For­mer En­er­gy Min­is­ter and Port-o- Spain North/St Ann’s West MP Stu­art Young is ac­cus­ing the Gov­ern­ment of pre­sid­ing over the col­lapse of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s en­er­gy sec­tor amid mount­ing un­cer­tain­ty over ma­jor in­dus­tri­al op­er­a­tions and job loss­es at Pro­man.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar will be in To­ba­go on Tues­day for the grand open­ing of the new air­port ter­mi­nal. The open­ing is sched­uled for 1 pm and will be at­tend­ed by sev­er­al dig­ni­taries, in­clud­ing Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine. The air­port’s open­ing has been de­scribed as a gamechang­er for To­ba­go’s tourism sec­tor, and comes less than two weeks be­fore the in­au­gur­al week­ly Toron­to-to-To­ba­go flight.

A pri­vate he­li­copter has joined the search in To­ba­go for two fish­er­men who went miss­ing on Fri­day. Rel­a­tives said David McLean, 26, of Low­lands and Buc­coo res­i­dent Kester Alexan­der left on a fish­ing ex­pe­di­tion aboard Preda­tor, a 24-foot pirogue with Yama­ha en­gines, reg­is­tra­tion TFT 2490, on Fri­day morn­ing. They were ex­pect­ed back at 5 pm the same day, but have not been seen since.

The Trinidad & To­ba­go Ag­gre­gate Pro­duc­ers Al­liance (TTA­PA) is hop­ing the wind­fall ex­pect­ed by the Gov­ern­ment from high en­er­gy prices and ex­pect­ed rev­enues from gas projects in 2027 is used well to help re­sus­ci­tate the sec­tor and stim­u­late the econ­o­my.