Own­er of Ross Ad­ver­tis­ing, Ernie Ross, is rub­bish­ing al­le­ga­tions by Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley that his ad­ver­tis­ing com­pa­ny got con­tracts through State com­pa­nies which were used to hide pay­ments to Cam­bridge An­a­lyt­i­ca.

From the shad­ow of be­ing ar­rest­ed and charged with as­sault, ASP Roger Alexan­der shook off a dark era in his life to of­fi­cial­ly re­ceive the Key to the Bor­ough of Point Fortin yes­ter­day.

Na­pari­ma MP Rod­ney Charles and Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Stu­art Young yes­ter­day locked horns in a “no you” bat­tle over crime and Cam­bridge An­a­lyt­i­ca.

Strug­gling to hold back tears as she searched her mind for a rea­son as to why her broth­er had been gunned down on the week­end, the sis­ter of Justin Jee­tam is de­mand­ing jus­tice from the State.

A south Trinidad man serv­ing a 12-year sen­tence said he was told by a prison of­fi­cer not to tell his moth­er he was de­pressed and to write her “hap­py thoughts”. He was told not to show emo­tion when she died and was “blown off” by an of­fi­cer when he sought to use the prison li­brary.

The call was made yes­ter­day by both the Prison Of­fi­cers’ As­so­ci­a­tion and for­mer pris­on­ers. Their con­cerns arose at yes­ter­day’s meet­ing of Par­lia­ment’s So­cial Ser­vices and Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion com­mit­tee which fo­cused on chal­lenges faced by ex-pris­on­ers in rein­te­gra­tion in­to so­ci­ety.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley is al­leg­ing that the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) fa­cil­i­tat­ed pay­ments to Cam­bridge An­a­lyt­i­ca un­der the guise of ad­ver­tis­ing con­tracts through State com­pa­nies.

The Na­tion­al Trade Union Cen­tre (NATUC) has called on the gov­ern­ment to set­tle all out­stand­ing ne­go­ti­a­tions with­out any fur­ther de­lay.

The lo­cal agri­cul­tur­al sec­tor has been so bad­ly dec­i­mat­ed over the last sev­er­al decades that any gov­ern­ment who tries to fix it will have to con­sid­er whether or not the cost will be worth the re­turn.

While many com­pa­nies have been buck­ling un­der the pres­sure of chal­leng­ing eco­nom­ic con­di­tions, Pen­ny­wise Cos­met­ics Ltd has not on­ly been sur­viv­ing, they have been thriv­ing.

Tech­nol­o­gy is cen­tral to achiev­ing en­er­gy fu­ture and BPTT con­tin­ues to in­vest hun­dreds of mil­lions of dol­lars glob­al­ly to de­ploy the best avail­able tech­nolo­gies in its busi­ness and to con­tin­ue to use the best minds to de­liv­er en­er­gy now and in­to the fu­ture.

The new li­cense plate sys­tem, which would in­clude ra­dio fre­quen­cy iden­ti­fi­ca­tion mark­ers should be avail­able from ear­ly next year, Min­is­ter of Works and Trans­port Ro­han Sinanan has said.