To­ba­go Ho­tel and Tourism As­so­ci­a­tion (TH­TA) pres­i­dent Regi­nald MacLean says ac­com­mo­da­tion book­ings for this year’s Car­ni­val could have been much stronger if trav­el to the is­land had been prop­er­ly or­gan­ised in ad­vance.

De­spite re­ports that the dis­pute at Point Lisas had been re­solved, an in­ter­nal memo from Nu­trien shows the com­pa­ny has al­ready shut down its Trinidad op­er­a­tions and re­mains dis­sat­is­fied with the out­come of its talks with the Na­tion­al En­er­gy Cor­po­ra­tion (NEC).

At just 21, Di­nesh Gadraj had his whole life mapped out. A proud grad­u­ate of Shi­va Boys’ Hin­du Col­lege, he had aced his ex­ams and was set to be­gin train­ing at the Ken­son School of Pro­duc­tion Tech­nol­o­gy, study­ing to be­come a drilling rig tech­ni­cian—a dream born from his fas­ci­na­tion with the oil and gas off­shore in­dus­try.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les had asked act­ing Pres­i­dent Wade Mark to “aban­don any ap­point­ment of a sub­stan­tive Chief Jus­tice at this time,” and in­stead re­vert to ap­point­ing an act­ing Chief Jus­tice be­fore the swear­ing-in of Jus­tice Ron­nie Boodoos­ingh yes­ter­day.

Less than 24 hours af­ter Ivor Archie an­nounced his in­ten­tion to re­tire as Chief Jus­tice, Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Ju­di­cia­ry wel­comed for­mer ap­pel­late judge Ron­nie Boodoos­ingh to the po­si­tion.

T&T’s de­ci­sion to co-sign a joint state­ment with the Unit­ed States and sev­er­al Latin Amer­i­can coun­tries con­grat­u­lat­ing Bo­livia’s new pres­i­dent has sparked de­bate about the di­rec­tion of T&T’s for­eign pol­i­cy and its align­ment with­in Cari­com.

A small group of main­ly fam­i­ly and a few Las Cuevas vil­lagers yes­ter­day paid trib­ute to Chad “Char­po” Joseph, who was killed in a US airstrike on a pur­port­ed drug ves­sel on Oc­to­ber 14, close to Venezuela.

Venezuela Vice Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­driguez is warn­ing that the Unit­ed States is “de­ceiv­ing” Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar over the new li­cence for ex­plo­ration of the Drag­on gas field.

For­mer en­er­gy min­is­ter Stu­art Young says what is tak­ing place on the Pt Lisas In­dus­tri­al Es­tate, with very im­por­tant com­pa­nies run­ning from T&T, is go­ing to lead to se­ri­ous dif­fi­cul­ties for the Gov­ern­ment’s rev­enue plans.

Af­ter 600 Nu­trien Trinidad Ni­tro­gen Op­er­a­tions work­ers faced the prospect of be­ing laid off, the Na­tion­al Trade Union Cen­tre (NATUC) has opened its doors to ad­vo­cat­ing on their be­half.

The Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC) has agreed to waive its US$28 mil­lion claim in retroac­tive port fees from glob­al fer­tilis­er gi­ant Nu­trien Ltd, amidst a threat of le­gal ac­tion by the Cana­di­an com­pa­ny.

Links Lim­it­ed, a com­pa­ny owned by Point Fortin May­or Clyde James and his rel­a­tives, earned more than $2 mil­lion from the State in Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) con­tracts be­tween 2021 and 2025, a Guardian Me­dia in­ves­ti­ga­tion has dis­cov­ered.