The Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) has launched its SPARK Ini­tia­tive - School Part­ner­ship for Aware­ness, Re­spon­si­bil­i­ty & Knowl­edge - as part of its 80th an­niver­sary cel­e­bra­tions, in­tro­duc­ing sec­ondary school stu­dents to ca­reers in the en­er­gy sec­tor and mod­ern elec­tric­i­ty sys­tems.

The Uni­ver­si­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (UTT) has tak­en bold steps to ad­vance both so­cial in­clu­sion and en­vi­ron­men­tal sus­tain­abil­i­ty with the sign­ing of two strate­gic Mem­o­ran­da of Un­der­stand­ing (MoUs). The agree­ments, made with the Trinidad and To­ba­go As­so­ci­a­tion for the Hear­ing Im­paired (TTAHI) and the Caribbean Cetacean So­ci­ety (CCS), re­flect UTT’s grow­ing role as a dri­ver of na­tion­al and re­gion­al de­vel­op­ment.

A mas­sive, mul­ti-agency search is con­tin­u­ing across To­ba­go for two-year-old An­ge­lo To­bias Plaza, who went miss­ing from his Good­wood home. The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) con­firmed that sev­en peo­ple are cur­rent­ly in cus­tody as law en­force­ment in­ten­si­fies its ef­forts to lo­cate the tod­dler.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has ac­cused Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar of lead­ing a “wicked” and “in­com­pe­tent” Gov­ern­ment now try­ing to dis­tract from mount­ing con­tro­ver­sies sur­round­ing the HDC and Land­mark­TT.

The Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go Lim­it­ed (NGC) has fi­nalised a ma­jor Gas Sales Con­tract (GSC) with Methanol Hold­ings (Trinidad) Lim­it­ed (MHTL), the largest methanol pro­duc­er on the Point Lisas Es­tate. Signed on Tues­day at NGC’s Point Lisas head­quar­ters, the agree­ment marks the suc­cess­ful con­clu­sion of 100 per­cent of NGC’s gas con­tract re­newals with down­stream cus­tomers and Pro­man Group com­pa­nies.

The Chil­dren’s Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go is urg­ing cit­i­zens to take a more ac­tive role in pro­tect­ing vul­ner­a­ble chil­dren as it marks 11 years since leg­is­la­tion was passed es­tab­lish­ing the or­gan­i­sa­tion.

The nude body of an uniden­ti­fied man of mixed de­scent was dis­cov­ered by work­ers at Co­cal Es­tate, Man­zanil­la, on Mon­day.

Thir­ty-five sheep and sev­en goats il­le­gal­ly brought in­to Trinidad and To­ba­go were eu­thanised af­ter vet­eri­nary of­fi­cials de­ter­mined the an­i­mals were in­fect­ed with a com­mu­ni­ca­ble dis­ease fol­low­ing a mul­ti-agency op­er­a­tion in Ce­dros.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) Na­tion­al Women’s League has come out strong­ly in de­fence of Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les, in­sist­ing she will de­cide the fu­ture of Sen­a­tor Janelle John-Bates “in due course” while ac­cus­ing the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) of hypocrisy and po­lit­i­cal dis­trac­tion.

ARI­ZONA — Even as the Caribbean con­tin­ues to grap­ple with il­le­gal mi­gra­tion, Unit­ed States se­nior ad­vis­er and for­mer jour­nal­ist CJ Kara­mar­gin has con­firmed the US is strength­en­ing and ex­pand­ing sec­tions of its bor­der wall to curb il­le­gal mi­gra­tion, while al­so main­tain­ing sys­tems to care for mi­grants and ad­dress hu­man­i­tar­i­an needs.

May­or of the Diego Mar­tin Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion Ake­li­ah Glas­gow-Warn­er is rais­ing con­cerns over se­vere traf­fic dis­rup­tion and in­dis­crim­i­nate park­ing caused by a large-scale med­ical out­reach ini­tia­tive in Diego Mar­tin yes­ter­day.

Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny chair­man Ger­ald Ramdeen is de­fend­ing the state com­pa­ny’s de­ci­sion to end its 21-year re­la­tion­ship with in­ter­na­tion­al rat­ings agency Moody’s, say­ing the move does not rep­re­sent a re­treat from trans­paren­cy or in­de­pen­dent scruti­ny.