Na­tion­al Trans­for­ma­tion Al­liance leader Gary Grif­fith has de­clined com­ment on UNC leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s call for uni­ty of small­er par­ties with the UNC.

Act­ing Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher met with the Trinidad and To­ba­go Pro­mot­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTPA) when they held a me­dia con­fer­ence to ex­press con­cern about fees be­ing charged to pro­vide se­cu­ri­ty at fetes and oth­er events.

The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion is promis­ing in­ter­ven­tion to 106 schools in the form of ad­di­tion­al stu­dent ser­vices, se­cu­ri­ty, aca­d­e­m­ic sup­port and in­fra­struc­tur­al re­pairs as it ex­pands its re­me­di­a­tion pro­gramme ti­tled “Re-en­gag­ing for Suc­cess.”

The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion will meet with stake­hold­ers once again this week to con­tin­ue dis­cus­sions on the Teach­ing Ser­vice Com­mis­sion’s pro­pos­al that it hire teach­ers for de­nom­i­na­tion­al pri­ma­ry schools.

The Trin­ba­go Uni­fied Ca­lyp­so­ni­ans’ Or­gan­i­sa­tion (TU­CO) has de­nied al­le­ga­tions of cen­sor­ship made by La­dy Gyp­sy (Lynette Steele). The vet­er­an ca­lyp­son­ian claimed she was barred from singing her com­po­si­tion, Po­lit­i­cal Ceme­tery, which is crit­i­cal of the PNM.

For decades, Pro­fes­sor Emer­i­tus at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies St Au­gus­tine cam­pus, Gor­don Rohlehr played a lead­ing role in ad­vanc­ing Caribbean lit­er­a­ture, ca­lyp­so and cul­ture.

Act­ing Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Er­la Christo­pher's name has been sub­mit­ted to Par­lia­ment for de­bate for the po­si­tion of Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er, af­ter the Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PolSC) de­liv­ered the mer­it list for the po­si­tion to the Of­fice of the Pres­i­dent yes­ter­day..

Act­ing Min­is­ter of For­eign and CARI­COM Af­fairs, Paula Gopee-Scoon has par­tic­i­pat­ed in a re­cep­tion host­ed by Ra­ju Shar­ma, Chargé d’Af­faires of the High Com­mis­sion of In­dia, on the oc­ca­sion of the cel­e­bra­tion of the 74th An­niver­sary of the Re­pub­lic Day of the Re­pub­lic of In­dia.

Min­is­ter of For­eign and CARI­COM Af­fairs Dr Amery Browne, re­ceived a farewell cour­tesy call from His Ex­cel­len­cy Sán­dor Marnix Raphaël Var­ga Van Kibéd En Mak­fal­va, out­go­ing Am­bas­sador of the King­dom of the Nether­lands to Trinidad and To­ba­go on Jan­u­ary 27.

The po­lice of­fi­cer caught on cam­era in­volved in an al­ter­ca­tion with a traf­fic war­den, has been sus­pend­ed. The act­ing Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Er­la Christo­pher made this de­ci­sion pend­ing the out­come of the in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the in­ci­dent.

Min­is­ter of Trade and In­dus­try and Act­ing Min­is­ter of For­eign and CARI­COM Af­fairs Paula Gopee-Scoon has tak­en greet­ings on be­half of the Gov­ern­ment to the Gov­ern­ment of Aus­tralia in recog­ni­tion of Aus­tralia Day.

The man­age­ment of the Trinidad and To­ba­go In­ter-Is­land Trans­porta­tion Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (TTIT) has ad­vised that the Buc­coo Reef ves­sel ex­pe­ri­enced me­chan­i­cal is­sues dur­ing its sail­ing to Scar­bor­ough to­day, and re­turned to its berth to un­der­take re­pair works.