Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says Gov­ern­ment in­tends to fol­low up on an of­fer made by In­dia’s Ex­ter­nal Af­fairs Min­is­ter Dr Sub­rah­manyam Jais­hankar for a po­ten­tial line of cred­it to Trinidad and To­ba­go, de­scrib­ing his re­cent vis­it as “ex­treme­ly mean­ing­ful and pro­duc­tive.”

The de­bate over re­nam­ing Nel­son Is­land is tak­ing shape as his­to­ri­ans and In­dige­nous lead­ers ad­vance pro­pos­als ahead of na­tion­al con­sul­ta­tions be­ing pre­pared by the Gov­ern­ment.

A re­tired fire of­fi­cer has suf­fered a fi­nal de­feat in his le­gal bat­tle over be­ing al­leged­ly by­passed for pro­mo­tion based on vary­ing stances on the ap­plic­a­bil­i­ty of his post­grad­u­ate qual­i­fi­ca­tions.

Even as the Caribbean Pub­lic Health Agency (Carpha) in­ves­ti­gates re­ports claim­ing T&T has de­tect­ed cas­es of han­tavirus, the Min­istry of Health yes­ter­day de­nied the claims and dis­missed a cir­cu­lat­ing memo about school clo­sures as fake.

The Min­is­ter of the Peo­ple, So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices, Van­dana Mo­hit, has re­ject­ed claims made by for­mer min­is­ter Ayan­na Web­ster-Roy over the op­er­a­tions of the Child Af­fairs Di­vi­sion, de­scrib­ing the al­le­ga­tions as “mis­lead­ing” and “deeply dis­hon­est.”

The Sen­ate is due to re­con­vene to­day but is yet to re­ceive any in­di­ca­tion on whether Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has ac­cept­ed the res­ig­na­tion of Sen­a­tor Janelle John-Bates, some 11 days af­ter she ten­dered it.

Venezuela ’s act­ing Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez told jour­nal­ists Mon­day that her coun­try had no plans to be­come the 51st U.S. state af­ter Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump said he was “se­ri­ous­ly con­sid­er­ing” the move.

Min­is­ter of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries Dr Roodal Mooni­lal met with ex­ec­u­tives of state en­er­gy com­pa­nies and Chevron Cor­po­ra­tion on Mon­day, to dis­cuss in­vest­ment op­por­tu­ni­ties in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Bish­ops of the An­tilles Epis­co­pal Con­fer­ence (AEC) have con­clud­ed a two-week vis­it to Rome that in­clud­ed the Ad Lim­i­na Apos­tolo­rum Vis­it and the An­nu­al Ple­nary Meet­ing of the con­fer­ence.

The Min­istry of Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion has warned the pub­lic about text mes­sages cir­cu­lat­ing with links claim­ing to fa­cil­i­tate pay­ment for Fixed Penal­ty No­tices.

For­mer hous­ing min­is­ter Camille Robin­son-Reg­is is ac­cus­ing Hous­ing Min­is­ter David Lee of fail­ing to ex­er­cise prop­er over­sight over his min­istry, fol­low­ing fresh con­tro­ver­sy sur­round­ing the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion’s sus­pend­ed $3.4 bil­lion hous­ing pro­gramme.

The Caribbean Pub­lic Health Agency (CARPHA) says the han­tavirus out­break linked to the MV Hondius cruise ship in­volves the An­des virus strain, which is ca­pa­ble of lim­it­ed hu­man-to-hu­man trans­mis­sion.