Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar SC MP has ex­tend­ed con­grat­u­la­tions to new­ly sworn-in Pres­i­dent of the Unit­ed States, Joe Biden, and Vice-Pres­i­dent Ka­mala Har­ris.

The po­lit­i­cal leader of the Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), Dr. Kei­th Row­ley, says Tra­cy David­son-Ce­les­tine—leader of the PNM’s To­ba­go Coun­cil—had left the coun­try when the zi­pline project "was in its in­fan­cy."

Cari­com and Trinidad and To­ba­go are look­ing for­ward to work­ing with new US Pres­i­dent Joe Biden.

WASH­ING­TON — Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th pres­i­dent of the Unit­ed States yes­ter­day, de­clar­ing that “democ­ra­cy has pre­vailed” and sum­mon­ing Amer­i­can re­silience and uni­ty to con­front the deeply di­vid­ed na­tion’s his­toric con­flu­ence of crises.

WASH­ING­TON — Vice Pres­i­dent Ka­mala Har­ris broke the bar­ri­er that has kept men at the top ranks of Amer­i­can pow­er for more than two cen­turies when she took the oath yes­ter­day to hold the na­tion’s sec­ond-high­est of­fice.

Some sec­ondary school stu­dents are quit­ting class­es and tak­ing up jobs—and there are ma­jor chal­lenges with the re­mote learn­ing sys­tem for some pri­ma­ry school pupils par­tic­u­lar­ly.

While stu­dents in need and those fac­ing ex­ams are be­ing giv­en pri­or­i­ty for elec­tron­ic de­vices for school­work, a means test to be giv­en to oth­er stu­dents will ex­am­ine if their house­hold has de­vices or re­ceives gov­ern­ment grants.

Min­istry of Health of­fi­cials are card­ed to meet with the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion to­day to dis­cuss the is­sue of the re­open­ing schools, Chief Med­ical Of­fi­cer Dr Roshan Paras­ram said yes­ter­day.

East To­ba­go will re­ceive a ma­jor boost as the $350 mil­lion Ar­gyle Falls Re­sort and town­hous­es is ex­pect­ed to be com­plet­ed in the next two years.

Amidst the ex­pect­ed eco­nom­ic chal­lenges fac­ing T&T and the Gov­ern­ment in 2021, comes a pre­dic­tion from the US En­er­gy In­for­ma­tion Agency (EIA) that crude prices this year will av­er­age US$53 a bar­rel for Brent and US$50 a bar­rel for West Texas In­ter­me­di­ate, sig­nif­i­cant­ly high­er than was bud­get­ed by Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert.

Jo­van Ali’s par­ents at­trib­uted his strug­gle at age sev­en to tie his shoelaces and but­ton his shirts on poor mo­tor skills.

Be­fore the sun rose in El So­cor­ro yes­ter­day morn­ing, sev­er­al res­i­dents along Farouk Av­enue, Green Street and Bound­ary Road lit­er­al­ly felt the heat as a fire broke out at the near­by Chrome Fur­nish­ers.