The Unit­ed States Em­bassy in Trinidad and To­ba­go says all de­ci­sions about visas rest sole­ly with the Unit­ed States gov­ern­ment and not with any for­eign au­thor­i­ty.

At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie is one of three par­lia­men­tar­i­ans re­ferred to the Priv­i­leges Com­mit­tee, which House Speak­er Jagdeo Singh is ex­pect­ed to rule on.

Au­dits and in­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing in­to the Un­em­ploy­ment Re­lief Pro­gramme (URP), where 928 peo­ple were ter­mi­nat­ed.

Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Port-of-Spain North/St Ann’s West Stu­art Young SC says arm­ing home­own­ers is not the be-all and end-all to ad­dress­ing home in­va­sions.

The Ed­u­ca­tion Min­istry’s dis­tri­b­u­tion of lap­tops to schools is sched­uled to com­mence to­day, and to date, 19,914 book grants have been suc­cess­ful­ly dis­trib­uted to el­i­gi­ble ap­pli­cants, ac­cord­ing to Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath yes­ter­day.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal ex­pects to re­ceive the re­port on restart­ing the Guaracara re­fin­ery with­in the com­ing days, as plans move for­ward to re­open the fa­cil­i­ty, which has been closed for sev­en years.

The “ten per cent” wage ne­go­ti­a­tions be­tween the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) and the Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer (CPO) will com­mence to­day at 11 am.

A re­tired po­lice of­fi­cer has won his law­suit over a move by the Of­fice of the Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er to re­clas­si­fy his ex­tend­ed in­jury leave af­ter his re­tire­ment in 2022. 

A man who was ac­quit­ted of rap­ing a fe­male com­pan­ion but con­vict­ed of phys­i­cal­ly as­sault­ing her has been sen­tenced to 12 months in prison.

One of this coun­try’s old­est (since 1968) and top medi­um steel­bands, Val­ley Harps Steel Or­ches­tra, is on a mis­sion to achieve three key goals be­fore Panora­ma 2026, the most ur­gent be­ing se­cur­ing fund­ing to com­pete in the com­pe­ti­tion. The or­ches­tra’s oth­er goals in­clude invit­ing the com­mu­ni­ty back in­to the pa­n­yard and re­cruit­ing new play­ers.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal says the re­cent high-lev­el vis­it by US Chair­man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen­er­al Dan Caine, is a pos­i­tive move for T&T. Re­spond­ing to crit­i­cism by the Op­po­si­tion over the lack of trans­paren­cy and tim­ing of his vis­it, amidst es­ca­lat­ing ten­sions with Venezuela, Mooni­lal said he did not want to speak “too much” on that mat­ter, as the specifics lay with the Prime Min­is­ter and the min­is­ters with re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for law en­force­ment.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar will at­tend to­day’s fu­ner­al ser­vice for mur­dered Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) coun­cil­lor Romona Vic­tor at Ir­win Park Sport­ing Com­plex in Siparia.