En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal has hailed this coun­try’s re­cent meet­ing with Sau­di Ara­bi­an en­er­gy gi­ant Sau­di Aram­co as a ma­jor step to­ward eas­ing the for­eign ex­change cri­sis and cre­at­ing jobs.

Re­tired se­nior su­per­in­ten­dent John­ny Abra­ham has been named as head of the Na­tion­al Op­er­a­tions Cen­tre (NOC) and Field Of­fice.

For­mer FI­FA ex­ec­u­tive Jack Warn­er says while he is re­lieved that US ex­tra­di­tion pro­ceed­ings against him have been per­ma­nent­ly stayed, he is still un­easy as he seeks to move on with his life.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les says she is notic­ing a wor­ry­ing spike in vi­o­lence against women and girls.

Na­tion­al award win­ner Sab­ri­na Mowlah-Baksh has called on women to em­brace their re­silience and use their in­nate po­ten­tial to chart their own path­ways.

Op­po­si­tion Chief Whip Mar­vin Gon­za­les has warned that democ­ra­cy in T&T is un­der threat, af­ter House Speak­er Jagdeo Singh blocked the op­po­si­tion from ask­ing sup­ple­men­tal ques­tions dur­ing Prime Min­is­ter’s Ques­tion Time (PMQT) on Fri­day, cit­ing that the Stand­ing Or­ders do not pro­vide for such ques­tions.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) vice chair­man Dr Amery Browne says the par­ty has no com­ment on re­marks by Or­der of the Re­pub­lic of T&T (ORTT) re­cip­i­ent Pro­fes­sor Sel­wyn Cud­joe, who said he had heard crit­i­cism sug­gest­ing his award may have been linked to his af­fil­i­a­tion with the cur­rent ad­min­is­tra­tion.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) chair­man Mar­vin Gon­za­les is call­ing on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to launch an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to whether Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der had prop­er clear­ance to vis­it in­mates at the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison dur­ing his tenure as a se­nior po­lice of­fi­cer.

For­mer for­eign af­fairs min­is­ter and Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) vice chair­man Dr Amery Browne has warned Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar against what he de­scribed as “slo­ga­neer­ing” in her for­eign pol­i­cy, rais­ing con­cerns about her rhetoric on re­gion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al af­fairs.

For­mer at­tor­ney gen­er­al Anand Ram­lo­gan is call­ing on mem­bers of the Pub­lic Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PSC) to re­sign af­ter the Privy Coun­cil ruled that a re­tired fire of­fi­cer was by­passed for pro­mo­tion in breach of his con­sti­tu­tion­al rights.

The Court of Ap­peal on Wednes­day ruled that Dig­i­cel tres­passed when it con­struct­ed a com­mu­ni­ca­tions tow­er on land in Freeport, over­turn­ing a High Court find­ing and or­der­ing Dig­i­cel to com­pen­sate the landown­er’s es­tate. The amount of dam­ages will be as­sessed by a Mas­ter in Cham­bers.

Two months af­ter her res­cue from an aban­doned beach house in Ram­panal­gas, To­co, kid­nap vic­tim Jankie Karim has pub­licly thanked the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) for their ef­forts in en­sur­ing her safe re­cov­ery.