For­mer Pub­lic Util­i­ties min­is­ter Mar­vin Gon­za­les isn’t sur­prised or both­ered that his trans­for­ma­tion plan for the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) has been gut­ted. How­ev­er, he is pre­dict­ing it will lead to cor­rup­tion.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says there will be no re­funds for prop­er­ty tax al­ready paid, de­spite ear­li­er re­marks by Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo sug­gest­ing oth­er­wise.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has promised to re­lease a re­port that will ex­pose what she de­scribes as a “forex car­tel” in this coun­try.

Eigh­teen thou­sand lap­tops will be pro­cured for stu­dents en­ter­ing Form One when the new school term be­gins in Sep­tem­ber.

Gov­ern­ment has con­firmed that Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher will not re­turn as Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice, opt­ing to buy out her 66 days of ac­cu­mu­lat­ed va­ca­tion leave and not re­new her con­tract. Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar said Cab­i­net made the de­ci­sion yes­ter­day, adding that Gov­ern­ment act­ed “with­in the law.”

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says it was she who in­flu­enced the Min­is­ter of De­fence’s de­ci­sion to re­strict Ja­maican dance­hall artiste Vy­bz Kar­tel’s in­ter­ac­tion with school chil­dren and the me­dia when he comes to this coun­try in prepa­ra­tion for his May 31 con­cert.

Act­ing Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Ju­nior Ben­jamin says while he has had no cor­re­spon­dence on ad­di­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty or mon­i­tor­ing for the ar­rival of Ja­maican dance­hall star Vy­bz Kar­tel in T&T lat­er this month, he did agree with a draft or­der to lim­it the artiste’s pub­lic ap­pear­ances in the lead-up to the con­cert.

The 18 in­mates on death row, who are un­der the five-year time­line of the Pratt and Mor­gan land­mark case, can­not be hanged since they have ap­peals on­go­ing.

The trade union move­ment has joined forces with the Con­fed­er­a­tion of Re­gion­al Busi­ness Cham­bers (CR­BC) to seek fund­ing from in­ter­na­tion­al fi­nan­cial mar­kets in a bid to restart the Pointe-a-Pierre re­fin­ery.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal is ac­cus­ing for­mer prime min­is­ter Stu­art Young of at­tempt­ing to cre­ate “mis­chief” when he called on the Gov­ern­ment to fix what he de­scribed as a se­ri­ous over­sight in min­is­te­r­i­al as­sign­ments.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) Gen­er­al Coun­cil meets in spe­cial ses­sion to­day to dis­cuss a pro­posed date for its in­ter­nal elec­tion. Par­ty sources say the date of June 25 is un­der heavy con­sid­er­a­tion.

To­day, in­sti­tu­tions, gov­ern­ments, or­gan­i­sa­tions, and in­di­vid­u­als around the globe will ob­serve World Day of the Boy Child (WD­BC) un­der the theme “Build­ing Self-es­teem in Boys: Stand Up, Be Heard, Be Seen.”