The alarm bells are ring­ing. They’ve been ring­ing for some time now, but the clos­er we get to a wa­ter cri­sis, the loud­er it sounds. The wa­ter is­sues in Trinidad and To­ba­go have tran­scend­ed ad­min­is­tra­tions.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) chair­man Mar­vin Gon­za­les is de­mand­ing an­swers from the Gov­ern­ment over the re­port­ed ab­sence of Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro from Trinidad and To­ba­go, ques­tion­ing whether an act­ing com­mis­sion­er has been ap­point­ed.

Trinidad and To­ba­go could gain a fresh life­line for its en­er­gy sec­tor as new Venezue­lan gas li­cences open the pos­si­bil­i­ty of ac­cess­ing sup­plies from the Lo­ran field and oth­er re­gion­al de­vel­op­ments.

A ban­dit, pos­ing as a pas­sen­ger, shot a 48-year-old taxi dri­ver in the shoul­der dur­ing a rob­bery at Chase Vil­lage, Ch­agua­nas, on Fri­day night.

Prison of­fi­cers yes­ter­day seized two car­tons of cig­a­rettes, a quan­ti­ty of mar­i­jua­na, a cell­phone and de­tained two pris­on­ers af­ter the items were thrown over the walls of the Port-of-Spain Prison.

Res­i­dents of St Au­gus­tine are get­ting di­rect ac­cess to gov­ern­ment agen­cies as MP for the area, Khadi­jah Ameen, con­tin­ues a se­ries of com­mu­ni­ty out­reach pro­grammes aimed at bring­ing pub­lic ser­vices clos­er to cit­i­zens.

A spike in gun vi­o­lence in Siparia has prompt­ed more than sev­en com­mu­ni­ty groups to join forces with the po­lice in a peace walk through the com­mu­ni­ty, with po­lice de­clar­ing Siparia and sur­round­ing ar­eas a “no crime zone”.

Two men who were car­ry­ing large sums of mon­ey to pay work­ers at con­struc­tion sites were robbed in two sep­a­rate in­ci­dents on Fri­day.

Prison of­fi­cers on Sat­ur­day morn­ing seized two car­tons of cig­a­rettes, a quan­ti­ty of mar­i­jua­na and a cell­phone and de­tained two pris­on­ers af­ter the items were thrown over the walls of the Port of Spain Prison.

Heat Wave edged Jus­ti­fied in an ex­cit­ing fin­ish on Sat­ur­day to claim the ac­co­lade of first boat to To­ba­go in the an­nu­al in­ter­is­land Great Race.

Nine peo­ple, in­clud­ing a po­lice of­fi­cer and a fire of­fi­cer, were ar­rest­ed for dri­ving un­der the in­flu­ence dur­ing a po­lice ex­er­cise in Port of Spain ear­ly Sat­ur­day morn­ing.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal yes­ter­day con­firmed that Gov­ern­ment has agreed to the con­struc­tion of a da­ta cen­tre in Gol­con­da, south Trinidad. Mooni­lal said suit­able land has been iden­ti­fied in the area to build the fa­cil­i­ty with­in the Debe Spe­cial Eco­nom­ic Zone, lo­cat­ed off the M2 Ring Road.