Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has pledged to work with the Min­istry of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty to de­ter­mine how quick­ly re­pairs can be com­plet­ed at the Scar­bor­ough Fire Sta­tion.

Pas­sen­gers trav­el­ling through the new east ter­mi­nal at ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port say the fa­cil­i­ty has left them on cloud nine.

One cur­rent and one for­mer To­bag­on­ian sen­a­tor have ques­tioned Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s pro­pos­al to guar­an­tee To­ba­go at least two in­de­pen­dent Sen­ate seats in the Con­sti­tu­tion.

Busi­ness­woman Di­ane Hadad is look­ing for­ward to the open­ing of the $500 mil­lion Mar­riott re­sort at Rocky Point, To­ba­go, in 2029. Hadad, a for­mer head of the To­ba­go arm of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce, said the is­land could not af­ford to lose the de­vel­op­ment.

Res­i­dents across Diego Mar­tin say a sharp re­duc­tion in fund­ing to the bor­ough cor­po­ra­tion could wors­en long-stand­ing prob­lems, in­clud­ing flood­ing, blocked drains, over­grown lots and de­te­ri­o­rat­ing in­fra­struc­ture. Some al­so ac­cused the Gov­ern­ment of po­lit­i­cal­ly dis­ad­van­tag­ing the area.

For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers will rep­re­sent Trinidad and To­ba­go at a high-lev­el meet­ing be­tween the Unit­ed States and Cari­com in Wash­ing­ton to­day. Re­gion­al rep­re­sen­ta­tives are ex­pect­ed to meet US Deputy Sec­re­tary of State Christo­pher Lan­dau to dis­cuss mat­ters of mu­tu­al in­ter­est.

Busi­ness­man and en­vi­ron­men­tal­ist Gary Aboud used threats and in­tim­i­da­tion to force fi­nan­cial con­sul­tant Lawrence Mol­len­thiel to ac­cept li­a­bil­i­ty for a failed $10 mil­lion off­shore in­vest­ment, a High Court judge has found.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions have be­gun in­to mul­ti­ple re­ports of bul­ly­ing at Fyz­abad Pres­by­ter­ian School. Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath said the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion has ze­ro tol­er­ance for bul­ly­ing in schools.

The Gloster Lodge Mora­vian Pri­ma­ry School in Bel­mont re­mains closed as health and safe­ty con­cerns, in­clud­ing prob­lems with its sew­er sys­tem, con­tin­ue to af­fect the school com­mu­ni­ty.

The U.S. and oth­er wealthy na­tions need to ur­gent­ly tack­le mount­ing glob­al debt lev­els that are weigh­ing most heav­i­ly on low-in­come coun­tries and strain­ing the glob­al fi­nan­cial sys­tem, the head of the In­ter­na­tion­al Mon­e­tary Fund said Wednes­day.

Iran said Wednes­day that a car­go ship has sunk af­ter hit­ting a naval mine in the Strait of Hor­muz.

Busi­ness­man and en­vi­ron­men­tal­ist Gary Aboud has been found to have forced a fi­nan­cial con­sul­tant to ac­cept li­a­bil­i­ty for a failed $10 mil­lion off­shore in­vest­ment through threats and in­tim­i­da­tion.