Agri­cul­ture Min­is­ter Ravi Rati­ram says he will meet with farm­ers from the Re­trench Es­tate fol­low­ing claims that a pri­vate con­trac­tor and a for­mer gov­ern­ment min­is­ter are in­volved in ef­forts to re­move them from lands used for cul­ti­va­tion.

At­tor­ney Ger­ald Ramdeen has been ap­point­ed chair­man of the state-owned Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC), just weeks af­ter Cab­i­net re­voked the ap­point­ment of Dr Randy Ra­mad­har Singh, who served as lead di­rec­tor for less than a month.

Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Car­la Kan­ga­loo has chal­lenged cit­i­zens to em­brace per­son­al and na­tion­al trans­for­ma­tion, us­ing the steel­pan as a sym­bol of what is pos­si­ble when cre­ativ­i­ty, dis­ci­pline, and com­mu­ni­ty spir­it come to­geth­er.

To­ba­go po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing a failed ATM bur­glary in Cas­tara and are ex­plor­ing the the­o­ry that the sus­pects may have used boats to en­ter and es­cape the area.

This week, T&T has an op­por­tu­ni­ty to put its na­tion­al con­cerns on the radar of Eu­ro­pean de­ci­sion-mak­ers, as it strength­ens diplo­mat­ic and eco­nom­ic ties with the Eu­ro­pean Union through par­tic­i­pa­tion in the Eu­ro­pean Union Vis­i­tors Pro­gramme (EU­VP).

The fam­i­lies of the men mur­dered in Gon­za­les on Sun­day are hop­ing that trou­bled youths who may be vul­ner­a­ble to gangs can re­ceive ad­di­tion­al pri­or­i­ty as part of re­newed ef­forts to fight crime.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro has stopped short of set­ting a time­line for re­sults in the fight against crime but says his “ex­cep­tion­al re­la­tion­ship” with Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der lays the ground­work for pos­i­tive out­comes very soon.

Chair­man of Guaracara Re­fin­ing Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed Gow­tam Ma­haraj says it is too ear­ly to de­ter­mine whether bids will be re­opened for the Pointe-a-Pierre re­fin­ery.

The Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) has re­ject­ed as “pure PNM pro­pa­gan­da” a so­cial me­dia post claim­ing Min­is­ter of Works and In­fra­struc­ture Jear­lean John told PSA pres­i­dent Fe­l­isha Thomas the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) Gov­ern­ment could not af­ford the promised 10 per cent salary in­crease.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro says the re­cent per­cep­tion of a surge in mur­ders re­flects a re­turn to “crim­i­nal nor­mal­i­ty” fol­low­ing the end of the State of Emer­gency (SoE).

In just one week, po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing three kid­nap­pings—two end­ing in mur­ders and the third, up to 7 pm, with no ran­som de­mand made.

A week ago, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar an­nounced she will bring leg­is­la­tion to the Par­lia­ment seek­ing to raise the age lim­it of al­co­hol con­sump­tion to 21 years and gam­bling and the use of mar­i­jua­na to age 25.