Vil­lagers of Mamoral are de­mand­ing more from their po­lit­i­cal rep­re­sen­ta­tives as they strug­gle with bad roads, land­slides, wa­ter short­age, drainage prob­lems and high trans­porta­tion costs.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert yes­ter­day de­clined to give any per­son­al opin­ions on plans by trade unions to march on White­hall on Sat­ur­day.

High Court Judge Frank Seep­er­sad is ad­vo­cat­ing for amend­ments to firearms leg­is­la­tion to en­sure do­mes­tic vi­o­lence abusers don’t have ac­cess to guns. He says it should be re­viewed to en­sure women aren’t in dan­ger in­side their homes.

The gov­ern­ment of the Ba­hamas on Thurs­day re­ject­ed a pro­pos­al from the in­com­ing Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion in the Unit­ed States to take in de­port­ed mi­grants.

The Uni­ver­si­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (UTT) has cre­at­ed a waste man­age­ment roadmap for the La Brea In­dus­tri­al De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (LABID­CO), which could see a re­duc­tion of its gen­er­at­ed waste by thou­sands of tonnes, an­nu­al­ly.

Min­is­ter of Fi­nance Colm Im­bert MP has giv­en a re­port to the coun­try on the ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port project at the post-Cab­i­net me­dia brief­ing.

The Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Cu­mu­to/Man­zanil­la, Dr. Rai Rag­bir, is urg­ing Gov­ern­ment to be on the alert in the event a mys­te­ri­ous dis­ease in the De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Re­pub­lic of Con­go—which al­ready has claimed dozens of lives and in­fect­ed hun­dreds more—makes an ap­pear­ance in T&T.

Pub­lic health of­fi­cials in Africa urged cau­tion Thurs­day as Con­go’s health min­is­ter said the gov­ern­ment was on alert over a mys­tery flu-like dis­ease that in re­cent weeks killed dozens of peo­ple.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has threat­ened that To­ba­go will ask the world for help if the Cen­tral Gov­ern­ment re­fus­es to grant the is­land greater au­ton­o­my. Speak­ing at the To­ba­go Day Awards be­fore diplo­mats and am­bas­sadors at the Shaw Park Cul­tur­al Com­plex last night, Au­gus­tine said To­ba­go will fight for its right to self-de­ter­mi­na­tion un­der in­ter­na­tion­al law.

The head of Britain’s armed forces has warned that the world stands at the cusp of a “third nu­clear age,’’ de­fined by mul­ti­ple si­mul­ta­ne­ous chal­lenges and weak­ened safe­guards that kept pre­vi­ous threats in check.

Prime Min­is­ter of the Ba­hamas, Phillip Davis, said on Wednes­day he had ac­cept­ed the res­ig­na­tion of Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Clay­ton Fer­nan­der, as the fall­out con­tin­ues from the in­dict­ment by US law en­force­ment au­thor­i­ties of a se­nior Ba­hami­an po­lice of­fi­cer on charges of con­spir­a­cy to im­port co­caine, as well as pos­ses­sion and use of firearms last week.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley and Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar are now in a war of words on the ANR Robin­son Air­port ex­pan­sion project in To­ba­go.