The Court of Ap­peal has re­served its de­ci­sion on an over $1.3 bil­lion law­suit over un­paid con­tracts for in­fra­struc­ture works in south Trinidad done over a decade ago. 

Lopinot/Bon Air West MP Mar­vin Gon­za­les tore in­to Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der in To­ba­go on Tues­day night, say­ing T&T de­serves bet­ter than a min­is­ter who can­not read his own speech in Par­lia­ment.

Lone po­lit­i­cal leader can­di­date for the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment, Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is promis­ing that the lead­er­ship of the par­ty will be do­ing things dif­fer­ent­ly for its mem­bers and sup­port­ers in To­ba­go.

The new­ly ap­point­ed board of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) re­ceived their of­fi­cial Let­ters of Ap­point­ment to­day.

The U.S. State De­part­ment said Wednes­day it is restart­ing the sus­pend­ed process for for­eign­ers ap­ply­ing for stu­dent visas but all ap­pli­cants will now be re­quired to un­lock their so­cial me­dia ac­counts for gov­ern­ment re­view.

The Unit­ed States has con­firmed plans to ex­pand trav­el re­stric­tions to 36 ad­di­tion­al coun­tries—in­clud­ing four in the Caribbean—ac­cord­ing to a State De­part­ment brief­ing on Tues­day.

A sus­pect who has been ar­rest­ed in re­la­tion to the mur­der of 20-year-old Sa­van­nah Dy­er has been sent to the St Ann's Psy­chi­atric Hos­pi­tal for eval­u­a­tion, po­lice said. 

A Min­istry of En­er­gy in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the dead­ly June 15, 2023 fire at the Ni­Quan gas-to-liq­uids plant found “in­ad­e­quate lead­er­ship and su­per­vi­sion,” poor risk con­trols, and a break­down in both safe­ty sys­tems and emer­gency re­sponse. The in­ci­dent re­sult­ed in the death of pipe fit­ter Al­lan­lane Ramkissoon. In­ves­ti­ga­tors de­scribed the fa­cil­i­ty as “still strug­gling with ba­sic safe­ty gov­er­nance.”

Po­lit­i­cal leader-elect of the PNM, Pene­lope Beck­les, told sup­port­ers in To­ba­go on Tues­day night that she un­der­stands the pain mem­bers are feel­ing and pledged to lead dif­fer­ent­ly if elect­ed.

The Gov­ern­ment and Op­po­si­tion have both called for MPs on the op­pos­ing side to be re­ferred to Par­lia­ment’s Com­mit­tee of Priv­i­leges over al­leged­ly mis­lead­ing state­ments, in sep­a­rate com­plaints raised dur­ing Wednes­day’s sit­ting.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has con­demned the as­sault of sev­er­al chil­dren at San­ta Rosa Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School and reaf­firmed her gov­ern­ment’s com­mit­ment to stu­dent safe­ty.

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump would not say Wednes­day whether he has de­cid­ed to or­der a U.S. strike on Iran, a move that Tehran warned anew would be greet­ed with stiff re­tal­i­a­tion if it hap­pens.