Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Melanie Roberts-Radg­man has ac­cused the Gov­ern­ment of hypocrisy re­gard­ing work­ers, and she's warned the ad­min­is­tra­tion not to use work­ers or To­ba­go as pro­pa­gan­da "sound­bites".

Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion Min­is­ter Eli Za­k­our has raised se­ri­ous con­cerns about con­flict of in­ter­est and ques­tion­able pro­cure­ment at the Pub­lic Trans­port Ser­vice Cor­po­ra­tion (PTSC), point­ing to $4.3 mil­lion in pay­ments made to a com­pa­ny owned by for­mer min­is­ter Richie Sookhai.

Min­is­ter of Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion Eli Za­k­our has raised alarm over al­le­ga­tions of gross mis­man­age­ment, cor­rup­tion, and im­prop­er pro­cure­ment at the Ve­hi­cle Man­age­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (VM­COTT), even ac­cus­ing a for­mer chair­man of us­ing State re­sources to sell pies for his sis­ter’s busi­ness.

Three Mex­i­can fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tions sanc­tioned by the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion last week have felt a cas­cade of eco­nom­ic con­se­quences fol­low­ing the al­le­ga­tions that they helped laun­der mil­lions of dol­lars for drug car­tels.

West In­dies crick­et icon Bri­an Lara has ap­pealed to the pub­lic for help in lo­cat­ing his miss­ing dog, Mo­ka.

A pas­sen­ger ar­riv­ing at Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port this morn­ing died af­ter suf­fer­ing a med­ical emer­gency in the Im­mi­gra­tion Hall.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce has com­mend­ed the Cus­toms and Ex­cise Di­vi­sion for restor­ing the Cus­toms Bor­der Con­trol Sys­tem (ASY­CU­DA), which was dis­rupt­ed on June 30 fol­low­ing a wa­ter leak at the Cus­toms House, Gov­ern­ment Cam­pus Plaza, Port of Spain.

Se­nior geo­sci­en­tist Xavier Moo­nan is call­ing for the re­lo­ca­tion of farm­ers and the con­struc­tion of a new road, as shift­ing land and gas emis­sions con­tin­ue in Los Iros.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal has crit­i­cised com­ments by St Vin­cent and the Grenadines Prime Min­is­ter Dr Ralph Gon­salves, who likened Trinidad and To­ba­go’s cur­ren­cy to mo­nop­oly mon­ey.

In­di­an Prime Min­is­ter Naren­dra Mo­di will be award­ed the Or­der of the Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go (ORTT) dur­ing his up­com­ing of­fi­cial vis­it to this coun­try from Ju­ly 3–4.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine is spend­ing his birth­day to­day look­ing back on a very dif­fer­ent Ju­ly 1—when, one year ago, To­ba­go was brac­ing for one of the most pow­er­ful storms the re­gion had ever seen.

Gov­ern­ment has giv­en a first look at the itin­er­ary of In­di­an Prime Min­is­ter Naren­dra Mo­di’s of­fi­cial vis­it to Trinidad and To­ba­go this week.