The re­cent­ly ap­point­ed head of the Strate­gic Ser­vices Agency (SSA) Arthur Bar­ring­ton was fired on Fri­day. A me­dia re­lease from the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al’s of­fice yes­ter­day said Cab­i­net re­voked his ap­point­ment.

Be­tween 2010 and 2024, the Gov­ern­ment of T&T spent ap­prox­i­mate­ly $798.3 bil­lion, yet earned on­ly $712.9 bil­lion, lead­ing to no­table deficits.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s plan to scrap the de­mer­it points sys­tem (DPS) could re­sult in loss­es of mil­lions of dol­lars in rev­enue when her new gov­ern­ment, is al­ready grap­pling with a pro­ject­ed $11 bil­lion deficit for this fis­cal year.

Head of the Eu­ro­pean Union (EU) del­e­ga­tion to Trinidad and To­ba­go Pe­ter Cavendish has re­mind­ed cit­i­zens that they can freely vis­it Eu­rope un­der the Schen­gen visa-free scheme.

Chair­man of the Dr Er­ic Williams Memo­r­i­al Com­mit­tee Regi­nald Vi­dale wants Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to ho­n­our the fa­ther of the na­tion by plac­ing his por­trait in every school in T&T.

Agri­cul­ture Min­is­ter Ravi Rati­ram said the gov­ern­ment is ex­plor­ing ways to sup­port the hor­ti­cul­ture in­dus­try.

San Fer­nan­do Car­ni­val icon Wendy Kallicha­ran will be ho­n­oured with a stand at Skin­ner Park as a per­ma­nent trib­ute to the role she and her hus­band, mas mn Ivan Kallicha­ran played in shap­ing San Fer­nan­do’s Car­ni­val.

Em­bat­tled Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher has been cleared of any wrong­do­ing in the im­por­ta­tion of two sniper ri­fles for the Strate­gic Ser­vices Agency (SSA). 

Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries (MEEI), Ernesto Ke­sar MP, has been ful­ly briefed on the in­ci­dent at Clus­ter S-912 in the South-West Sol­da­do Field, which oc­curred on Fri­day, and a team from the Min­istry con­tin­ues to work close­ly with Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed, to re­solve the is­sue.

An­tigua and Bar­bu­da Prime Min­is­ter, Gas­ton Browne, has blast­ed Min­is­ter of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs, Sean Sobers, as the search con­tin­ues for 21-year-old Thomas Vasquez.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, Pe­ter Dan­dass, of La Hor­quet­ta, ar­rived home around 3:30 am and was act­ing in a bel­liger­ent man­ner.

Po­lice are look­ing for a man who robbed an­oth­er man of his car and valu­ables while he wait­ed to meet up with his date from the Grindr app.