Min­is­ter of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries Dr Roodal Mooni­lal has ex­pressed sup­port for his min­is­te­r­i­al col­league Ernesto Ke­sar, who was named in a re­cent High Court rul­ing against the Oil­field Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU).

A fam­i­ly in Union Hall, San Fer­nan­do, is call­ing for ur­gent as­sis­tance from Hous­ing Min­is­ter David Lee, as they con­tin­ue to live in a de­te­ri­o­rat­ing apart­ment plagued by wa­ter in the base­ment, cracked tiles, leak­ing walls, and a per­sis­tent mos­qui­to in­fes­ta­tion.

Min­is­ter of Works and In­fra­struc­ture, Jear­lean John, along with her team from the Min­istry, joined Chair­man Ken­wyn Phillip and coun­cil mem­bers of the San­gre Grande Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion for a se­ries of site vis­its across the Cu­mu­to/Man­zanil­la and To­co/San­gre Grande con­stituen­cies on Wednes­day.

So­cial­ly dis­placed res­i­dents in San Fer­nan­do are now re­ceiv­ing train­ing in hy­dro­pon­ics and aquapon­ics through a new food pro­duc­tion sys­tem in­stalled at the Court Sham­rock Home for So­cial­ly Dis­placed peo­ple.

The Point Fortin Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion host­ed its first Ed­u­ca­tion and Ca­reer De­vel­op­ment Fair yes­ter­day, giv­ing young peo­ple a chance to ex­plore new op­por­tu­ni­ties and en­vi­sion fu­tures be­yond what is cur­rent­ly avail­able with­in the dis­trict.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has launched an im­me­di­ate in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the al­leged leak­ing of sen­si­tive in­for­ma­tion re­lat­ed to a re­cent sex­u­al as­sault in­ves­ti­ga­tion against at­tor­ney Mar­tin George.

The Ba­hamas gov­ern­ment Fri­day said its re­la­tion­ship with Chi­na is “root­ed in co­op­er­a­tion, de­vel­op­ment and shared val­ues” as the two coun­tries signed a frame­work agree­ment for the con­struc­tion of a new spe­cial­i­ty hos­pi­tal in west­ern New Prov­i­dence.

The Law As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go is call­ing on the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) and oth­er rel­e­vant au­thor­i­ties to launch an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the leak of con­fi­den­tial in­for­ma­tion sur­round­ing a re­port of sex­u­al as­sault made by a ju­nior at­tor­ney against a se­nior le­gal prac­ti­tion­er.

The Unit­ed States is sell­ing weapons to its NA­TO al­lies in Eu­rope so they can pro­vide them to Ukraine as it strug­gles to fend off a re­cent es­ca­la­tion in Rus­sia’s drone and mis­sile at­tacks, Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump and his chief diplo­mat said.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) has ne­go­ti­at­ed a new sched­ule for the an­nu­al main­te­nance of the Point Lisas De­sali­na­tion Plant, shift­ing it to Au­gust in a move to re­duce dis­rup­tion to cit­i­zens.

The Min­istry of Health, the Med­ical Board of Trinidad and To­ba­go, the Phar­ma­cy Board, and the Trinidad and To­ba­go Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce have agreed to a 30-day col­lab­o­ra­tive plan to re­solve con­cerns over the dis­tri­b­u­tion of spe­cial­ty drugs di­rect­ly to pa­tients.

The T&T As­so­ci­a­tion of Re­tired Per­sons (TTARP) has wel­comed Gov­ern­ment's plan to ex­empt pen­sions from tax­es and the Steel Work­ers' Union of T&T al­so wants Gov­ern­ment to "rewrite the wrong" and fa­cil­i­tate ben­e­fits for for­mer Arcelor/Mit­tal work­ers.