ANSA McAL Ex­ec­u­tive Chair­man A Nor­man Sab­ga is ex­press­ing en­thu­si­asm over the Trinidad and To­ba­go Re­vi­tal­i­sa­tion Blue­print, de­scrib­ing the scale of the plan as “very ex­cit­ing.”

Res­i­dents of Sea Lots, Port-of-Spain, have mixed views about the Gov­ern­ment’s plan to trans­form part of their com­mu­ni­ty in­to a mod­ern port and gov­ern­ment hub.

Two pro­posed in­fra­struc­tur­al projects aimed at en­hanc­ing na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty ef­fi­cien­cies have been wel­comed by lo­cal se­cu­ri­ty stake­hold­ers, but one as­so­ci­a­tion head is urg­ing Gov­ern­ment to in­vest in main­tain­ing fa­cil­i­ties to en­sure suc­cess.

Op­po­si­tion MPs are ask­ing the Gov­ern­ment to ex­plain just how it in­tends to fund its ma­jor Re­vi­tal­i­sa­tion Plan un­veiled on Thurs­day, which showed ma­jor de­vel­op­ment projects for the coun­try.

A day af­ter an­nounc­ing that there will be a leg­isla­tive re­view of the En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Act (2000), Min­is­ter of Plan­ning, Eco­nom­ic Af­fairs and De­vel­op­ment, Kennedy Swarats­ingh, has as­sured that it is not meant to cir­cum­vent the clear­ance process for in­fra­struc­tur­al de­vel­op­ment.

US De­fence Sec­re­tary Pe­te Hegseth on Thurs­day an­nounced an­oth­er dead­ly US strike on a boat he said was traf­fick­ing nar­cotics in the Caribbean Sea.

The Joint Trade Union Move­ment (JTUM) is voic­ing its op­po­si­tion to any form of mil­i­tary con­flict in the re­gion, de­clar­ing that the Caribbean must re­main a “Zone of Peace.”

Days af­ter the nurs­ing as­so­ci­a­tion met with the board of the North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA), nurs­es protest­ed out­side the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ence Com­plex yes­ter­day, de­mand­ing an in­crease in staff.

The mem­bers of the State of Emer­gency (SoE) Re­view Tri­bunal are de­fend­ing them­selves against claims that they have not been per­form­ing their du­ties as re­quired and have fall­en asleep on the job.

The Min­istry of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries has con­tact­ed the new­ly formed Trinidad and To­ba­go Ag­gre­gate Pro­duc­ers Al­liance (TTA­PA) amid on­go­ing con­cerns over the is­suance of sand and grav­el pro­cess­ing li­cences.

One fam­i­ly was evac­u­at­ed from Fyz­abad, and fish­er­men were forced to halt their trade in Fuller­ton Beach fol­low­ing sep­a­rate oil spills.

An ear­ly morn­ing fire along Ve­ga De Oropouche, To­co Main Road, has left three fam­i­lies—15 peo­ple in to­tal—home­less, with loss­es es­ti­mat­ed at close to $1 mil­lion.