Works and Trans­port Min­is­ter Ro­han Sinanan has re­vealed that track­ing down dri­vers who have amassed enough de­mer­it points to war­rant a sus­pen­sion of their per­mits has been dif­fi­cult.

While many South and Cen­tral Trinidad com­mu­ni­ties wel­comed the re­turn of wa­ter to their taps, frus­tra­tion over the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty’s (WASA) man­age­ment of the week-long Point Lisas De­sali­na­tion Plant shut­down per­sist­ed.

In the coastal town of Grand La­goon, Ma­yaro, where the waves meet the shore at Ec­cles Road, lives 20-year-old Chloe Ram­nar­ine.

A two-month-old ba­by nar­row­ly es­caped death when gun­men killed his fa­ther, who was sleep­ing next to him and his moth­er in Mara­bel­la yes­ter­day morn­ing.

So­cial ac­tivist and at­tor­ney Ja­son Jones says he has no faith in the po­lice find­ing the killers of LGBTQIA+ ad­vo­cate Ken­nty Mitchell. He cit­ed a decade-long pat­tern of in­ad­e­quate in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the mur­ders of mem­bers and ad­vo­cates of the com­mu­ni­ty in T&T.

Works and Trans­port Min­is­ter Ro­han Sinanan is ex­pect­ing nor­mal op­er­a­tions at the Port of Port-of-Spain to­day.

Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Nyan Gads­by-Dol­ly says al­most 4,000 school and book grants will be hand­ed out in the new year - 2025. She says this will fol­low the 20,200 grants dis­bursed in fis­cal 2024.

The House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives will this af­ter­noon de­bate the no­ti­fi­ca­tions for five mem­bers of the new Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion, in­clud­ing crim­i­nol­o­gist/at­tor­ney Dr Wen­dell C Wal­lace who is al­so a mem­ber of the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC).

Amid on­go­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to an al­leged as­sault on an im­mi­gra­tion of­fi­cer by an Air­ports Au­thor­i­ty (AA) es­tate con­sta­ble, the Es­tate Po­lice As­so­ci­a­tion (EPA) has come for­ward to de­fend the con­sta­ble, say­ing that he act­ed with­in the scope of his du­ties.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) an­nounced in a state­ment that the alert will be­gin at 1:30 pm to­day and end at 6:00 pm.

Trop­i­cal Storm Sara on Sun­day made land­fall in Be­lize, where fore­cast­ers ex­pect heavy rain to cause life-threat­en­ing flash flood­ing and mud­slides.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) is ad­vis­ing cus­tomers that the Point Lisas De­sali­na­tion Plant was restart­ed around 5:00 p.m. on Sat­ur­day 16 No­vem­ber, one day ahead of the orig­i­nal­ly sched­uled com­ple­tion time.