St Lu­cia Prime Min­is­ter and Cari­com chair­man Philip J. Pierre has up­dat­ed Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar on ef­forts to seek an ad­vi­so­ry opin­ion from the Caribbean Court of Jus­tice (CCJ) over the ap­point­ment of Cari­com Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al Dr Car­la Bar­nett.

Po­lice are con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the mur­der of 30-year-old moth­er of one Shan­nel Lewis, of Bridge Road, Brook­lyn Set­tle­ment, San­gre Grande.

Tu­na­puna/Pi­ar­co Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion (TPRC) chair­man Josi­ah Austin should now put to rest his chal­lenge against the po­lice post at the Ed­die Hart Recre­ation Ground n Tacarigua, Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Khadi­jah Ameen said yes­ter­day.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine says the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly has ze­ro ob­jec­tions to po­lice posts across T&T.

The Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) has stepped up pres­sure on the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) over stalled ne­go­ti­a­tions for new salaries, back­pay and oth­er costs as­so­ci­at­ed with work­ers’ terms and con­di­tions of em­ploy­ment.

Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Khadi­jah Ameen has blamed cor­rupt prac­tices by some pub­lic ser­vants, cou­pled with in­dis­crim­i­nate dump­ing and un­reg­u­lat­ed de­vel­op­ment, for con­tribut­ing to flood­ing in ar­eas with­in the Cou­va/Tabaquite/Tal­paro Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion (CT­TRC) on Wednes­day.

Sev­en men have been placed un­der Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders un­der the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions, with au­thor­i­ties link­ing them to sev­er­al or­gan­ised crime groups.

Pro­duc­ers say ris­ing de­mand, cost­ly im­ports and poor chick qual­i­ty threat­en food se­cu­ri­ty

Trinidad and To­ba­go Farm­ers’ Union pres­i­dent Shi­raz Khan has warned that the cur­rent chick­en short­age could re­cur with­in the next six to 12 months if Gov­ern­ment and stake­hold­ers fail to ad­dress long­stand­ing is­sues in the poul­try sec­tor.

Fire­works will re­turn to the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah for this year’s In­de­pen­dence Day cel­e­bra­tions, with Gov­ern­ment plan­ning a mix of tra­di­tion­al and low-noise fire­works, along­side a drone dis­play and cul­tur­al show­case.

Exxon­Mo­bil has praised the speed at which it was able to se­cure ap­provals to be­gin seis­mic ac­tiv­i­ties in Trinidad and To­ba­go, with the en­er­gy gi­ant now ex­press­ing op­ti­mism that its on­go­ing tech­ni­cal work could even­tu­al­ly lead to a hy­dro­car­bon dis­cov­ery.

The new ter­mi­nal at the ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port in To­ba­go is ex­pect­ed to open be­fore Oc­to­ber.