Con­struc­tion of the Swa­mi Sivanan­da Se­va Ashram be­gan a year ago with­out any ap­provals from the Pe­nal/ Debe Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion, the En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty, Wa­ter and Sewage Au­thor­i­ty and Trinidad Pe­tro­le­um Hold­ing Lim­it­ed, the um­brel­la com­pa­ny which re­placed Petrotrin.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) is ad­vis­ing cus­tomers served by the Val­sayn A Boost­er Sta­tion that there will be an in­ter­rup­tion in their pipe borne wa­ter sup­ply on Thurs­day be­tween the hours of 8 am and 4 pm.

A small tor­na­do has ripped the roof off a build­ing at the cor­ner of Ros­ali­no Street and Wright­son Road in Port-of-Spain.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) is ad­vis­ing cus­tomers served by the Val­sayn A Boost­er Sta­tion that there will be an in­ter­rup­tion in their pipe borne wa­ter sup­ply on Thurs­day be­tween the hours of 8 am and 4 pm.

His­to­ry will be cre­at­ed to­day when a woman is se­lect­ed to lead the Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) as the elec­tion of a new ex­ec­u­tive got un­der­way this morn­ing.

The back and forth po­lit­i­cal ban­ter re­gard­ing death threats against the Prime Min­is­ter and At­tor­ney Gen­er­al has prompt­ed a well-known po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst to call for the po­lice to clear the air on the mat­ter.

The Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) is seek­ing an in­junc­tion tem­porar­i­ly block­ing the sale of Petrotrin’s Pointe-a-Pierre re­fin­ery. 

As in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue in­to the po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing of Keone Paryag—fi­ance of Danah Al­leyne—who is the sis­ter of Crime Watch host Ian Al­leyne, po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tors claim that they are not get­ting the ex­pect­ed 100 per cent co­op­er­a­tion from those ques­tioned about what tran­spired on Fri­day.

Tabaquite MP Su­ru­jrat­tan Ram­bachan be­lieves the Min­istry of Works and Trans­port needs to re­assess its labour force as he be­lieves there is a large amount of in­ef­fi­cien­cies with­in it.

A US$72 mil­lion con­tract with De­sal­cott, that has been in place since 1999, has caused the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty to go­ing in­to bank­rupt­cy.

The plight of a Pa­lo Seco cou­ple and their two ba­bies has touched the hearts of many peo­ple through­out the coun­try.

They wear a brave face as they go out in­to what has been dubbed the “Gulf of Pi­rates”, but a clos­er look at the fish­er­men of the Or­ange Val­ley Bay re­veal a deep­er pain caused by Ju­ly’s mas­sacre out at sea which claimed the lives of sev­en of their com­rades.