The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) is ad­vis­ing the pub­lic that sev­er­al sur­face wa­ter treat­ment fa­cil­i­ties in the North­east Re­gion are cur­rent­ly out of op­er­a­tion due to heavy overnight rain­fall.

For­mer Prime Min­is­ter and for­mer en­er­gy min­is­ter Stu­art Young has warned that the coun­try could face bond de­faults, law­suits, and a sov­er­eign cred­it down­grade due to what he de­scribes as a se­ri­ous over­sight by the UNC Gov­ern­ment in the re­cent min­is­te­r­i­al as­sign­ments.

The R&B singer Cassie tes­ti­fied Wednes­day that Sean “Did­dy” Combs raped her when she end­ed their decade-long re­la­tion­ship, af­ter he locked her in a life of phys­i­cal abuse by threat­en­ing to re­lease de­grad­ing sex­u­al videos of her.

Res­i­dents of Cou­va North voiced their frus­tra­tion over long­stand­ing in­fra­struc­ture prob­lems dur­ing a cot­tage meet­ing with their Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment, Jear­lean John, on Wednes­day evening.

De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge has or­dered that the itin­er­ary of Ja­maican dance­hall artist Vy­bz Kar­tel be cut.

Two days af­ter los­ing in court, for­mer po­lice com­mis­sion­er Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher and her at­tor­neys are ready­ing to re­turn there, af­ter her sus­pen­sion was lift­ed by the Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PolSC) hours af­ter she was sent on leave by new Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der.

Act­ing Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Ju­nior Ben­jamin has dis­missed claims there was a “pow­er play” at work by se­nior T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) mem­bers to un­der­mine and wrest con­trol from his pre­de­ces­sor, Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher.

For­mer TTPS pub­lic in­for­ma­tion of­fi­cer Sheri­don Hill says while the rep­u­ta­tion of the of­fice of the Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice has "tak­en a hit" in light of the ar­rest and sus­pen­sion of Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher, the ex­ec­u­tive should now en­gage in some in­tro­spec­tion to re­build their im­age.

The doc­u­ment sent by the Gov­ern­ment to the Pres­i­dent to be gazetted, which out­lines the roles and re­spon­si­bil­i­ties of each min­istry, con­tains er­rors and will now have to be amend­ed be­fore be­ing pub­lished.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has an­nounced that the cer­e­mo­ni­al open­ing of the new ses­sion of Par­lia­ment will take place on May 23. How­ev­er, she added yes­ter­day that “the first work­ing sit­ting will take place on a date to be fixed.”

The chair­man and board of di­rec­tors from the ma­jor­i­ty State-owned Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of T&T (TSTT) and its whol­ly owned sub­sidiary, Am­plia, have all re­signed. 

The Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) is de­fend­ing Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath’s over­sight of the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA), fol­low­ing claims that the Gov­ern­ment may be over­step­ping its in­volve­ment at the State util­i­ty.