Port-of-Spain May­or Chin­ua Al­leyne says the Min­istry of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment has fi­nal­ly ap­proved the trans­fer of funds need­ed to cov­er June salaries for City Cor­po­ra­tion em­ploy­ees, but warned that work­ers re­main un­paid un­til the Min­istry of Fi­nance com­pletes the trans­fer process.

The Break­fast Shed will re­main open while its le­gal bat­tle with the Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go Lim­it­ed (Ude­cott) pro­ceeds, af­ter the High Court or­dered that an ex­ist­ing in­junc­tion re­main in place un­til a full tri­al in Jan­u­ary 2027.

The new­ly up­lift­ed coast­line at Gal­fa Beach is pro­vid­ing sci­en­tists with rare ge­o­log­i­cal ev­i­dence while high­light­ing the chal­lenge of re­con­struct­ing an earth­quake’s ef­fects when no ded­i­cat­ed seis­mic mon­i­tor­ing in­stru­ments were in place to record what hap­pened be­neath the site.

An oil spill trig­gered by sus­pect­ed sab­o­tage in Bar­rack­pore is be­ing treat­ed as a pos­si­ble sign of wider co­or­di­nat­ed at­tacks on na­tion­al in­fra­struc­ture, En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal has said, as po­lice in­ves­ti­gate dam­age to a pipeline linked to Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed.

De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge says the Mil­i­tary-Led Aca­d­e­m­ic Train­ing (Mi­LAT) Pro­gramme has not been closed but tem­porar­i­ly sus­pend­ed as the Gov­ern­ment re­views its fu­ture, amid mount­ing crit­i­cism that the move could leave vul­ner­a­ble young men with­out a crit­i­cal sup­port sys­tem.

Four serv­ing mem­bers of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Reg­i­ment were ad­mit­ted to the Bar as at­tor­neys last week.

Min­is­ter of Sport and Youth Af­fairs Phillip Watts says part­ner­ships be­tween the Gov­ern­ment, pri­vate com­pa­nies, schools and com­mu­ni­ties can help cre­ate op­por­tu­ni­ties for young peo­ple, as he ad­dressed the launch of An­gos­tu­ra’s re­fur­bished crick­et prac­tice net at Blan­chisseuse Sec­ondary School.

Prime Min­is­ter of Saint Lu­cia, Philip Pierre, who is in­com­ing chair­man of Cari­com, has pledged to steer the re­gion­al bloc to­wards a more peo­ple-cen­tred ap­proach, say­ing in­te­gra­tion must de­liv­er tan­gi­ble ben­e­fits in the dai­ly lives of Caribbean cit­i­zens.

The Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go Lim­it­ed (NGC) has re­spond­ed to Methanex’s de­ci­sion to in­def­i­nite­ly idle its Ti­tan plant, stat­ing that the move stems pri­mar­i­ly from dis­agree­ment over gas pric­ing rather than sup­ply avail­abil­i­ty.

Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed is re­spond­ing to what it be­lieves is an act of sab­o­tage fol­low­ing a hy­dro­car­bon leak dis­cov­ered along GT Road, Bar­rack­pore to­day. The com­pa­ny said pre­lim­i­nary as­sess­ments in­di­cate a sec­tion of pipeline ap­prox­i­mate­ly six feet in length had been de­tached trig­ger­ing spill re­sponse mea­sures af­ter ac­ti­vat­ing its In­ci­dent Com­mand Sys­tem.

The High Court has ruled that the his­toric Break­fast Shed may con­tin­ue op­er­at­ing pend­ing a full tri­al sched­uled for Jan­u­ary 2027, in a de­ci­sion wel­comed by its man­age­ment as a mea­sure of sta­bil­i­ty for ven­dors and pa­trons.

Do­minic Smith, Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion and Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence, has called for a new era of col­lab­o­ra­tion among gov­ern­ment, in­dus­try, acad­e­mia and civ­il so­ci­ety to un­lock the full po­ten­tial of ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence and dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion for the ben­e­fit of cit­i­zens.