A 25-year-old man from Wa­ter­hole, Co­corite, has been ar­rest­ed and charged in con­nec­tion with a re­port of rob­bery with vi­o­lence in the West­ern Di­vi­sion that oc­curred last year.

Trinidad and To­ba­go's pre­mier busi­ness groups say they are ready to work with En­er­gy Min­is­ter Stu­art Young af­ter MPs of the rul­ing Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) chose him to be the next Prime Min­is­ter.

For­mer West In­dies cap­tain Sir Clive Lloyd is not hap­py with the sug­ges­tion made by for­mer In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Coun­cil (ICC) chair­man Greg Bar­clay that the West In­dies be dis­band­ed and play as in­di­vid­ual coun­tries.

Dr Kei­th Row­ley’s pend­ing re­tire­ment from ac­tive pol­i­tics at this crit­i­cal time in T&T’s de­vel­op­ment is an op­por­tu­ni­ty for sig­nif­i­cant lead­er­ship trans­for­ma­tion, not on­ly in the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) but in the po­lit­i­cal cul­ture of this na­tion.