Agri­cul­ture Min­is­ter Ravi Rati­ram says there are al­ter­na­tive fer­tilis­ers that farm­ers can use as the Gov­ern­ment seeks to set­tle the on­go­ing dis­pute with Nu­trien.

The Unit­ed States South­ern Com­mand has do­nat­ed US$25,000 in ed­u­ca­tion­al equip­ment and sup­plies to Rox­bor­ough An­gli­can Pri­ma­ry School, in an ini­tia­tive that sup­ports dig­i­tal lit­er­a­cy and im­proved learn­ing en­vi­ron­ments. The han­dover comes as there is con­fir­ma­tion that US marines are in To­ba­go fol­low­ing the in­stal­la­tion of a mil­i­tary radar on the is­land.

Jus­tice Frank Seep­er­sad says the coun­try can­not progress with­out lead­ers who act with in­tegri­ty and are pre­pared to make dif­fi­cult de­ci­sions for the com­mon good. He de­liv­ered the mes­sage at the MIP­SHA Pres­by­ter­ian Church as it cel­e­brat­ed its 152nd an­niver­sary.

A Pe­nal welder helped po­lice ar­rest three al­leged in­trud­ers on Fri­day af­ter they at­tempt­ed to en­ter his home and fired sev­er­al shots at him.

Po­lice ar­rest­ed a La Brea land­lord af­ter a fire was set at a house at Sobo Cir­cu­lar Road on Fri­day.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal says the gov­ern­ment is con­sid­er­ing every pos­si­ble com­mer­cial arrange­ment to restart the Pointe-à-Pierre re­fin­ery, in­clud­ing part­ner­ships with for­eign gov­ern­ments, in­ter­na­tion­al in­vestors and com­pa­nies that pre­vi­ous­ly bid for the as­set.

Cy­ber­se­cu­ri­ty ex­pert Nicholas Ram­sey, own­er of N Ram­sey Con­sul­tan­cy, and Crime Stop­pers di­rec­tor Dar­rin Carmichael are warn­ing busi­ness­es and home­own­ers to be es­pe­cial­ly alert this Christ­mas sea­son, stress­ing that crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty be­comes more ag­gres­sive, op­por­tunis­tic, and strate­gi­cal­ly planned at this time of year.  

A Dow Vil­lage man man­aged to es­cape his ab­duc­tors hours af­ter two men forced their way in­to his home on Sat­ur­day night.

A 38-year-old man was found shot dead in the car park of a bar in Kel­ly Vil­lage ear­ly Sat­ur­day.

Po­lice said the in­ci­dent hap­pened around 10.05 p.m. while he was tend­ing to his dog, which he be­lieved had been poi­soned. He told in­ves­ti­ga­tors that two men ap­proached him, and one, de­scribed as slim, about five feet eight inch­es tall, brown-skinned and wear­ing a dark hood­ie and black trousers, point­ed a firearm at him and said, “this is a rob­bery, car­ry me in­side.”

Po­lit­i­cal leader of the PNM To­ba­go Coun­cil and for­mer Chief Sec­re­tary of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA), An­cil Den­nis, has de­scribed the re­cent bound­ary ad­just­ments to two To­ba­go elec­toral dis­tricts as mi­nor, not­ing they are un­like­ly to af­fect the re­sults of the up­com­ing elec­tions.

For the pe­ri­od the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) and the Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer (CPO) ne­go­ti­at­ed, the Cen­tral Gov­ern­ment’s to­tal av­er­age an­nu­al rev­enue be­tween 2014 and 2019 was $46.85 bil­lion.