New­ly ap­point­ed Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Util­i­ties Bar­ry Padarath has wast­ed no time in mak­ing his dis­ap­point­ment about how the Of­fice of Dis­as­ter Pre­pared­ness and Man­age­ment (ODPM) op­er­ates known.

The T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) is in­ves­ti­gat­ing the dis­ap­pear­ance of ap­prox­i­mate­ly $90,000 in cash from the San Fer­nan­do City Cor­po­ra­tion’s of­fice on Pen­i­tence Street.

While the Min­istry of De­fence is con­sid­er­ing the Pi­paro Em­pow­er­ment Cen­tre (PEC) as one of the venues to house de­por­tees from the Unit­ed States, the fa­cil­i­ty is cur­rent­ly used to care for vul­ner­a­ble chil­dren. 

The Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Util­i­ties is promis­ing to in­struct the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) to re­lease a re­port in the com­ing days that al­leged­ly re­veals ge­o­graph­ic dis­crim­i­na­tion in wa­ter dis­tri­b­u­tion un­der the pre­vi­ous ad­min­is­tra­tion.

To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine and Mi­nor­i­ty Leader Kelvon Mor­ris yes­ter­day en­gaged in a war of words over a mo­tion on au­ton­o­my sched­uled for de­bate dur­ing to­day’s ple­nary sit­ting.

With just days to go be­fore the of­fi­cial start, di­rec­tor of the To­ba­go Emer­gency Man­age­ment Agency (TEMA), Al­lan Stew­art, says prepa­ra­tions are un­der­way, but far from per­fect.

Tu­na­puna Pi­ar­co Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion chair­man Josi­ah Austin says he is hop­ing that the Gov­ern­ment will see the im­por­tance of lo­cal gov­ern­ment re­form and that it will al­so be able to pro­vide the fi­nances nec­es­sary to strength­en lo­cal gov­er­nance. 

The Min­istry of the Peo­ple, So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices is set to pro­vide im­me­di­ate aid to De­bra Woods, a res­i­dent of East­ern Quar­ry, Laven­tille, who suf­fered mi­nor in­juries on May 18 when a re­tain­ing wall ad­ja­cent to her prop­er­ty gave way amid pro­longed heavy rain, crash­ing down on­to her home and caus­ing ex­ten­sive struc­tur­al dam­age.

Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots (PDP) leader Wat­son Duke claims the peo­ple of To­ba­go didn’t vote for the To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP) in the last gen­er­al elec­tion, but in­stead for the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress.

With the open­ing of Par­lia­ment set for this Fri­day, Con­gress of the Peo­ple (COP) leader Prakash Ra­mad­har is still in the dark about his po­ten­tial role in the up­com­ing ses­sion.

Ap­prox­i­mate­ly 350 guests from sev­er­al sec­tors, along with school stu­dents, will be at­tend­ing to­mor­row’s cer­e­mo­ni­al open­ing of the first ses­sion of the 13th Par­lia­ment.

A 32-year-old man from Cara­pichaima has been freed of rap­ing a teenag­er in 2016 af­ter she re­fused to tes­ti­fy against him.