Four months af­ter Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Mar­vin Gon­za­les de­scribed the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty’s (WASA) man­age­ment as con­vo­lut­ed, in­ef­fec­tive and un­ac­count­able, there are plans in the pipeline to cut its man­age­r­i­al staff.

At 9 am on Tues­day, af­ter the coun­try cel­e­brat­ed the East­er long week­end, ANSA Bank opened its doors for the first time mak­ing it the newest en­trant to this coun­try’s fi­nan­cial sec­tor.

Xeno­pho­bia, un­em­ploy­ment, and ex­ploita­tion have forced some of the mi­grants who sought refuge in T&T to re­turn to Venezuela.

Al­most six months af­ter Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Nyan Gads­by-Dol­ly first an­nounced that a means test was be­ing de­signed to de­ter­mine which stu­dents gen­uine­ly need de­vices for on­line school­ing, the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion (MOE) is set to im­ple­ment the new sys­tem this week. The means test was de­signed in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Min­istry of So­cial De­vel­op­ment.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley yes­ter­day said that con­trary to claims by Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar he did not have any symp­toms on the Fri­day or Sat­ur­day be­fore he was di­ag­nosed with COVID-19.

A re­lief col­lec­tion dri­ve has been launched as part of this coun­try’s on­go­ing re­sponse fol­low­ing ex­plo­sive erup­tions of the La Soufrière Vol­cano in St Vin­cent and the Grenadines.

The Ch­agua­nas Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce (CCIC) plans to work close­ly with the Ch­agua­nas Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion to im­prove con­di­tions at the Ch­agua­nas Mar­ket.

The sales team from Sangeet 106.1 FM yes­ter­day em­barked on a beach clean cam­paign start­ing at Mara­cas Bay.

KINGSTOWN, St Vin­cent—The lead sci­en­tist mon­i­tor­ing the erup­tion of the La Soufriere vol­cano, Pro­fes­sor Richard Robert­son, said he ex­pects the cur­rent ex­plo­sive erup­tions to be big­ger than what oc­curred in in 1979.

The fam­i­ly of a med­ical stu­dent who died days af­ter she was ad­min­is­tered a pow­er­ful painkiller for mild fever and pain plans to ap­proach the Med­ical Board to ini­ti­ate an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to a Ca­roni doc­tor.Princess Aruna Chan­g­oor, 24, of Las Lo­mas, was in the fourth year of her stud­ies at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies and was in train­ing at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex (EWM­SC) when she died.

An­jalie Ram­goolam and her fam­i­ly went to get sup­plies at Massy Stores in Kingstown but re­turned home emp­ty hand­ed.

Al­though the In­ter­na­tion­al Mon­e­tary Fund (IMF) has pro­ject­ed eco­nom­ic growth of 2.1 per cent for T&T this year, econ­o­mist Dr Roger Ho­sein yes­ter­day warned that the econ­o­my is in dire straits. He said while he has great re­spect for the IMF’s pro­jec­tion he be­lieves the agency is be­ing over­ly op­ti­mistic about T&T’s eco­nom­ic out­look.