For­mer pub­lic util­i­ties min­is­ter Mar­vin Gon­za­les has ac­cused cur­rent Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath of us­ing a re­cent state­ment on fix­ing leaks at the Point Lisas In­dus­tri­al Es­tate as a po­lit­i­cal dis­trac­tion from what Gon­za­les de­scribed as cost­ly em­ploy­ment prac­tices at the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA).

Search­es con­tin­ued yes­ter­day for 17-year-old Gabriel Nel­son, who is be­lieved to have drowned in Ma­yaro on Sun­day. The Form Five stu­dent of St Stephen’s Col­lege was pulled un­der by a rip cur­rent while bathing at Grand La­goon.

A woman who re­mained the reg­is­tered own­er of a ve­hi­cle af­ter sell­ing it has suc­cess­ful­ly de­fend­ed a law­suit aris­ing from a se­ri­ous ac­ci­dent that oc­curred years af­ter she re­lin­quished pos­ses­sion.

Well Ser­vices Pe­tro­le­um Com­pa­ny Ltd has of­fi­cial­ly called off the search for the re­mains of rig work­er Pe­te Phillip. In a state­ment re­leased yes­ter­day, the com­pa­ny said that fol­low­ing the Rig 110 in­ci­dent on De­cem­ber 22, 2024, an ex­ten­sive and high­ly co­or­di­nat­ed sal­vage and re­cov­ery op­er­a­tion by both lo­cal and for­eign ex­perts be­gan on Jan­u­ary 13, 2025, as part of Phase 2 op­er­a­tions.

Griev­ing fam­i­lies could soon face high­er cre­ma­tion costs fol­low­ing the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny’s (NGC) pro­posed 77 per cent in­crease in nat­ur­al gas prices, ac­cord­ing to pres­i­dent of the As­so­ci­a­tion of Fu­ner­al Pro­fes­sion­als of Trinidad and To­ba­go, Kei­th Bel­grove.

This year’s Miss Cen­tral Trinidad Queen Pageant, the mar­quee event on the Cou­va Car­ni­val Com­mit­tee (CCC) cal­en­dar for 2026, promis­es to be the most mem­o­rable in its his­to­ry.

Pak­istan re­versed its de­ci­sion to boy­cott the T20 World Cup game against In­dia and was di­rect­ed to “take the field” in Colom­bo next Sun­day.

Venezuela’s top pros­e­cu­tor said on Mon­day that his of­fice had re­quest­ed the ar­rest of one of the clos­est al­lies of op­po­si­tion leader María Co­ri­na Macha­do, less than 12 hours af­ter his re­lease from a de­ten­tion fa­cil­i­ty as part of a gov­ern­ment move to free those fac­ing po­lit­i­cal­ly mo­ti­vat­ed ac­cu­sa­tions.

Cuban avi­a­tion of­fi­cials have warned air­lines that there isn’t enough fu­el for air­planes to re­fu­el on the is­land, the lat­est step in its moves to ra­tion en­er­gy as the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion cuts the Caribbean na­tion off from its fu­el re­sources.

British Prime Min­is­ter Keir Starmer vowed Mon­day to fight for his job as rev­e­la­tions about the re­la­tion­ship be­tween the for­mer U.K. am­bas­sador to Wash­ing­ton and Jef­frey Ep­stein spi­ralled in­to a full-blown cri­sis for his 19-month-old gov­ern­ment.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) has is­sued a Haz­ardous Seas Alert for North­ern ex­posed coast­lines, for over the next few days.

Well Ser­vices Pe­tro­le­um Com­pa­ny Ltd has of­fi­cial­ly called off the search for the re­mains of rig work­er Pe­te Phillip.