Fol­low­ing the Unit­ed States’ re­vo­ca­tion of li­cences for T&T’s gas projects with Venezuela, David Lee, the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) shad­ow en­er­gy min­is­ter, has ac­knowl­edged the need for di­a­logue with US au­thor­i­ties be­fore pur­su­ing cross-bor­der en­er­gy agree­ments.

Venezue­lan Op­po­si­tion Leader María Co­ri­na Macha­do is cel­e­brat­ing the US gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to re­voke oil and gas com­pa­nies’ li­cences as part of the on­go­ing trade and eco­nom­ic war against the South Amer­i­can coun­try.

No apol­o­gy. That is the po­si­tion tak­en by Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar re­gard­ing At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Camille Robin­son-Reg­is’ call for an apol­o­gy on state­ments made by Per­sad-Bisses­sar about the AG’s cer­tifi­cate to prac­tice law and oth­er mat­ters.

Po­lit­i­cal Leader of the PNM To­ba­go Coun­cil, An­cil Den­nis, be­lieves a leaked record­ing pur­port­ed to be of a con­ver­sa­tion be­tween Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine and UNC Po­lit­i­cal Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar con­firms his long-held sus­pi­cion of a de­lib­er­ate plot to de­stroy To­ba­go’s con­struc­tion sec­tor.

There will be an “IMF Part 2” un­der a Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) gov­ern­ment, the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) Aranguez/St Joseph can­di­date Ter­rence Deyals­ingh warned on Tues­day night.

Dur­ing the cur­rent cut and thrust of po­lit­i­cal de­bates dur­ing the on­go­ing Gen­er­al Elec­tion bat­tle, politi­cians have been de­liv­er­ing some gems and jabs on the hus­tings. To­day, we con­tin­ue to de­liv­er some of the state­ments that may have been missed.

While an of­fi­cial cal­cu­la­tion will be done in June this year, of­fi­cials from the Min­istry of So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices sus­pect that the num­ber of home­less per­sons may have de­creased in re­cent years.

Min­is­ter of Ed­u­ca­tion Dr Nyan Gads­by-Dol­ly wants the over 17,900 stu­dents sit­ting the 2025 Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) ex­am to­day to know that re­gard­less of what hap­pens, it is not the end of their ed­u­ca­tion­al jour­ney.

Rel­a­tives of Kendell Doolal, who was mur­dered on Tues­day night, be­lieve jeal­ousy on his job site was the rea­son for his killing.

A Venezue­lan man who poked his head out­side his front door af­ter hear­ing a com­mo­tion, was shot in the mouth and neck by the men who were chas­ing his 44-year-old friend to kill him on Tues­day night.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing in­to the al­leged rape of an 11-year-old stu­dent by a close male rel­a­tive, three years ago.

The mur­der toll in­creased yes­ter­day, fol­low­ing sep­a­rate killings in Pe­tit Val­ley and San Juan.