A 44-year-old woman is re­cov­er­ing from mi­nor leg in­juries and grap­pling with the trau­ma of los­ing her home, af­ter a land­slide sent de­bris crash­ing down on­to her house at East­ern Quar­ry, Laven­tille, de­stroy­ing it.

Al­though Trinidad and To­ba­go has been down­grad­ed to a Green Lev­el weath­er alert, sev­er­al parts of the coun­try con­tin­ue to grap­ple with lin­ger­ing flood­wa­ters fol­low­ing per­sis­tent show­ery ac­tiv­i­ty over the week­end.

While last week­end’s down­pours brought flood­ing to some parts of South Trinidad, many com­mu­ni­ties were spared the dev­as­ta­tion of murky wa­ters in­vad­ing their homes. Still, soaked roads and swollen wet­lands served as a sober­ing re­minder of what po­ten­tial­ly lies ahead as the wet sea­son sets in.

As the Wet Sea­son com­mences, some busi­ness cham­bers say they are will­ing to give the new Gov­ern­ment a grace pe­ri­od on the is­sue of flood­ing. How­ev­er, they have some sug­ges­tions in hand to mit­i­gate the im­pact of flood­ing, which they are will­ing to share with the new ad­min­is­tra­tion.

June 2 is nom­i­na­tion day for can­di­dates in the Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment's (PNM) June 29 in­ter­nal elec­tion.

The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) South Cam­pus in Pe­nal-Debe will of­fi­cial­ly open for aca­d­e­m­ic pro­grammes in Au­gust 2025, near­ly a decade af­ter its sched­uled com­ple­tion.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) has de­clared the start of the 2025 Wet Sea­son, af­ter record­ing rain­fall in­di­rect­ly as­so­ci­at­ed with the In­ter-Trop­i­cal Con­ver­gence Zone (ITCZ) that af­fect­ed the coun­try over the week­end.

Min­is­ter of Plan­ning, Eco­nom­ic Af­fairs and De­vel­op­ment, Kennedy Swarats­ingh, says there are plans to in­te­grate cli­mate risk in­to the coun­try’s na­tion­al and eco­nom­ic de­vel­op­ment plans. It comes as cli­mate ex­perts yes­ter­day called on of­fi­cials to fo­cus their ef­forts on plans to mit­i­gate the im­pacts of flood­ing.

Re­gion­al se­cu­ri­ty con­sul­tant Garvin Heer­ah says there is an ur­gent need for a co­or­di­nat­ed Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty strat­e­gy on how to ad­dress con­cerns of de­por­tees from the US.

For­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) gen­er­al sec­re­tary Ash­ton Ford says mem­bers are con­cerned about the “rushed” June 29 elec­tion con­ven­tion. He is al­so call­ing on the cur­rent lead­er­ship to re­con­sid­er the ex­clu­sion of par­ty groups’ par­tic­i­pa­tion in the process.

As most Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) cus­tomers have breathed a sigh of re­lief over the Gov­ern­ment’s promise not to in­crease elec­tric­i­ty rates, for­mer Pub­lic Util­i­ties min­is­ter Mar­vin Gon­za­les says the cur­rent sta­tus quo is not sus­tain­able.

The wid­ow of five-time Ca­lyp­so Monarch Leroy “Black Stal­in” Cal­liste is seek­ing to over­turn a de­fault judg­ment of over $300,000 ob­tained against her by a pho­to­jour­nal­ist for the unau­tho­rised use of a pho­to­graph of her late hus­band.