In­com­ing Salaries Re­view Com­mis­sion (SRC) chair­man Ian De Souza says he is not daunt­ed by the task giv­en to him, de­spite the body com­ing un­der heavy crit­i­cism for its re­cent re­port which has rec­om­mend­ed hefty salary in­creas­es for par­lia­men­tar­i­ans.

The Op­po­si­tion is to­day ex­pect­ed to echo To­ba­go calls for more con­sul­ta­tion on the two To­ba­go au­ton­o­my bills and most es­tranged Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress MPs aren’t sup­port­ing the bills.

Joint Con­sul­ta­tive Coun­cil (JCC) pres­i­dent Fazir Khan says the is­sue of cost over­runs on gov­ern­ment con­tracts is al­so a mat­ter for the Of­fice of the Pro­cure­ment Reg­u­la­tor (OPR) to ad­dress.

A Mor­vant com­mu­ni­ty was left shak­en af­ter a shoot­ing led to the death of one man and the wound­ing of an­oth­er yes­ter­day morn­ing.

The Elec­tion and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion’s draft or­der on its re­view of con­stituen­cy bound­aries (2024), which was laid in Par­lia­ment in April, re­quires on­ly a sim­ple ma­jor­i­ty vote for pas­sage when it comes up in the House to­day.

As the rain poured in Bel­mont, Neisha Ram­sa­roop and her hus­band Vi­jay Pear­alal stared in­to the dis­tance in the di­rec­tion of what used to be their home.

Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Works Richie Sookhai says the widen­ing of the Solomon Ho­choy High­way be­tween Chase Vil­lage and Ch­agua­nas should be com­plet­ed be­fore the end of the year.

Am­bas­sador Ex­tra­or­di­nary and Plenipo­ten­tiary of the French Re­pub­lic to Trinidad and To­ba­go Di­di­er Chabert, says he hopes Caribbean Air­lines’ newest routes to Guade­loupe and Mar­tinique will open up ma­jor eco­nom­ic op­por­tu­ni­ties for T&T busi­ness­es in those coun­tries.

Is­rael Khan SC says he in­tends to re­sume his bat­tle to re­form the process of award­ing “silk” to de­serv­ing at­tor­neys in the Ap­peal Court next year

The Syr­i­an gov­ern­ment fell ear­ly Sun­day in a stun­ning end to the 50-year rule of the As­sad fam­i­ly af­ter a sud­den rebel of­fen­sive sprint­ed across gov­ern­ment-held ter­ri­to­ry and en­tered the cap­i­tal in 10 days.

Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Works Richie Sookhai has promised the widen­ing of the Solomon Ho­choy High­way be­tween Chase Vil­lage and Ch­agua­nas should be com­plet­ed be­fore the end of this year. He gave this as­sur­ance when he at­tend­ed a chil­dren’s treat at the Post­man Road Recre­ation Ground, En­ter­prise, Ch­agua­nas, on Sat­ur­day.

Three men are re­ceiv­ing treat­ment for gun­shot wounds af­ter gun­men at­tacked a birth­day lime in San Juan on Sat­ur­day night.