It could take up to ten years to re­solve the per­sis­tent flood­ing af­fect­ing res­i­dents of the South Oropouche Basin, ac­cord­ing to a com­mu­ni­ty en­vi­ron­men­tal­ist.

Act­ing Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) CEO Jee­van Joseph yes­ter­day led his new ex­ec­u­tive team on a tour of wa­ter in­fra­struc­ture projects in Cen­tral Trinidad.

In ad­di­tion to tack­ling crime and se­cu­ri­ty is­sues, Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty and Tu­na­puna MP Roger Alexan­der says he is al­so seek­ing to raise health con­scious­ness in so­ci­ety.

More heavy rains in Texas on Sun­day paused a week­long search for vic­tims of cat­a­stroph­ic flood­ing along the Guadalupe Riv­er and led to high-wa­ter res­cues else­where as of­fi­cials warned that the down­pours could again cause wa­ter­ways to surge.

The de­ci­sion to in­scribe ‘The Ar­chae­o­log­i­cal En­sem­ble of 17th Cen­tu­ry Port Roy­al’ was made at the meet­ing of the World Her­itage Com­mit­tee un­der­way in Paris, France.

A man and a woman caught steal­ing ca­bles from Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TSTT), were among six peo­ple ar­rest­ed for var­i­ous of­fences dur­ing an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es con­duct­ed this week in the South­ern Di­vi­sion.

The Min­istry of Health is urg­ing cit­i­zens to take pre­ven­ta­tive ac­tion against mos­qui­to bites dur­ing the rainy sea­son.

A well-known busi­ness­man was shot and killed on Fri­day night while dri­ving home in Freeport, leav­ing fam­i­ly mem­bers and the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty in shock.

A year and a half af­ter launch­ing a dig­i­tal plat­form along­side two prod­ucts geared to­wards mid­dle to low-in­come earn­ers, Re­pub­lic Life In­sur­ance Com­pa­ny is once again hop­ing to cov­er a less tar­get­ed mar­ket.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath and for­mer min­is­ter un­der the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) ad­min­is­tra­tion, Mar­vin Gon­za­les, are now en­gag­ing in a heat­ed war of words over the on­go­ing de­lays in promised pay­ments to Com­mu­ni­ty-based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) con­trac­tors and work­ers, amid wider ten­sions sur­round­ing the Gov­ern­ment’s re­struc­tur­ing of the pro­gramme.

Of­fi­cers from the Fi­nan­cial In­ves­ti­ga­tions Bu­reau (FIB) are work­ing to trace the ori­gin of a quan­ti­ty of cash that was found at a Val­sayn home some­time be­tween Fri­day and yes­ter­day morn­ing.

Two sep­a­rate com­pa­nies, linked to San Fer­nan­do City Cor­po­ra­tion coun­cil­lor Nigel Cout­ti­er and for­mer coun­cil­lor Jen­nifer Mar­ryshow, were award­ed near­ly $9.7 mil­lion in Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) con­tracts un­der the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment gov­ern­ment, an in­ves­ti­ga­tion by Guardian Me­dia’s In­ves­tiga­tive Desk has re­vealed.