En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal says he has tak­en note of Guyana Vice Pres­i­dent Dr Bhar­rat Jagdeo’s state­ment that his coun­try does not have gas to sup­ply to any­one, but that he is will­ing to meet with the T&T Gov­ern­ment on pos­si­ble fu­ture arrange­ments.

More de­sali­na­tion plants and wells are need­ed to ser­vice re­mote com­mu­ni­ties, says Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Util­i­ties Bar­ry Padarath.

Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent Fe­l­isha Thomas says the union is not be­ing le­nient with the new Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress-led Gov­ern­ment, but is giv­ing them time to set­tle in be­fore mak­ing good on its promise of a wage in­crease of 10 per cent.

Hymns echoed through the streets of Siparia yes­ter­day, as thou­sands gath­ered to ob­serve the Feast Day of La Div­ina Pas­to­ra, one of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s old­est re­li­gious tra­di­tions.

For­mer Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) sen­a­tor Jayan­ti Lutch­me­di­al-Ram­di­al has called for struc­tur­al sup­port for moth­ers, say­ing the coun­try must move be­yond sym­bol­ic cel­e­bra­tions and im­ple­ment poli­cies which sup­port moth­ers.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the death of Isi­ah Sorzano, al­so known as Pablo, who was found with gun­shot wounds in Pe­nal yes­ter­day.

Many men of­ten make a pact with the dev­il in ex­change for rich­es and suc­cess but Ju­nior Ben­jamin made a promise to serve the Lord faith­ful­ly if He helped him to over­come the ma­jor hur­dles he faced as a child and which fol­lowed him in­to adult­hood to the post he cur­rent­ly oc­cu­pies as the act­ing head of the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS).

Po­lice re­port­ed that Is­rael Ass­ing, of Sa­van­nah Dri­ve, Pin­to Road, was found mur­dered at 11.20 pm. His body was found at an in­com­plete house be­tween Hoyte Av­enue and First Av­enue, Pin­to.

Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der will meet with act­ing Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Ju­nior Ben­jamin to­day, af­ter promis­ing to do all he can to en­sure the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has the re­sources it needs to tack­le crime.

An­tigua and Bar­bu­da Prime Min­is­ter Gas­ton Browne says he has no is­sue with the new Min­is­ter of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Sean Sobers.

Al­though Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) gen­er­al sec­re­tary Fos­ter Cum­mings is un­moved by calls for his res­ig­na­tion fol­low­ing the par­ty’s April 28 Gen­er­al Elec­tion de­feat, there are mixed views on whether he should be in the par­ty’s ex­ec­u­tive.

For­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) of­fi­cial Robert Le Hunte says Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ny Beck­les will have his full sup­port if she puts her­self up for par­ty leader, as he ex­pects she will, and he’s open, af­ter dis­cus­sion with her and oth­er lead­er­ship of­fi­cials, to help re­build the par­ty.