The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) has is­sued a Haz­ardous Seas Alert for North­ern ex­posed coast­lines, for over the next few days.

Well Ser­vices Pe­tro­le­um Com­pa­ny Ltd has of­fi­cial­ly called off the search for the re­mains of rig work­er Pe­te Phillip.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go gov­ern­ment says its main pri­or­i­ty now is to fix the in­ter-is­land fer­ry sys­tem be­tween the two is­lands, even as it ac­knowl­edged the on­go­ing ef­forts to cre­ate a re­gion­al trans­port sys­tem in­ter­con­nect­ing Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) Mem­ber States.

With Valen­tine’s Day ap­proach­ing, Arch­bish­op Ja­son Gor­don be­lieves the on­ly ros­es women should be re­ceiv­ing should be plant-based.

Savi­ta Singh cap­tured the ti­tles of Chut­ney So­ca Monarch and Queen of Chut­ney So­ca at the Grand Fi­nals held last night at Skin­ner Park, San Fer­nan­do.

For­mer com­mis­sion­er of po­lice Gary Grif­fith has at­trib­uted the se­vere traf­fic con­ges­tion in and around Ch­aguara­mas fol­low­ing the “Stink n Dut­ty” fete to a lack of lead­er­ship, plan­ning and op­er­a­tional man­age­ment, rather than fail­ures by fete pro­mot­ers or rank-and-file po­lice of­fi­cers. Grif­fith said con­cerns raised by res­i­dents and the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty were un­der­stand­able but ar­gued that many pa­trons re­port­ed see­ing few po­lice of­fi­cers sta­tioned at known bot­tle­neck ar­eas, along with an ap­par­ent ab­sence of se­nior su­per­vi­so­ry ranks di­rect­ing traf­fic dur­ing crit­i­cal pe­ri­ods.

An 18-year-old San­gre Grande man is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore a mag­is­trate to­day to an­swer three crim­i­nal charges, the most re­cent be­ing home in­va­sion, af­ter res­i­dents of Ve­ga de Oropouche cap­tured him.

Sev­er­al ma­rine and tourism-re­lat­ed busi­ness­es in Ch­aguara­mas have been forced to close dur­ing this week’s in­ten­si­fied Car­ni­val fes­tiv­i­ties, fol­low­ing the se­vere traf­fic con­ges­tion linked to the Stink and Dut­ty fete at the He­li­port in Ch­aguara­mas.

Calls are mount­ing for faster and more co­or­di­nat­ed ac­tion be­tween the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) and the Trinidad and To­ba­go Fire Ser­vice (TTFS) af­ter wa­ter is­sues ham­pered fire­fight­ers bat­tling an ear­ly-morn­ing blaze that gut­ted the Anand Low Price Su­per­mar­ket in La Ro­maine, leav­ing about 100 em­ploy­ees from the su­per­mar­ket and neigh­bour­ing Bent­ley’s VIP tem­porar­i­ly job­less.

Three months af­ter Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar launched the Re­vi­tal­i­sa­tion Blue­print, promis­ing 50,919 jobs, Works and In­fra­struc­ture Min­is­ter Jer­lean John says as­pects of the project should be­gin by mid-year.

Busi­ness cham­bers are cau­tion­ing that the de­par­ture of two of the coun­try’s largest in­dus­tri­al play­ers—ANSA McAL and Trinidad Ce­ment Ltd (TCL)—from the T&T Man­u­fac­tur­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTMA) re­flects deep­er frac­tures in na­tion­al pri­vate sec­tor rep­re­sen­ta­tion.

What­ev­er the weath­er out­look for this evening, Pan Trin­ba­go pres­i­dent Bev­er­ly Ram­sey-Moore is in­tent that “no bad breeze (can) blow” in the di­rec­tion of a resched­uled Panora­ma Medi­um Band fi­nal at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, Port-of-Spain.