The North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA) says it has suc­cess­ful­ly per­formed some 300 cataract surg­eries at the Cou­va Hos­pi­tal and Mul­ti Train­ing Fa­cil­i­ty over a three-month pe­ri­od.

Hun­dreds of Syr­i­an refugees gath­ered at two bor­der cross­ings in south­ern Turkey on Mon­day, ea­ger­ly an­tic­i­pat­ing their re­turn home fol­low­ing the fall of Pres­i­dent Bashar As­sad’s gov­ern­ment.

The In­sti­tute of Ma­rine Af­fairs (IMA), to­geth­er with a re­search team from Coastal Dy­nam­ics Lim­it­ed (CDL), is us­ing ad­vanced com­put­er mod­els to gain new in­sights in­to To­ba­go’s coral reef ecosys­tems.

Garbage col­lec­tion in the Pe­nal/Debe re­gion could halt as Christ­mas ap­proach­es, due to in­dus­tri­al ac­tion by dai­ly-paid work­ers from the Pe­nal/Debe Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion (PDRC), who are protest­ing un­paid al­lowances.

Po­lice have not yet held any sus­pects in con­nec­tion with the break-in over the week­end at Jus­tice Frank Seep­er­sad's To­ba­go home, which is lo­cat­ed in the Plan­ta­tions gat­ed com­mu­ni­ty.

The Or­gan­i­sa­tion of East­ern Caribbean States (OECS)  says it has launched a con­sul­tan­cy to de­liv­er a train­ing pro­gramme, to as­sist the Reg­is­trars of Com­pa­nies in An­tigua and Bar­bu­da, Do­mini­ca, Grena­da, and St. Vin­cent and the Grenadines with in­te­grat­ing a new, up­dat­ed plat­form for the on­line reg­is­tra­tion and in­cor­po­ra­tion of com­pa­nies.

The Prime Min­is­ter should end all the talk and spec­u­la­tion about his po­lit­i­cal fu­ture with a clear state­ment.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment al­der­man in the Siparia Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion Christo­pher Enci­nas, who re­ceived ma­jor­i­ty sup­port from the La Brea ex­ec­u­tive for can­di­da­cy, says he will re­sub­mit his nom­i­na­tion af­ter he fell ill and couldn’t be screened for the seat last Mon­day. And Enci­nas will be seek­ing can­di­da­cy against La Brea con­stituen­cy chair­man Jer­mel Pierre.

Mon­trose Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School de­liv­ered an en­chant­i­ng evening filled with fes­tive cheer on Sat­ur­day night at Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege, Ch­agua­nas, dur­ing a Christ­mas con­cert themed The Great­est Gift.

In­com­ing Salaries Re­view Com­mis­sion (SRC) chair­man Ian De Souza says he is not daunt­ed by the task giv­en to him, de­spite the body com­ing un­der heavy crit­i­cism for its re­cent re­port which has rec­om­mend­ed hefty salary in­creas­es for par­lia­men­tar­i­ans.

The Op­po­si­tion is to­day ex­pect­ed to echo To­ba­go calls for more con­sul­ta­tion on the two To­ba­go au­ton­o­my bills and most es­tranged Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress MPs aren’t sup­port­ing the bills.

Joint Con­sul­ta­tive Coun­cil (JCC) pres­i­dent Fazir Khan says the is­sue of cost over­runs on gov­ern­ment con­tracts is al­so a mat­ter for the Of­fice of the Pro­cure­ment Reg­u­la­tor (OPR) to ad­dress.