KEVON FELMINE
kevon.felmine@guardian.co.tt

In his re­turn to Par­lia­ment as a tem­po­rary Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor, for­mer Min­is­ter of Ed­u­ca­tion Dr Tim Gopeesingh lam­bast­ed the Gov­ern­ment’s han­dling of COVID-19, call­ing for the res­ig­na­tion or ter­mi­na­tion of Min­is­ter of Health Ter­rence Deyals­ingh.
Gopeesingh, who re­tired from ac­tive pol­i­tics in 2020, re­placed an ill Dami­an Ly­der.

Po­lice are con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the ex­plo­sion at the Parkade in, Port-of-Spain, on Mon­day.

The same peo­ple who cry that they can’t pay prop­er­ty tax or don’t have mon­ey, will be “jump­ing around” or spend­ing if it’s an­nounced Car­ni­val 2022 will be held, or if Di­vali Na­gar is on, says In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tor Hazel Thomp­son-Ahye.

Life­sav­ing and oth­er crit­i­cal med­ica­tion to treat se­vere ail­ments in chil­dren and adults, in­clud­ing se­vere­ly ill COVID-19 pa­tients, are ei­ther un­avail­able or in short sup­ply in the coun­try.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty’s trans­for­ma­tion plan is com­plete and as it goes for­ward, Gov­ern­ment in­tends com­ply­ing with its re­spon­si­bil­i­ties in work­ers’ col­lec­tive bar­gain­ing agree­ments.

The Sen­ate had to sus­pend for 10 min­utes yes­ter­day, af­ter the ceil­ing of the Sen­ate’s south­ern cham­ber sprung a leak with the heavy rains.

The Speak­er of the House yes­ter­day pro­vid­ed the guide­lines for Thurs­day’s his­tor­i­cal mo­tion to re­move sit­ting Pres­i­dent Paula-Mae Weekes.

As Gov­ern­ment seeks more rev­enue dur­ing this eco­nom­i­cal­ly chal­leng­ing pan­dem­ic, one area of high ex­pen­di­ture is lit­i­ga­tion against the mea­sures it im­ple­ment­ed to fight COVID-19.

On­line class­es for un­vac­ci­nat­ed stu­dents of Forms Four, Five and Six have been ter­mi­nat­ed at the Bar­rack­pore West Sec­ondary School, trig­ger­ing protests by par­ents on Tues­day.

While many parts of the coun­try re­main with­out pipe-borne wa­ter, mil­lions of gal­lons of wa­ter con­tin­ue to waste at Jaipaul Street in Ste Madeleine.

PC An­tho­ny Sylvester was dis­charged by High Court Judge Hay­den St Clair-Dou­glas at the end of his judge-alone tri­al, yes­ter­day af­ter­noon. 

A 30-year-old truck dri­ver from Rio Claro was grant­ed bail in the sum of $12,000, or a cash al­ter­na­tive of $3,000, when he ap­peared be­fore act­ing Se­nior Mag­is­trate Ava Van­den­burg-Bai­ley at the Ma­yaro Mag­is­trates’ Court Mon­day.