A per­fect day at the beach end­ed in hor­ror yes­ter­day, af­ter a run­away jet ski ploughed in­to a va­ca­tion­ing Bar­rack­pore fam­i­ly and killed sev­en-year-old An­gel­i­ca Jo­gie at Pi­geon Point, To­ba­go.

That was the mes­sage from Min­is­ter of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Khadi­jah Ameen yes­ter­day, as she warned mu­nic­i­pal cor­po­ra­tions bur­dened by hun­dreds of mil­lions of dol­lars in debt to pri­ori­tise set­tling ar­rears.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says a diplo­mat­ic del­e­ga­tion will soon trav­el to Venezuela to en­sure Trinidad and To­ba­go se­cures its “just share” of cross-bor­der oil and gas re­sources, sig­nalling a re­newed push to ad­vance long-stalled en­er­gy projects.

The for­mer prime min­is­ter of St Vin­cent and the Grenadines has made a bomb­shell al­le­ga­tion, claim­ing that For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers was not barred or “dis­in­vit­ed” from the re­treat in Nevis, but in­stead in­formed re­gion­al of­fi­cials that he could not make the trip by boat due to sea­sick­ness.

An­tigua and Bar­bu­da Prime Min­is­ter Gas­ton Browne says his coun­try will be stay­ing out of the im­passe be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go and Cari­com de­spite be­ing drawn in­to the con­tro­ver­sy by this coun­try’s For­eign Af­fairs min­is­ter.

In­ter­na­tion­al re­la­tions ex­pert Mwale Hen­ry is cau­tion­ing the Gov­ern­ment against es­ca­lat­ing ten­sions with­in the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com), even as he ac­knowl­edges that con­cerns raised over the re­cent reap­point­ment of Dr Car­la Bar­nett are le­git­i­mate.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has ex­pressed shock and grief over the killing of busi­ness­man Steve Ghany Jr, re­veal­ing that he had spent time with him just days be­fore his death.

Af­ter years of lim­it­ed equip­ment and de­layed re­spons­es to emer­gen­cies, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Fire Ser­vice (TTFS) has re­ceived a ma­jor op­er­a­tional boost with the han­dover of six new fire ten­ders val­ued at $69 mil­lion.

The in­ter­nal elec­tion for the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) To­ba­go Coun­cil has been resched­uled to April 26, in­stead of the pre­vi­ous­ly an­nounced April 19.

Al­der­men in the Point Fortin Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion are rais­ing con­cerns that the Gov­ern­ment may be fa­cil­i­tat­ing sep­a­rate events by Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment Ernesto Ke­sar, while the cor­po­ra­tion strug­gles to fund Bor­ough Day 2026.

A 44-year-old woman from St Joseph was shot dead af­ter be­ing lured out­side her home yes­ter­day af­ter­noon.

Dozens of res­i­dents of La Brea, who were af­fect­ed by an oil spill in De­cem­ber 2013, have suf­fered yet an­oth­er le­gal de­feat in their bid to sue the now-de­funct state oil com­pa­ny Petrotrin for neg­li­gence.