The re­jec­tion of the To­ba­go au­ton­o­my bills in Par­lia­ment has left the is­land’s politi­cians and stake­hold­ers point­ing fin­gers, with some say­ing the bills’ re­turn to the House was noth­ing but a show.

The pos­si­bil­i­ty of Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley not con­test­ing his Diego Mar­tin West seat again sent shock­waves through the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) yes­ter­day, but not about the pos­si­bil­i­ty of Dr Amery Browne con­test­ing the Diego Mar­tin West seat in­stead. Sources ex­pressed con­cern that the Prime Min­is­ter would have left many of them blind­sided, as they thought he was go­ing to lead them in­to an­oth­er elec­tion.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley re­mains silent on his po­lit­i­cal fu­ture, opt­ing not to re­spond to ques­tions about whether he will step down as Diego Mar­tin West MP—a po­si­tion he has held since 1991—or con­test the seat in the next gen­er­al elec­tion.

There will be no self-gov­ern­ment for To­ba­go, or the ti­tle of pre­mier for To­ba­go’s Chief Sec­re­tary.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Air­line Pi­lots’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTAL­PA) says while it re­mains open to di­a­logue with Caribbean Air­lines, there is the po­ten­tial for dis­rup­tions if the cur­rent salary ne­go­ti­a­tion stale­mate per­sists.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley did not an­nounce an elec­tion date as an­tic­i­pat­ed by the Op­po­si­tion, but he did re­veal there will be Cari­com ob­servers to mon­i­tor the elec­tion when­ev­er it is called.

A 66-year-old man from San Fer­nan­do, who chopped his nephew to death over a fam­i­ly prop­er­ty dis­pute, has been re­leased af­ter spend­ing a lit­tle over 15 years in prison.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the death of Sher­ry Ann Roet, whose de­com­pos­ing body was dis­cov­ered near a fish stall close to a tem­ple in Car­li Bay, Cou­va, yes­ter­day.

Po­lice said Jawan­za Richards, 40, of Sesame Street, Pin­to Road, Ari­ma, was re­port­ed­ly gunned down at 8.15 pm.

An at­tempt­ed home in­va­sion at a farmer’s res­i­dence turned dead­ly in Tabaquite on Sun­day night when farm work­er Win­ston Lokhan was shot dead af­ter alert­ing his em­ploy­er to the dan­ger.

The Chi­nese As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (CATT) has con­firmed plans to de­mol­ish its his­toric build­ing at 7 St Ann’s Road, Port-of-Spain.

Con­sul­tant in In­ter­nal Med­i­cine, En­docrinol­o­gy and Di­a­betes, Dr Joel Teelucks­ingh, is rais­ing con­cerns about in­creased res­pi­ra­to­ry and gas­troin­testi­nal ill­ness­es, in­clud­ing coughs, colds, flu, norovirus and po­ten­tial­ly, COVID-19.