Lee, who al­so serves as the Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Ca­roni Cen­tral, was re-ar­rest­ed on Tues­day, just six months af­ter fraud-re­lat­ed charges against him and busi­ness­man Hugh Leong Poi were dis­missed.

The Joint Con­sul­ta­tive Coun­cil (JCC), wish­es to ad­dress a crit­i­cal is­sue hin­der­ing our na­tion’s progress: the lim­it­ed pub­lic ac­cess to es­sen­tial da­ta gen­er­at­ed by pub­licly fund­ed agen­cies in Trinidad and To­ba­go. In­sti­tu­tions such as The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI), Uni­ver­si­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (UTT), the Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice, WASA, the Wa­ter Re­sources Agency (WRA), and the In­sti­tute of Ma­rine Af­fairs (IMA) all col­lect and/or pro­duce in-house da­ta/in­for­ma­tion vi­tal to our de­vel­op­ment, yet much of it re­mains in­ac­ces­si­ble with­out cum­ber­some ap­pli­ca­tions or cost­ly trans­ac­tions—even though cit­i­zens al­ready fund these agen­cies through tax­es.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Three West In­di­ans who im­pressed on the re­cent tour of Nepal have been re­ward­ed by be­ing named in West In­dies white ball teams to face Bangladesh lat­er this month.

Dubbed by the Na­tion­al Coun­cil of In­di­an Cul­ture (NCIC) as the largest cel­e­bra­tion of the Fes­ti­val of Lights out­side of In­dia, the an­nu­al NCIC Di­vali Na­gar will once again il­lu­mi­nate the Na­gar site in En­deav­our, Ch­agua­nas, from Sat­ur­day to Oc­to­ber 19, un­der the theme “Nine Nights of Lo­ka San­gra­ha.”

De­ci­sions on col­lec­tion, bor­row­ing, spend­ing, pro­vi­sion­ing and pro­jec­tion for the sus­tain­able de­vel­op­ment of the econ­o­my, will be the most ur­gent calls for Gov­ern­ment in Mon­day’s 2026 Bud­get.