Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Hous­ing Phillip Ed­ward Alexan­der has de­clared his full sup­port for Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, a day af­ter she rep­ri­mand­ed him over con­tro­ver­sial re­marks about Venezuela.

Two dis­tin­guished pro­fes­sors and the late for­mer To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly Chief Sec­re­tary are set to re­ceive the Or­der of the Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go (ORTT), the na­tion’s high­est award, at to­day’s Na­tion­al Awards Cer­e­mo­ny.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has rep­ri­mand­ed Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Hous­ing Phillip Alexan­der over con­tro­ver­sial re­marks about Venezuela, say­ing he is “cer­tain­ly out of line”.

• Fazal Karim, posthu­mous­ly, for­mer Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Ch­agua­nas East Con­stituen­cy, and for­mer Sen­a­tor and Min­is­ter of Ter­tiary Ed­u­ca­tion and Skills Train­ing, Ed­u­ca­tion

This Re­pub­lic Day, vet­er­an CNC3 video­jour­nal­ist Ivan Toolsie will be ho­n­oured with the Cha­co­nia Sil­ver Medal by Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo—a fit­ting trib­ute to a man who has spent his life be­hind the lens, cap­tur­ing the sto­ries of T&T.

The Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers (TKR) are set to re­ceive this coun­try’s sec­ond-high­est ho­n­our, the Cha­co­nia Medal gold, at to­day’s an­nu­al Na­tion­al Awards Cer­e­mo­ny at Pres­i­dent’s House.

On the 49th an­niver­sary of Re­pub­lic Day, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar called for ur­gent re­forms to strength­en T&T’s democ­ra­cy, not­ing that the foun­da­tions of the Re­pub­lic re­main flawed.

The Move­ment for So­cial Jus­tice (MSJ) said too many cit­i­zens are strug­gling, even as T&T marks 49 years as a Re­pub­lic.

For­mer min­is­ter of na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty and works and trans­port Jack Warn­er says now that the ex­tra­di­tion re­quest against him by the Unit­ed States (US) has been per­ma­nent­ly blocked, he wants to re­turn to serv­ing the pub­lic.

The T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has bro­ken its si­lence, de­fend­ing Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der against on­go­ing al­le­ga­tions that his meet­ing with al­leged gang leader Ra­jaee Ali ear­li­er this year was un­sanc­tioned.

Dra­ma erupt­ed at City Hall yes­ter­day as dai­ly-paid work­ers stormed the San Fer­nan­do City Cor­po­ra­tion (SFCC), de­mand­ing over­due salaries, say­ing fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tions have been press­ing them for pay­ments.

Con­gress of the Peo­ple (COP) leader Prakash Ra­mad­har has raised con­cerns about the state of the Oc­cu­pa­tion­al Safe­ty and Health Au­thor­i­ty (OS­HA), ques­tion­ing whether the in­sti­tu­tion has been com­pro­mised and call­ing for a thor­ough in­ves­ti­ga­tion.