Overnight tor­ren­tial show­ers have re­sult­ed in street flood­ing in some parts of Pe­nal Rock Road.

Ex­perts and for­mer of­fi­cials are sound­ing the alarm as the fu­ture of the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) hangs in the bal­ance, with no clear di­rec­tion from the new ad­min­is­tra­tion fol­low­ing its de­ci­sion to aban­don the pre­vi­ous gov­ern­ment’s trans­for­ma­tion plan.

Less than three weeks af­ter re­sign­ing as chair­man of the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA), Ravin­dra Nan­ga has ac­cused Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath of go­ing on a witch hunt by ac­cus­ing the for­mer board of cor­rup­tion and wrong­do­ing.

A small fire broke out on the ve­ran­dah of the Na­tion­al Li­brary Build­ing in Port-of-Spain around 9 pm on Fri­day, prompt­ing an emer­gency re­sponse from staff and fire of­fi­cials.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has been en­dorsed by her col­leagues for the post of Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) po­lit­i­cal leader and so far she is the on­ly can­di­date vy­ing for the po­si­tion.

Spe­cial­ist med­ical of­fi­cer Dr Joel Teelucks­ingh, who has been cleared of wrong­do­ing near­ly two months af­ter the South West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (SWRHA) launched an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to an ar­ti­cle he wrote, said the or­deal has strength­ened his com­mit­ment to speak­ing the truth.

For­mer gov­ern­ment min­is­ter Dr Bhoen­dra­datt Tewarie has warned that in­creased ten­sions be­tween Venezuela and the Unit­ed States fol­lowed by tougher sanc­tions could trig­ger a new wave of mi­gra­tion across the hemi­sphere.

Al­though res­i­dents in the qui­et com­mu­ni­ty of Moo­nan Road, Waller­field, are ac­cus­tomed to hear­ing gun­shots, the steady vol­ley that rang out yes­ter­day morn­ing alert­ed them that some­thing was wrong.

Af­ter more than a month of un­cer­tain­ty, a foren­sic au­top­sy per­formed yes­ter­day morn­ing has con­firmed that 41-year-old Iyana Cas­tana­da died of nat­ur­al caus­es.

The Min­istry of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty con­firmed yes­ter­day that 21 T&T na­tion­als will be de­port­ed from the Unit­ed States fol­low­ing a for­mal re­quest from US Im­mi­gra­tion and Cus­toms En­force­ment (ICE).

Al­though res­i­dents in the qui­et com­mu­ni­ty of Moo­nan Road, Waller­field, are ac­cus­tomed to hear­ing gun­shots from time to time, the steady vol­ley that rang out yes­ter­day morn­ing alert­ed them that some­thing was amiss.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) has an­nounced that the Point Fortin De­sali­na­tion Plant is cur­rent­ly op­er­at­ing be­low nor­mal ca­pac­i­ty due to an elec­tri­cal is­sue.