Po­lit­i­cal an­a­lysts do not ex­pect that Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley’s “Trop­i­cal Trump” quipped ref­er­ence to St Lu­cia Op­po­si­tion Leader Al­lan Chas­tanet in March will im­pact T&T’s re­la­tions with Amer­i­ca’s new Don­ald Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion at this time.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine will reach out to each MP, re­quest­ing a meet­ing to dis­cuss the To­ba­go au­ton­o­my bills, which are set to re­turn to the House for de­bate soon. The let­ters will be sent out some time dur­ing this week.

WASA’s act­ing Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer, Kelvin Ro­main, is as­sur­ing that all sys­tems are in place to off­set the wa­ter short­fall, as the De­sali­na­tion Com­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go (De­sal­cott) be­gan its sev­en-day shut­down of the Point Lisas De­sali­na­tion Plant to fa­cil­i­tate main­te­nance work.

Piles of garbage across Co­corite and sur­round­ing ar­eas have be­come a ma­jor is­sue for res­i­dents and busi­ness­es in the com­mu­ni­ties.

Ar­son is sus­pect­ed in a fire at a scrap­yard in Princes Town yes­ter­day, re­sult­ing in thou­sands of dol­lars in loss­es.

Joy and pride res­onat­ed at the San Fer­nan­do TML Pri­ma­ry School as 17 top per­form­ers of the 2024 Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) ex­am­i­na­tions re­ceived spe­cial awards for out­stand­ing work.

As the largest cli­mate change con­fer­ence, COP29 (Con­fer­ence of Par­ties), kicked off yes­ter­day in Baku, Azer­bai­jan, T&T ne­go­tia­tors hope for eas­i­er ac­cess to cli­mate fi­nance and a stronger glob­al plan to mit­i­gate the im­pacts of a warm­ing world.

A pub­lic ser­vant who took the Min­istry of Labour to court af­ter she al­leged her em­ploy­ment rights had been un­fair­ly vi­o­lat­ed was yes­ter­day award­ed $150,000 in com­pen­sato­ry dam­ages.

The Na­tion­al Lot­ter­ies Con­trol Board (NL­CB) is stand­ing firm on its lat­est poli­cies for Play Whe and Lot­to agents.

Po­lice are try­ing to de­ter­mine ex­act­ly what hap­pened in Mor­vant on Sun­day night, when an al­leged at­tack­er lost his life dur­ing a re­port­ed strug­gle with the home­own­er.

Ari­ma po­lice of­fi­cers have launched a ma­jor in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the kid­nap­ping of three Venezue­lan women, who were brazen­ly snatched on Sun­day evening in full view of passers­by.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors are await­ing in­struc­tions from the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions on whether to charge a 35-year-old sus­pect in con­nec­tion with the death of Po­lice Con­sta­ble Kr­ish­na Ba­na­har.