The Grav­i­ty Rac­ing As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (GRATT) launched the first-ever Box Cart In­ter­Col last Fri­day at the Ken­neth S. Julien Build­ing of the En­gi­neer­ing De­part­ment of the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies.

The Cou­va/Tabaquite/Tal­paro Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion (CT­TRC) has had to step in to pick up bulk waste in a Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) com­mu­ni­ty, al­though the con­tract to sup­ply those ser­vices was award­ed to Pi­cal Ser­vices Lim­it­ed, a com­pa­ny owned by Youth De­vel­op­ment and Na­tion­al Ser­vice Min­is­ter Fos­ter Cum­mings.

The Biden ad­min­is­tra­tion is poised to ad­mit Is­rael this week in­to an ex­clu­sive club that will al­low its cit­i­zens to trav­el to the Unit­ed States with­out a U.S. visa de­spite Wash­ing­ton’s on­go­ing con­cerns about the Is­raeli gov­ern­ment’s treat­ment of Pales­tin­ian Amer­i­cans.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) has ad­vised cus­tomers served by the TCO Boost­er Sta­tion, who are present­ly ex­pe­ri­enc­ing a dis­rup­tion in their wa­ter sup­ply, that this is due to a me­chan­i­cal prob­lem af­fect­ing one of the pumps at the fa­cil­i­ty.

Damari Jef­frey of La Brea went to the wa­ter park with his moth­er and oth­er fam­i­ly mem­bers for a birth­day par­ty.

Sta­tis­ti­cal of­fi­cials from Grena­da and Ja­maica are ex­pect­ed to join their coun­ter­parts from Latin Amer­i­ca at the three day 12th meet­ing of the Sta­tis­ti­cal Con­fer­ence of the Amer­i­c­as (SCA) that gets un­der­way here on Tues­day.

Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo will make her high­ly an­tic­i­pat­ed in­au­gur­al vis­it to To­ba­go on Wednes­day.

Milei­dy Mat­er­a­no, T&T’s Venezue­lan-born del­e­gate at the Miss Grand In­ter­na­tion­al Pageant in Viet­nam next month, says this coun­try will al­ways be her “first love”.

Cou­va Point Lisas Cham­ber of Com­merce (CPLCC) pres­i­dent Mukesh Ram­s­ingh wants the Gov­ern­ment to stop putting the squeeze on the peo­ple, start­ing with the 2024 Bud­get. He said the cost of liv­ing was al­ready too high and any ad­di­tion­al mea­sures will be un­bear­able.

It took fire of­fi­cers sev­er­al hours to ex­tin­guish a blaze that even­tu­al­ly gut­ted a com­mer­cial build­ing in Aranguez, San Juan, on Sat­ur­day.

A man was fa­tal­ly shot out­side an apart­ment in Chase Vil­lage, Ch­agua­nas, on Sat­ur­day night.

UWI prin­ci­pal, Prof Rose-Marie Belle An­toine, re­ceived the In­spi­ra­tional Ad­vo­cate Award at the In­ter­na­tion­al Women’s Fo­rum T&T’s (IWFTT) In­spi­ra­tional Women gala at the Hy­att Re­gency Ho­tel, in Port-of-Spain, last Tues­day night.