On her first day in of­fice, Min­is­ter of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment, Khadi­jah Ameen, con­vened a se­ries of meet­ings with per­ma­nent sec­re­taries and heads of de­part­ment to ad­dress na­tion­al dis­as­ter pre­pared­ness ahead of the rainy sea­son.

For­mer West In­dies fast-bowler, Ravi Ram­paul, will be the bowl­ing coach for the re­gion­al side’s up­com­ing tours of Ire­land and Eng­land.

New­ly ap­point­ed Plan­ning Min­is­ter Kennedy Swarats­ingh be­gan his du­ties on May 5 by meet­ing se­nior staff at the Min­istry of Plan­ning, Eco­nom­ic Af­fairs and De­vel­op­ment.

A 24-year-old man re­mains hos­pi­talised af­ter he was stabbed sev­er­al times dur­ing a vi­o­lent al­ter­ca­tion at Roy­al Bar, Guapo Cap-de-Ville Main Road, Point Fortin, around 10 am on Sat­ur­day.

New Min­is­ter of Fi­nance, Dave Tan­coo, re­ceived ver­bal brief­in­gs from the ex­ec­u­tive team on his first day in of­fice.

New­ly ap­point­ed Min­is­ter of Hous­ing and Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment, Dr David Lee, has ac­knowl­edged the over­whelm­ing de­mand for hous­ing, as he set­tled in­to his first day in of­fice, stat­ing that the vol­ume of re­quests al­ready re­ceived is out­pac­ing cur­rent ca­pac­i­ty.

Over the com­ing weeks, Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) will in­tro­duce wire­less in-flight en­ter­tain­ment to its ATR fleet. The air­line’s sole Boe­ing 737-800 NG which cur­rent­ly op­er­ates be­tween Kingston, Ja­maica and Flori­da will al­so re­ceive the up­grade. Con­tent will be de­liv­ered via the Caribbean View in­ter­face and will of­fer movies, TV pro­grammes, mu­sic, games, and a mov­ing map. As with the econ­o­my cab­in of the 737-8 fleet, pas­sen­gers will need to use their own de­vices to ac­cess con­tent. The sys­tem will not of­fer ex­ter­nal in­ter­net ac­cess.

Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots (PDP) leader Wat­son Duke says he will not stop fight­ing for To­ba­go, de­spite his par­ty’s fail­ure to se­cure a seat in last Mon­day’s gen­er­al elec­tion.

Min­is­ter of De­fense Wayne Sturge, and Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der, ar­rived for their first day of work at Tem­ple Court, Aber­crom­by Street, to­day.

The Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion says it is go­ing to pay im­mi­grants in the Unit­ed States il­le­gal­ly who’ve re­turned to their home coun­try vol­un­tar­i­ly $1,000 as it push­es for­ward with its mass de­por­ta­tion agen­da.

A 37-year-old La Hor­quet­ta man is this coun­try's lat­est mur­der vic­tim, af­ter he was gunned down while dri­ving his car on Sun­day night.

The PNM To­ba­go Coun­cil has launched a se­ries of com­mu­ni­ty meet­ings across the is­land as part of its ef­fort to re­build the par­ty fol­low­ing its loss in the April 28 Gen­er­al Elec­tion.