma mag­is­trate where he was grant­ed $50,000 bail and will reap­pear in court on De­cem­ber 29 2022.

The fi­nal day of the round of 16 con­cludes Tues­day at the World Cup when Mo­roc­co faces Spain, and Por­tu­gal goes head-to-head with Switzer­land for the fi­nal two spots in the quar­ter­fi­nals.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty is ad­vis­ing mo­torists and mem­bers of the gen­er­al pub­lic of traf­fic re­stric­tions at the in­ter­sec­tion of Morne Co­co Road and Diego Mar­tin High­way, Four Roads, Diego Mar­tin.

For a third straight week, there were no new deaths from COVID-19 in To­ba­go—and the is­land’s death toll from the dis­ease re­mains at 287, as at Sat­ur­day, De­cem­ber 3.