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.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der and Op­po­si­tion MPs clashed yes­ter­day dur­ing the Stand­ing Fi­nance Com­mit­tee’s ex­am­i­na­tion of the Na­tion­al Bud­get, as de­bate in­ten­si­fied over al­lo­ca­tions to the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) for fis­cal 2026.

Raw waste has been leak­ing in­to the sea at Mt Irvine Beach in To­ba­go, rais­ing pub­lic health con­cerns as beach­go­ers con­tin­ue to swim just me­tres away from con­t­a­m­i­nat­ed wa­ter.

With just six weeks left in the life of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly, Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has of­fered no hint of an elec­tion time­line.

The fu­ture of the Book Grant and School Sup­plies Pro­gramme is un­cer­tain, as Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath has con­firmed the ini­tia­tive is un­der re­view and re­ceived no fund­ing in this year’s na­tion­al bud­get.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine says the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) will con­tin­ue to fol­low the po­si­tion of the cen­tral gov­ern­ment on mat­ters of for­eign pol­i­cy, in­clud­ing the cur­rent ten­sions in­volv­ing Venezuela and the Unit­ed States in the Caribbean re­gion.

A Mor­vant man is in crit­i­cal con­di­tion at the hos­pi­tal af­ter he was struck while cross­ing the road on Tues­day.