Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath on Tues­day met with the As­so­ci­a­tion of De­nom­i­na­tion­al Boards of Ed­u­ca­tion (ADBE), just days af­ter the as­so­ci­a­tion’s call for talks was high­light­ed in the me­dia.

Trinci­ty Mal­oney MP Camille Robin­son-Reg­is has crit­i­cised the Speak­er of the House, ar­gu­ing that Stand­ing Or­der 28(3) is at risk of be­com­ing an “un­chal­lenge­able shield” for gov­ern­ment se­cre­cy af­ter min­is­ters again re­fused to an­swer ques­tions in Par­lia­ment.

The Ser­vice Sta­tion Own­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (ODA) has raised ques­tions about the in­tro­duc­tion of li­dar speed en­force­ment de­vices by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS), say­ing the move comes at a time when ba­sic re­sources re­main lim­it­ed at some po­lice sta­tions such as print­ers, re­ceipt books and oth­er es­sen­tial ad­min­is­tra­tive items.

The Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion is sus­pend­ing a re­quire­ment that for­eign vis­i­tors from coun­tries that have qual­i­fied for the World Cup and have bought tick­ets for the soc­cer tour­na­ment pay as much as $15,000 in bonds to en­ter the Unit­ed States, the State De­part­ment said Wednes­day.

For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers is in Wash­ing­ton, D.C. for a se­ries of high-lev­el bi­lat­er­al meet­ings with se­nior of­fi­cials of the Unit­ed States Gov­ern­ment.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has con­grat­u­lat­ed Ba­hami­an Prime Min­is­ter Philip Davis and the Pro­gres­sive Lib­er­al Par­ty on their elec­toral vic­to­ry and re­newed man­date from the peo­ple of The Ba­hamas.

Prime Min­is­ter Philip Davis guid­ed his rul­ing Pro­gres­sive Lib­er­al Par­ty (PLP) to a record sec­ond con­sec­u­tive term in of­fice af­ter it swept Tues­day’s gen­er­al elec­tion, which he had called ahead of the con­sti­tu­tion­al dead­line.

House Speak­er Jagdeo Singh dis­missed con­cerns about gov­ern­ment ac­count­abil­i­ty in Par­lia­ment to­day as a “tired old sto­ry” while de­fend­ing Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der's re­fusal to an­swer ques­tions tied to the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency and al­leged threats against se­nior law en­force­ment of­fi­cers.

A 74-year-old man from Siparia, who killed his three-year-old son and dis­posed of his body al­most four decades ago, will have to serve over three more years in prison be­fore he can be re­leased.

Gov­ern­ment plans to re­cruit 800 new prison of­fi­cers with­in months, as part of a broad­er push to strength­en the coun­try’s prison sys­tem un­der the pro­posed Pa­role Bill 2026.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty has con­demned what it de­scribed as an act of crim­i­nal sab­o­tage fol­low­ing the theft of a pow­er ca­ble at the St. Joseph Boost­er Sta­tion in Ma­yaro.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice is seek­ing the pub­lic’s as­sis­tance in lo­cat­ing 19-year-old Pe­ter Isaac, who was re­port­ed miss­ing ear­li­er this week.