As sev­er­al state agen­cies—in­clud­ing the Na­tion­al Lot­ter­ies Con­trol Board (NL­CB), Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TSTT), First Cit­i­zens Bank (FCB) and Na­tion­al Flour Mills (NFM)—with­draw their spon­sor­ship of Di­vali Na­gar, Blue Wa­ters has in­creased its fi­nan­cial com­mit­ment to the an­nu­al cul­tur­al fes­ti­val, be­com­ing an of­fi­cial Di­a­mond spon­sor for its 40th an­niver­sary.

One year af­ter the Gov­ern­ment de­clared both White­hall and the Prime Min­is­ter’s of­fi­cial res­i­dence in St Ann’s to be in poor con­di­tion to ac­com­mo­date Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar in the con­duct of her na­tion­al du­ties, plans are now ad­vanc­ing to re­lo­cate key func­tions of the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter (OPM) from White­hall.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar yes­ter­day wel­comed her son, Kris Shi­va Bisses­sar, to the le­gal pro­fes­sion, af­ter he grad­u­at­ed with a law de­gree from the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies.

Just one week af­ter its of­fi­cial open­ing, the Good­wood mi­cro polic­ing unit has been closed due to in­fra­struc­ture con­cerns, in­clud­ing soil ero­sion af­fect­ing its foun­da­tion.