There is no need for politi­cians to get in­volved in en­er­gy ne­go­ti­a­tions. That re­spon­si­bil­i­ty falls in the hands of tech­nocrats.

Tran­sient work­ers were ex­empt­ed from mak­ing Na­tion­al In­sur­ance (NIS) pay­ments which would have grant­ed them ac­cess to sig­nif­i­cant ben­e­fits in­clud­ing ma­ter­ni­ty ben­e­fits since NIS’ fund is al­ready un­der pres­sure—and a lot of Venezue­lan mi­grants are preg­nant.

A lo­cal gov­ern­ment rep­re­sen­ta­tive yes­ter­day called on stake­hold­ers to band to­geth­er and de­mand the com­ple­tion of all schools.

The long-an­tic­i­pat­ed pro­posed leg­is­la­tion to re­form lo­cal gov­ern­ment will be up for de­bate when Par­lia­ment re­sumes next week on Wednes­day.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the death of an 11-year-old girl, who was dis­cov­ered dead in her room at her home in Arou­ca on Mon­day.

Over 500 seedlings will be re­plant­ed in Ch­aguara­mas on Thurs­day, to help re­store forest­ed ar­eas that were de­stroyed by re­cent bush fires.

The Na­tion­al In­fra­struc­ture De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (NID­CO) says the date of ar­rival for the new fast fer­ry, HSC Jean de la Valette, is to­mor­row - Wednes­day 19th June, 2019, good weath­er per­mit­ting.

Ac­cord­ing to pre­lim­i­nary re­ports at about 2.45pm the woman was walk­ing along San­ta Bar­bara Boule­vard, San­ta Cruz when a white wag­on pulled up along­side her and gun­men with ri­fles opened fire.

Sanatan Dhar­ma Ma­ha Sab­ha (SDMS) sec­re­tary gen­er­al Sat­narayan Ma­haraj has been asked to re­con­sid­er his ap­pli­ca­tion for an in­junc­tion seek­ing to bar the Of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) from in­sti­tut­ing sedi­tion charges against him pend­ing the de­ter­mi­na­tion of his nov­el con­sti­tu­tion­al chal­lenge against this coun­try’s colo­nial-age sedi­tion leg­is­la­tion.

Chief sec­re­tary of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) Kelvin Charles is as­sur­ing To­ba­go res­i­dents af­fect­ed by the con­struc­tion of a new ter­mi­nal build­ing and as­so­ci­at­ed works at the ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port that the THA will pro­vide sup­port to en­sure the smoothest pos­si­ble tran­si­tion.

The Move­ment for So­cial Jus­tice (MSJ) says it will con­test all 114 elec­toral dis­tricts in the up­com­ing Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Elec­tions and 41 con­stituen­cies in next year’s Gen­er­al Elec­tion as it seeks to over­throw the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM).

About 20 life­guards from Mara­cas Bay and Las Cuevas gath­ered out­side the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty head­quar­ters on Aber­crom­by Street in Port-of-Spain seek­ing an ur­gent meet­ing with the Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Stu­art Young over grave se­cu­ri­ty con­cerns fol­low­ing an as­sault of two life­guards on Sun­day.