The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) has re­port­ed two in­ci­dents of van­dal­ism at Pe­nal Wells #17 and #18 in South-West Trinidad.

Min­is­ter of the Peo­ple, So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices, Van­dana Mo­hit, says re­cent cas­es of vi­o­lence against women in Trinidad and To­ba­go re­quire na­tion­al ac­tion.

Min­is­ter of Ter­tiary Ed­u­ca­tion and Skills Train­ing Prakash Per­sad is en­cour­ag­ing cit­i­zens, par­tic­u­lar­ly young peo­ple, to pur­sue train­ing in what he de­scribed as “AI-proof” ca­reers, as the world braces for the grow­ing im­pact of ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence on the work­force.

Se­nior Tech­ni­cal Of­fi­cer at the Caribbean Cen­tre for Re­new­able En­er­gy and En­er­gy Ef­fi­cien­cy, Char­lin Bod­ley, is urg­ing stronger glob­al com­mit­ments and fi­nanc­ing mech­a­nisms as the re­gion pre­pares for the first in­ter­na­tion­al con­fer­ence ded­i­cat­ed to phas­ing out fos­sil fu­els.

Chuck Nor­ris, the mar­tial arts grand­mas­ter and ac­tion star whose roles in “Walk­er, Texas Ranger” and oth­er tele­vi­sion shows and movies made him an icon­ic tough guy — spark­ing in­ter­net par­o­dies and ado­ra­tion from pres­i­dents — has died at 86.

The lead­er­ship of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) is fac­ing mount­ing crit­i­cism over what some now see as a rift and are de­scrib­ing as a trou­bling lack of re­spect for for­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley and an ap­par­ent fail­ure to show hu­mil­i­ty to­ward long-stand­ing par­ty stal­warts.

The Na­tion­al Trade Union Cen­tre of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NATUC) has strong­ly con­demned re­marks made by for­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley about Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, warn­ing that such lan­guage un­der­mines the dig­ni­ty of pub­lic of­fice and the stan­dard of na­tion­al lead­er­ship.

Gov­ern­ment has moved to clar­i­fy the role of Land­mark TT Prop­er­ties Ltd fol­low­ing crit­i­cism from for­mer hous­ing min­is­ter Camille Robin­son-Reg­is, who ac­cused the ad­min­is­tra­tion of us­ing the com­pa­ny to al­low as­so­ciates to ac­cess state lands at “pep­per­corn rates.”

The To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) will be de­liv­er­ing 250 hous­ing units to the peo­ple by Au­gust 2027.

The gov­ern­ment is tak­ing steps to bring the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) Debe cam­pus up to op­er­a­tional readi­ness ahead of the new aca­d­e­m­ic year, but no de­ci­sions have been made re­gard­ing which fac­ul­ties will oc­cu­py the site.

Min­is­ter of Land and Le­gal Af­fairs Sad­dam Ho­sein in­sists the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion’s (HDC) trans­fer fee pol­i­cy, which sparked con­fu­sion last month, is not in ef­fect.

Dan­ny Guer­ra, 49, the own­er of DG Homes, was laid to rest yes­ter­day, a week af­ter he was gunned down by masked as­sailants while seat­ed in his black Toy­ota Hilux at his North Oropouche busi­ness.