Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has an­nounced that all pri­vate Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route pass­es cur­rent­ly in cir­cu­la­tion, to­talling 625, will be of­fi­cial­ly re­called by Ju­ly 1, this year.

There will be sev­en new In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tors when the 13th Re­pub­li­can Par­lia­ment com­mences this af­ter­noon.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has added two more mem­bers to her Gov­ern­ment, bring­ing it to a to­tal of 38 peo­ple.

For­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley says to this day, he re­mains “deeply sad­dened” by the trag­ic deaths of four divers in the Paria div­ing in­ci­dent on Feb­ru­ary 25, 2022. He al­so re­grets how the tragedy be­came “ex­treme­ly politi­cised” and pro­tract­ed.

Last Mon­day, the T&T Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) de­clared the start of the an­nu­al wet sea­son af­ter record­ing rain­fall in­di­rect­ly as­so­ci­at­ed with the In­ter-Trop­i­cal Con­ver­gence Zone.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says Gov­ern­ment is spend­ing far too much on con­tract­ed pri­vate se­cu­ri­ty ser­vices—near­ly half a bil­lion dol­lars—and has launched a re­view of the ex­ist­ing agree­ments in a bid to rein in costs.

En­er­gy and En­er­gy Af­fairs Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal has an­nounced that he will lead a small, high-lev­el del­e­ga­tion to Wash­ing­ton DC from May 28-30 for a se­ries of strate­gic meet­ings aimed at deep­en­ing T&T’s en­er­gy ties with the Unit­ed States.

The Taxi Dri­vers Net­work says in­stead of be­ing scrapped, the De­mer­it Points Sys­tem (DPS) should be re­struc­tured to en­sure fair­ness to the mo­tor­ing pub­lic.

Dis­as­ter man­age­ment ex­perts say while they un­der­stand the frus­tra­tions ex­pressed by Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath about the op­er­a­tions of the Of­fice of Dis­as­ter Pre­pared­ness Man­age­ment (ODPM), in­suf­fi­cient leg­is­la­tion and in­ad­e­quate re­sources hin­der the agency’s abil­i­ty to meet his ex­pec­ta­tions.

Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Khadi­jah Ameen is await­ing a for­mal re­port on the dis­ap­pear­ance of ap­prox­i­mate­ly $90,000 from the San Fer­nan­do City Cor­po­ra­tion (SFCC), as in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue in­to the miss­ing funds.

An in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tion by of­fi­cers of the West­ern Di­vi­sion Gang and In­tel­li­gence Unit has led to the seizure of 1,000 rounds of 9mm am­mu­ni­tion and the ar­rest of a Laven­tille man.

The gov­ern­ment of In­dia has do­nat­ed 19,000 kilo­grammes of rice and 12,500 litres of ed­i­ble oil to T&T. The sup­plies were for­mal­ly hand­ed over by In­di­an High Com­mis­sion­er Dr Pradeep Ra­jpuro­hit dur­ing a cer­e­mo­ny at the Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture’s head of­fice in Ch­agua­nas on Wednes­day.