The Uni­ver­si­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (UTT) has cre­at­ed a waste man­age­ment roadmap for the La Brea In­dus­tri­al De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (LABID­CO), which could see a re­duc­tion of its gen­er­at­ed waste by thou­sands of tonnes, an­nu­al­ly.

Min­is­ter of Fi­nance Colm Im­bert MP has giv­en a re­port to the coun­try on the ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port project at the post-Cab­i­net me­dia brief­ing.

The Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Cu­mu­to/Man­zanil­la, Dr. Rai Rag­bir, is urg­ing Gov­ern­ment to be on the alert in the event a mys­te­ri­ous dis­ease in the De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Re­pub­lic of Con­go—which al­ready has claimed dozens of lives and in­fect­ed hun­dreds more—makes an ap­pear­ance in T&T.

Pub­lic health of­fi­cials in Africa urged cau­tion Thurs­day as Con­go’s health min­is­ter said the gov­ern­ment was on alert over a mys­tery flu-like dis­ease that in re­cent weeks killed dozens of peo­ple.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has threat­ened that To­ba­go will ask the world for help if the Cen­tral Gov­ern­ment re­fus­es to grant the is­land greater au­ton­o­my. Speak­ing at the To­ba­go Day Awards be­fore diplo­mats and am­bas­sadors at the Shaw Park Cul­tur­al Com­plex last night, Au­gus­tine said To­ba­go will fight for its right to self-de­ter­mi­na­tion un­der in­ter­na­tion­al law.

The head of Britain’s armed forces has warned that the world stands at the cusp of a “third nu­clear age,’’ de­fined by mul­ti­ple si­mul­ta­ne­ous chal­lenges and weak­ened safe­guards that kept pre­vi­ous threats in check.

Prime Min­is­ter of the Ba­hamas, Phillip Davis, said on Wednes­day he had ac­cept­ed the res­ig­na­tion of Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Clay­ton Fer­nan­der, as the fall­out con­tin­ues from the in­dict­ment by US law en­force­ment au­thor­i­ties of a se­nior Ba­hami­an po­lice of­fi­cer on charges of con­spir­a­cy to im­port co­caine, as well as pos­ses­sion and use of firearms last week.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley and Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar are now in a war of words on the ANR Robin­son Air­port ex­pan­sion project in To­ba­go.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s Laven­tille East/Mor­vant con­stituen­cy ex­ec­u­tive wants MP Adri­an Leonce to re­con­sid­er his de­ci­sion not to re­con­test the seat for gen­er­al elec­tion.

Days af­ter a woman and four chil­dren es­caped se­ri­ous in­jury when a bul­let fired by a po­lice­man try­ing to sub­due a sus­pect struck their car, the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice says it will re­view its Use of Force Pol­i­cy.

The Joint Trade Union Move­ment’s (JTUM) planned protest for Sat­ur­day has been giv­en a nu­mer­i­cal boost, as the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) and Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) mem­bers have pledged their at­ten­dance.

The West In­dies Group of Uni­ver­si­ty Teach­ers (WIGUT) is still await­ing com­mu­ni­ca­tion from the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies’ (UWI) St Au­gus­tine Cam­pus re­gard­ing the next steps in their long-stand­ing salary ne­go­ti­a­tion im­passe.