The gov­ern­ment re­mains com­mit­ted to trans­form­ing the wa­ter de­liv­ery ser­vice. This was un­der­scored by Clyde El­der, Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Pub­lic Util­i­ties, as he de­liv­ered the fea­ture ad­dress at WASA’s 60th an­niver­sary cel­e­bra­tions at the Au­thor­i­ty’s com­plex in Low­lands, To­ba­go, on Wednes­day.

Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe has an­nounced that the in­de­pen­dent ex­pert pan­el re­view­ing the death of six-year-old Jash­er Fran­cois has been grant­ed a one-week ex­ten­sion to com­plete its re­port.

The All To­ba­go Fish­er­folk As­so­ci­a­tion (AT­FA) is urg­ing the au­thor­i­ties to ad­dress the grow­ing pres­ence of Venezue­lans op­er­at­ing in To­ba­go’s ter­ri­to­r­i­al wa­ters.

Af­ter months of cus­tomer frus­tra­tion and spec­u­la­tion, Trin­ba­go Ex­press founder and CEO Pamela Lind­say has ad­dressed cus­tomers’ con­cerns, out­lin­ing the se­ries of events that led to wide­spread car­go de­lays and pledg­ing swift res­o­lu­tion and per­son­al ac­count­abil­i­ty.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der signed de­ten­tion and pre­ven­ta­tive de­ten­tion or­ders un­der the State of Emer­gency for 19 peo­ple be­tween Ju­ly 31 and Au­gust 15, in­clud­ing a sec­ond girl­friend of a gang leader cur­rent­ly in cus­tody of the De­fence Force at Ch­aguara­mas. The or­ders were on­ly gazetted on Tues­day night.

A Laven­tille-based con­tract­ing com­pa­ny will have a long wait for the Court of Ap­peal to weigh in on con­tentious lit­i­ga­tion over a move by the Gov­ern­ment to ter­mi­nate over 300 Com­mu­ni­ty-based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme Com­pa­ny (CEPEP) con­trac­tors, in­clud­ing it­self.

A night dri­ve end­ed in tragedy af­ter 19-year-old Kav­ish Per­sad col­lid­ed with a car on the Beetham High­way, Laven­tille, on Tues­day night.

De­spite hav­ing good in­ten­tions, a Cen­tral busi­ness­man was at­tacked and robbed by ban­dits as he stopped to ren­der aid at the site of a fa­tal Beetham High­way car ac­ci­dent which re­sult­ed in the death of a 19-year-old man on Tues­day night.

The Pub­lic Trans­port Ser­vice Cor­po­ra­tion (PTSC) has ex­tend­ed con­do­lences and pledged sup­port to the af­fect­ed fam­i­lies of vet­er­an bus dri­ver Mun­saf Khan and SWAT Es­tate Po­lice Com­pa­ny of­fi­cer Rox­anne Phillip, fol­low­ing Tues­day’s fa­tal crash that claimed the lives of the two.

Bri­an Lara is urg­ing politi­cians to keep his name out of any di­vi­sive top­ic or de­bate, as the war of words con­tin­ues be­tween the Gov­ern­ment and for­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley over an al­leged move to dis­re­spect the crick­et leg­end.

Al­though mys­tery con­tin­ues to sur­round the ori­gin of al­leged death threats is­sued to De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge, at least two of his Cab­i­net col­leagues have as­sured that this is not af­fect­ing his abil­i­ty to per­form his du­ties. This, de­spite his non-ap­pear­ance in the last week.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro is sup­port­ing Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar in her stance that Gov­ern­ment will not be spend­ing tax­pay­ers’ dol­lars to as­sist four na­tion­als re­cent­ly de­tained in Venezuela.