Trinidad and To­ba­go and Guyana have fur­ther strength­ened their av­enues of eco­nom­ic and so­cial co­op­er­a­tion fol­low­ing re­cent talks be­tween the Pres­i­dent of Guyana His Ex­cel­len­cy Dr Mo­hamed Ir­faan Ali, and a del­e­ga­tion led by the Min­is­ter of Youth De­vel­op­ment and Na­tion­al Ser­vice, Fos­ter Cum­mings MP.

An Ad­verse Weath­er Alert/YEL­LOW Lev­el was ac­ti­vat­ed at 5 am to­day, and will re­main in ef­fect un­til 5 pm, ac­cord­ing to an ad­vi­so­ry from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS).

Af­ter spend­ing al­most 17 years in prison and fac­ing three tri­als, five men con­vict­ed of kid­nap­ping a busi­ness­woman and al­leged­ly bury­ing her alive have been set free. 

Fur­ther moves will be ini­ti­at­ed in about two weeks to weed out pos­si­ble fraud­u­lent pen­sion and grant re­ceipts - this time tar­get­ing per­pe­tra­tors over­seas.

“Win­ter is com­ing” for delin­quent em­ploy­ers who don’t take ad­van­tage of the up­com­ing amnesty to set­tle their out­stand­ing Na­tion­al In­sur­ance pay­ments.

Par­ties who have ex­pressed in­ter­est in the Mag­dale­na Grand Beach and Golf Re­sort in To­ba­go have been in­vit­ed to vis­it the ho­tel and the next step will be an eval­u­a­tion of the pro­pos­als.

Thieves sab­o­taged a WASA boost­er sta­tion at Fyz­abad on Wednes­day night, steal­ing an undis­closed quan­ti­ty of ca­bles and cut­ting off wa­ter ac­cess to over 40,000 peo­ple in the process.

It has been sev­en days since David Charles was killed at the For­res Park land­fill in Clax­ton Bay. Now, howew­er, the Sol­id Waste Man­age­ment Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (SWM­COL) is se­ri­ous­ly con­sid­er­ing new rules for sal­vagers at dump­sites.

So says the Mar­itime Fi­nan­cial Group in an ad­ver­tise­ment pub­lished in to­day’s news­pa­per, in re­sponse to Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions Roger Gas­pard’s state­ment he is re­con­sid­er­ing if to re­in­state le­gal pro­ceed­ings against those ac­cused of fraud in the con­struc­tion of the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port.

Has Gary Grif­fith re-ap­plied for the post of Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice? That is the ques­tion. How­ev­er, the an­swer is not forth­com­ing, at least not just yet.

This coun­try’s Mem­bers of Par­lia­ment cre­at­ed the In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion so it would fail, econ­o­mist and for­mer deputy Cen­tral Bank gov­er­nor Ter­rence Far­rell has said.

WASA work­ers took to the streets out­side the com­pa­ny’s head of­fice in St Joseph yes­ter­day in a pre­emp­tive ac­tion, as ru­mours cir­cu­lat­ed that some 600 work­ers were go­ing to be sent home. How­ev­er, while of­fi­cials main­tain there is no truth to the no­tion, the Pub­lic Ser­vice As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) is call­ing for a meet­ing to work on so­lu­tions to is­sues plagu­ing the com­pa­ny.