Pro­man says it will con­tin­ue sup­ply­ing car­bon diox­ide (CO₂) to Massy Gas for the fore­see­able fu­ture, fol­low­ing the shut­down of Nu­trien’s Trinidad Ni­tro­gen op­er­a­tions at Point Lisas.

For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers yes­ter­day con­firmed that au­thor­i­ties have ob­tained the co­or­di­nates of re­cent Unit­ed States mil­i­tary op­er­a­tions in the Caribbean, which ver­i­fy that the strikes oc­curred in in­ter­na­tion­al wa­ters—out­side T&T’s Ex­clu­sive Eco­nom­ic Zone (EEZ).

For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers is seekng to as­sure cit­i­zens that there was “noth­ing to fear” from the re­cent vis­it of the Unit­ed States Navy de­stroy­er USS Grave­ly to T&T.

Even as the USS Grave­ly de­part­ed T&T’s shores yes­ter­day, Sea­men and Wa­ter­front Work­ers’ Trade Union (SWW­TU) pres­i­dent gen­er­al Michael An­nisette was un­hap­py with the lack of com­mu­ni­ca­tion with his union on its vis­it here.

Min­is­ter of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Sean Sobers says the Gov­ern­ment is “un­both­ered” by pro-Venezue­lan sup­port­ers who marched in Cara­cas against Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar.

In one of his strongest ver­bal at­tacks to date against Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, Venezuela’s Jus­tice Min­is­ter Dios­da­do Ca­bel­lo has ac­cused her of align­ing her­self with the Unit­ed States’ “bel­liger­ent plans” against Venezuela.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has de­fend­ed her re­cent meet­ing with Venezuela’s Am­bas­sador to T&T, Ál­varo En­rique Sánchez Cordero, say­ing the en­gage­ment was con­duct­ed trans­par­ent­ly and with the full knowl­edge of the Min­istry of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs.

The Cuban Em­bassy has ex­pressed its grat­i­tude to the Gov­ern­ment of T&T for sup­port­ing a Unit­ed Na­tions res­o­lu­tion call­ing for an end to the decades-long Unit­ed States em­bar­go against Cu­ba.

Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials are seek­ing to clar­i­fy that the State of Emer­gency (SoE), which is ex­pect­ed to be ex­tend­ed in Par­lia­ment to­day, is un­re­lat­ed to re­cent diplo­mat­ic ten­sions be­tween T&T and Venezuela.

A num­ber of po­lice of­fi­cers across var­i­ous units and sec­tions are de­mand­ing an ur­gent ex­pla­na­tion from au­thor­i­ties, claim­ing they have not yet re­ceived their salaries for the month of Oc­to­ber.

Eight 40-foot con­tain­ers packed with re­lief sup­plies were ex­pect­ed to leave the Port of Point Lisas yes­ter­day evening for hur­ri­cane-hit Ja­maica, as Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar sent her love and sup­port to the coun­try she de­scribed as be­ing “dear to her heart.”

For­mer Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion of T&T (Ude­cott) ex­ec­u­tive chair­man Calder Hart has emerged vic­to­ri­ous in his pro­tract­ed le­gal bat­tle over ad­verse find­ings made against him by the Com­mis­sion of En­quiry (CoE) in­to the Las Al­turas Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment in Mor­vant.