The Cul­ture and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment Min­istry and Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion (NCC) have iden­ti­fied suit­able Car­ni­val spaces in the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah for Car­ni­val events to be held, and con­sul­ta­tion with oth­er stake­hold­ers is al­so on­go­ing, says Cul­ture Min­is­ter Michelle Ben­jamin.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) To­ba­go po­lit­i­cal leader An­cil Den­nis is ac­cus­ing the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) of plan­ning to qui­et­ly shut down the is­land’s Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) and Un­em­ploy­ment Re­lief Pro­gramme (URP), but on­ly af­ter vot­ers head to the polls.

A Venezue­lan woman was robbed of a bag of gro­ceries as she and her daugh­ter walked to their apart­ment in St James on Thurs­day night.

The Coali­tion for Dis­as­ter Re­silient In­fra­struc­ture (CDRI) is is­su­ing a stark re­minder that re­silience is no longer just an in­fra­struc­ture strat­e­gy; it is the on­ly path to sus­tain­abil­i­ty.

Venezue­lan De­fence Min­is­ter Vladimir Padri­no López has sent a strong mes­sage to T&T’s Gov­ern­ment that cur­rent mil­i­tary ex­er­cis­es demon­strat­ed an “ag­gres­sion” against Venezuela.

De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge yes­ter­day used a Par­lia­ment reg­u­la­tion to say it was not in the pub­lic in­ter­est to dis­close whether au­tho­ri­sa­tion had been grant­ed for var­i­ous US mil­i­tary op­er­a­tions in T&T’s land and sea ter­ri­to­ry.

The Ja­maica gov­ern­ment Fri­day con­firmed an out­break of lep­tospiro­sis with health au­thor­i­ties say­ing that six peo­ple have so far died as a re­sult.

Fish­er­men and Friends of the Sea (FFOS) has raised alarm over the re­cent re­vo­ca­tion of the U.S. visa of its cor­po­rate sec­re­tary, Gary Aboud, warn­ing that civ­il so­ci­ety voic­es may be un­der pres­sure for speak­ing out. The or­gan­i­sa­tion said NGOs are a crit­i­cal pil­lar of democ­ra­cy.

Sev­er­al na­tions and en­vi­ron­men­tal groups on Fri­day slammed pro­pos­als in the fi­nal stages of this year’s U.N. cli­mate talks for fail­ing to ex­plic­it­ly men­tion the cause of glob­al warm­ing — the burn­ing of fu­els such as oil, gas and coal — with one ne­go­tia­tor warn­ing the talks are on “the verge of col­lapse.”

PNM To­ba­go po­lit­i­cal leader An­cil Den­nis has ac­cused the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly of in­tend­ing to qui­et­ly end the is­land’s Com­mu­ni­ty-based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) and Un­em­ploy­ment Re­lief Pro­gramme (URP), but on­ly af­ter vot­ers head to the polls.

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro reaf­firmed his ze­ro-tol­er­ance ap­proach to il­le­gal quar­ry­ing and min­er­al pro­cess­ing, say­ing the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice has been pur­su­ing of­fend­ers for years and will con­tin­ue to dis­man­tle the crim­i­nal net­works be­hind the trade.

A Com­mu­ni­ty-based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme Com­pa­ny (Cepep) con­trac­tor has failed in its bid to re­vive its law­suit chal­leng­ing a mass ter­mi­na­tion ex­er­cise in the State com­pa­ny.