Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Khadi­jah Ameen says the ac­cu­mu­la­tion of rub­bish in cer­tain ar­eas is the re­sult of the for­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment ad­min­is­tra­tion di­vert­ing funds from re­gion­al cor­po­ra­tions to cre­ate ad­di­tion­al Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) and reaf­foresta­tion pro­gramme con­tracts.

Cari­com Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al Dr Car­la Bar­nett has ex­tend­ed con­grat­u­la­tions to Trinidad and To­ba­go on the oc­ca­sion of its 63rd an­niver­sary of in­de­pen­dence.

Days af­ter the Bar­ba­dos gov­ern­ment’s an­nounce­ment that it had pur­chased the Banyan archives from T&T, the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) has re­vealed it is work­ing on a dig­i­tal archive meant to pre­serve To­ba­go’s his­to­ry.

Of­fi­cials at the Em­per­or Val­ley Zoo suc­cess­ful­ly cap­tured a mon­key that was roam­ing around Mar­aval Road, Port-of-Spain, and the sur­round­ing ar­eas on Wednes­day.

The Be­lize Fund for a Sus­tain­able Fu­ture is pro­vid­ing a grant of BDZ$250,000 (One Be­lize dol­lar =US$0.49 cents) to the Be­lize Ho­tel As­so­ci­a­tion (BHA) and the Be­lize Tourism and In­dus­tries As­so­ci­a­tion (BTIA) to help the coun­try deal with the im­pact of the sar­gas­sum along the coast­lines.

His son, Za­akir Ish­mael, post­ed on so­cial me­dia, “Salaams and good morn­ing, I re­gret to in­form [you of] the pass­ing of my dad, In­shan Ish­mael. He passed peace­ful­ly this morn­ing among his fam­i­ly. Fu­ner­al (janazah) arrange­ments will be post­ed In­shal­lah. In­na lil­lahi wa in­na ilay­hi ra­ji’un (Sure­ly we be­long to Al­lah and to Him is our re­turn).”

Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion Min­is­ter Eli Za­k­our says he has no up­date on when the new ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port ter­mi­nal will be of­fi­cial­ly hand­ed over, but con­firmed the trans­fer to his min­istry is ex­pect­ed soon.

Con­gress of the Peo­ple (COP) po­lit­i­cal leader Prakash Ra­mad­har has en­dorsed Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s de­ci­sion to sup­port the Unit­ed States and its in­ter­na­tion­al part­ners in tak­ing a stronger stance against nar­co­traf­fick­ing and nar­co-states.

Days af­ter the Bar­ba­dos gov­ern­ment’s an­nounce­ment that it would buy the Banyan archives from T&T caused an up­roar in some quar­ters, the THA has re­vealed it is work­ing on a dig­i­tal archive meant to pre­serve To­ba­go’s his­to­ry. Speak­ing ex­clu­sive­ly with Guardian Me­dia at Car­ifes­ta XV in Bar­ba­dos,  Sec­re­tary of Tourism, Cul­ture, An­tiq­ui­ties & Trans­porta­tion Tashia Bur­ris said they are work­ing on a dig­i­tal her­itage archive.

The Min­istry of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment has re­ject­ed claims by Diego Mar­tin Cen­tral MP Symon de No­bri­ga that the Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to de­vel­op a na­tion­al pol­i­cy on gat­ed com­mu­ni­ties is a “po­lit­i­cal gim­mick.”

The Min­istry of Hous­ing on Fri­day host­ed a Home Im­prove­ment Grant (HIG) cheque dis­tri­b­u­tion cer­e­mo­ny where cheques were dis­trib­uted to 38 pro­gramme ben­e­fi­cia­ries.

Ap­prox­i­mate­ly one week be­fore the new school term, the To­ba­go arm of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) is rais­ing con­cerns about school readi­ness, ac­cus­ing the Di­vi­sion of Ed­u­ca­tion of fail­ing to pro­vide clear up­dates on its 2025 re­pair pro­gramme.