Deputy Chief Sec­re­tary Dr Faith Breb­nor says To­ba­go res­i­dents will soon get ad­di­tion­al sup­port to store wa­ter as the is­land faces drought-like con­di­tions and in­creas­ing­ly dry weath­er.

Bul­ly­ing and va­p­ing re­main two of the most se­ri­ous is­sues con­fronting Trinidad and To­ba­go’s school sys­tem, Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath has said, urg­ing stu­dents to speak out against both be­hav­iours.

The amend­ed Chil­dren’s Life Fund Act has al­lowed an in­ter­na­tion­al med­ical spe­cial­ist to trav­el to Trinidad and To­ba­go to per­form a spe­cialised pro­ce­dure on a child, avoid­ing the need to send the ben­e­fi­cia­ry over­seas for treat­ment.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says Trinidad and To­ba­go must take re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for its post-In­de­pen­dence fail­ures in­stead of con­tin­u­ing to blame its colo­nial past.

The amend­ed Chil­dren’s Life Fund Act has al­lowed an in­ter­na­tion­al med­ical spe­cial­ist to trav­el to Trinidad and To­ba­go to per­form a spe­cialised pro­ce­dure on a child, avoid­ing the need to send the ben­e­fi­cia­ry over­seas for treat­ment.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice says the re­cent wave of bomb threats tar­get­ing courts, gov­ern­ment of­fices, busi­ness­es, ho­tels and diplo­mat­ic mis­sions has been as­sessed as a se­ries of hoax­es.

The T&T Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) has made good on its threat to sue Port-of-Spain South MP Kei­th Scot­land, SC, and a mem­ber of his law cham­bers, over the rep­re­sen­ta­tion they pro­vid­ed in its failed bid to re­cov­er ap­prox­i­mate­ly $2.4 mil­lion in un­paid elec­tric­i­ty charges from now-de­funct ice cream man­u­fac­tur­er Fla­vorite Foods Lim­it­ed. 

With just one day be­fore Trinidad and To­ba­go cel­e­brates its 64th In­de­pen­dence an­niver­sary, law en­force­ment agen­cies have re­vist­ed and height­ened se­cu­ri­ty mea­sures fol­low­ing an un­ver­i­fied re­port of pos­si­ble threats against em­bassies, diplo­mat­ic fa­cil­i­ties and Gov­ern­ment build­ings re­ceived late Fri­day night.

The pub­lic is be­ing re­mind­ed that the use of cam­era drones in Port-of-Spain and oth­er no-fly zones is strict­ly pro­hib­it­ed dur­ing to­mor­row’s In­de­pen­dence Day cel­e­bra­tions.

The re­vo­ca­tion of a Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO) against dance­hall artiste Joseph “Medz Boss” Oliviere has re­newed scruti­ny of the Gov­ern­ment’s use of ex­ec­u­tive de­ten­tion pow­ers and prompt­ed wider de­bate about Trinidad and To­ba­go’s an­ti-crime strat­e­gy.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Sen­a­tor Melanie Roberts-Radg­man is warn­ing about the po­ten­tial for abuse of pow­er fol­low­ing the es­tab­lish­ment of three po­lice posts in To­ba­go.

For­mer St Vin­cent and the Grenadines prime min­is­ter Dr Ralph Gon­salves paid a vis­it to Bal­isi­er House yes­ter­day, where he met with Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les and ad­dressed the par­ty’s gen­er­al coun­cil and leg­isla­tive groups.