There has been no de­lib­er­ate at­tempt on the part of the Gov­ern­ment to re­duce To­bag­o­ni­ans’ au­ton­o­my con­cern­ing the ser­vices they have be­come ac­cus­tomed to at the Reg­is­trar Gen­er­al’s of­fice.

For­mer Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) St Au­gus­tine MP Vas­ant Bharath says he will be of­fer­ing him­self for screen­ing with the UNC which starts to­day for nom­i­nees in cer­tain ar­eas.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley is trav­el­ling to Bar­ba­dos this morn­ing to meet with a high-lev­el del­e­ga­tion from the Unit­ed States, who wish to en­gage with sev­er­al Cari­com lead­ers.

Oropouche East MP Dr Roodal Mooni­lal be­lieves Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Fitzger­ald Hinds owes US Pres­i­dent-elect Don­ald Trump and the US Gov­ern­ment an apol­o­gy.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has slammed back at crit­ics of her state­ments on Venezue­lan mi­grants, in­clud­ing Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Fitzger­ald Hinds, call­ing it “lu­na­cy.”

Min­is­ter in the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter with re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for gen­der and child af­fairs, Ayan­na Web­ster-Roy, is mak­ing a clar­i­on call for vic­tims of gen­der-based vi­o­lence to seek help. Web­ster Roy ac­knowl­edges that do­mes­tic vi­o­lence is not lim­it­ed to women and girls but says women are the main vic­tims.

An 11-year-old autis­tic girl, who was re­port­ed­ly left alone at home on Wednes­day night, died at hos­pi­tal af­ter be­ing burnt about the body dur­ing a house fire. Po­lice said An­na Love-Taitt, of Paul Castil­lo Av­enue, Phase Four, Mal­abar, Ari­ma, lived with a close male rel­a­tive, aged 50, and an­oth­er man in the qui­et neigh­bour­hood.

Cul­tur­al Stud­ies lec­tur­er Dr Kai Bar­ratt says the One Caribbean Mu­sic Fes­ti­val fea­tur­ing dance­hall artiste Adi­ja Palmer, aka Vy­bz Kar­tel, shows the need by some peo­ple in this coun­try for for­eign val­i­da­tion. This week news broke that Vy­bz Kar­tel would be per­form­ing in this coun­try on Car­ni­val Fri­day, at the height of this coun­try’s cel­e­bra­tions.

Op­er­a­tions at the Co­conut Grow­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (CGA), East­ern Main Road, Laven­tille, were in­ter­rupt­ed for a sec­ond straight day yes­ter­day af­ter re­pairs to a leak­ing am­mo­nia line con­tin­ued.

Potable wa­ter is a ba­sic es­sen­tial, but over the last few decades, res­i­dents of Uri­ah But­ler Street, New Vil­lage in Point Fortin, nev­er had the priv­i­lege of a con­sis­tent sup­ply of the vi­tal re­source.

The man who was struck and killed dur­ing a road traf­fic ac­ci­dent along the Churchill-Roo­sevelt High­way (CRH) on Wednes­day morn­ing, re­mained uniden­ti­fied up to yes­ter­day.

Ch­agua­nas May­or Faaiq Mo­hammed has an­nounced mea­sures to ad­dress vend­ing and se­cu­ri­ty con­cerns dur­ing the busy Christ­mas shop­ping sea­son.