There have been no re­port­ed is­sues, thus far, in the vot­ing process to se­lect a coun­cil­lor for the Cunu­pia dis­trict, to­day.

Since the THA was formed in 1980, on­ly the De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Ac­tion Con­gress (DAC)/Na­tion­al Al­liance for Re­con­struc­tion (NAR) and the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) have gov­erned the is­land.

The dis­cov­ery that two of the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty’s (WASA) crit­i­cal wa­ter stor­age tanks have not been func­tion­ing for 15 years has trig­gered Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Mar­vin Gon­za­les to call for an au­dit in­to all of WASA’s wa­ter stor­age fa­cil­i­ties across the coun­try.

And a to­tal of 83,413 peo­ple el­i­gi­ble to go to the polls in To­ba­go and in five cor­po­ra­tion seats in Trinidad will be op­er­at­ing un­der strict COVID- 19 guide­lines.

That’s the as­sess­ment of the Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TATT), who in­formed the broad­cast­er of its de­ci­sion, to­day, Sun­day 24 Jan­u­ary 2021, in cor­re­spon­dence is­sued by CEO Cyn­thia Red­dock-Downes.

While thou­sands of vot­ers will stain their fin­gers to­mor­row in two elec­tions, the faces of fam­i­ly and friends of for­mer min­is­ter Clifton De Coteau will be stained with tears as they bid him a fi­nal farewell.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Fire Ser­vice (TTFS) had its new­ly con­se­crat­ed Colour (Flag) pre­sent­ed to­day, in an of­fi­cial cer­e­mo­ny presided over the Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty, Stu­art Young MP.

The man­age­ment of Five Is­lands Wa­ter and Amuse­ment Park is ques­tion­ing why the es­tab­lish­ment has not been giv­en the green light to re­sume op­er­a­tions af­ter in­vest­ing heav­i­ly in tools to ob­serve all COVID- 19 health pro­to­cols.

The lat­est up­date from the Min­istry of Health is con­firm­ing 11 new pos­i­tive cas­es of COVID-19, bring­ing the to­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es in the coun­try to 324 pa­tients.

The Po­lice Ser­vice is con­firm­ing that a man want­ed for var­i­ous firearm-re­lat­ed of­fences was shot and killed by po­lice af­ter he re­port­ed­ly point­ed a gun at of­fi­cers who were ex­e­cut­ing a search war­rant at his home to­day, Sun­day 24th Jan­u­ary 2021.

Fed up with bad roads de­stroy­ing their ve­hi­cles, Bar­rack­pore busi­ness­men pooled their re­sources to con­duct re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion works along a two-mile stretch yes­ter­day.

Parts of El Do­ra­do, Tacarigua and en­vi­rons served by the Cau­ra Wa­ter Treat­ment Plant will have a dis­rup­tion in their pipe-borne wa­ter sup­ply this week, as planned main­te­nance work is sched­uled to be car­ried out at the fa­cil­i­ty.