The rel­a­tive of slain St Ann’s welder Ja­mal Williams says she does not know who to trust, as the killers in­volved in his mur­der were re­port­ed­ly dressed in cloth­ing bear­ing po­lice in­signia.

For Anya Teeluck­d­har­ry, nine Grade Ones at CAPE are the re­sult of a les­son she learned from watch­ing her par­ents work hard: suc­cess does not come with­out de­ter­mi­na­tion and dis­ci­pline.

For two years, while prepar­ing for his Caribbean Sec­ondary Ed­u­ca­tion Cer­tifi­cate (CSEC) and Caribbean Ad­vanced Pro­fi­cien­cy Ex­am­i­na­tion (CAPE) ex­am­i­na­tions, the Shi­va Boys’ Hin­du Col­lege stu­dent was al­so help­ing his fa­ther, Siew­nar­ine Ram­per­sad, and old­er broth­er Vashist Ram­per­sad care for his bedrid­den grand­fa­ther, 81-year-old De­onath Ram­per­sad. Then, in Au­gust last year, De­onath died.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath says ne­go­ti­a­tions be­tween the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) and the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) have ad­vanced sig­nif­i­cant­ly, with the Gov­ern­ment meet­ing a dead­line set ear­li­er this week to move the out­stand­ing wage pro­pos­als for­ward.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath has de­nied any Gov­ern­ment in­ter­fer­ence in the can­cel­la­tion of a Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Work­ers Union (CWU) protest out­side TSTT House yes­ter­day, in­stead ac­cus­ing CWU Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al Joanne Ogeer of en­gag­ing in base­less spec­u­la­tion over the de­ci­sion.

Sev­er­al cur­rent and for­mer par­lia­men­tar­i­ans named by the In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion for out­stand­ing de­c­la­ra­tions say they have since moved to bring their fil­ings up to date.

The En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty (EMA) says there is noth­ing im­prop­er about the work be­ing car­ried out at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah to ac­com­mo­date this year’s In­de­pen­dence Day pa­rade.

Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Hous­ing Phillip Alexan­der yes­ter­day called on the Op­po­si­tion to ex­plain what he de­scribed as spe­cial treat­ment al­leged­ly giv­en to a con­trac­tor in the award of a mul­ti-mil­lion-dol­lar Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) project.

To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) Sec­re­tary of Youth Em­pow­er­ment Keigon De­noon is urg­ing Trini­bad artistes to use their mu­sic to pro­mote pos­i­tive mes­sages.

The En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty (EMA) says it has found no breach­es of en­vi­ron­men­tal re­quire­ments in works be­ing car­ried out at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah ahead of In­de­pen­dence Day cel­e­bra­tions, as crit­i­cism grows over the gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to re­lo­cate the pa­rade.

Two dogs were poi­soned on Thurs­day dur­ing a home in­va­sion in broad day­light at Tur­tle Cot­tage, Black Rock.

Pan on D’Av­enue XII could be back on, just hours af­ter or­gan­is­ers an­nounced its can­cel­la­tion.