Es­tranged Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) Cu­mu­to-Man­zanil­la MP Dr Rai Rag­bir is await­ing word on the pasty’s screen­ing for his con­stituen­cy, and his col­league, Ch­agua­nas West MP Di­nesh Ram­bal­ly, says when he spoke out on thorny is­sues in the par­ty, he (Ram­bal­ly) knew ful­ly well that it may be at the ex­pense of any fu­ture con­sid­er­a­tion of re-se­lec­tion.

Ch­agua­nas West MP Di­nesh Ram­bal­ly is now claim­ing he is be­ing threat­ened by crim­i­nals who are ex­tort­ing busi­ness­es in Cen­tral Trinidad be­cause he is high­light­ing those is­sues.

A High Court judge has again ex­pressed his con­cern that er­rant po­lice of­fi­cers are not be­ing held ac­count­able for neg­li­gent be­hav­iour while tax­pay­ers con­tin­ue to pay thou­sands of dol­lars in lit­i­ga­tion.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the sud­den death of a four-month-old ba­by boy in Cou­va on Sun­day morn­ing.

Res­i­dents of Cot­ton Hill Road, Gas­par­il­lo took mat­ters in­to their own hands af­ter heavy rains trig­gered a ma­jor land­slip along the ma­jor ac­cess road, leav­ing the al­ready di­lap­i­dat­ed road­way com­plete­ly im­pass­able.

Econ­o­mist Dr In­dera Sage­wan says while she be­lieves the prime min­is­ter of a coun­try should not be earn­ing less than the CEO of a com­pa­ny, it is not the right time for Dr Kei­th Row­ley to ac­cept a pay in­crease.

The Med­ical Pro­fes­sion­als As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (MPATT) plans to meet with pub­lic-sec­tor doc­tors this week, in­clud­ing the North­west Doc­tors’ As­so­ci­a­tion (NW­DA).

With sev­er­al com­mu­ni­ties in cen­tral and south Trinidad af­fect­ed by a cut­back in pro­duc­tion at the Point Lisas De­sali­na­tion Plant, res­i­dents are call­ing on the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) to do bet­ter.

Af­ter the mur­der of his son last year and the dis­ap­pear­ance of his daugh­ter eight years ago, Frankie Ra­jku­mar is em­brac­ing every ounce of joy life throws at him, es­pe­cial­ly af­ter his grand­son Tor­res Sookdeo was se­lect­ed to be part of the na­tion­al un­der-13 crick­et team.

New Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) CEO Kei­throy Hal­l­i­day hit the ground run­ning over the week­end, start­ing work on Sun­day.

The Privy Coun­cil is ex­pect­ed to ad­vise to­day on whether its rul­ing in the mat­ter of a law­suit brought by for­mer chief mag­is­trate Mar­cia Ay­ers-Cae­sar will be re­served.

Of­fi­cials of a preschool in Cen­tral were left count­ing their loss­es, af­ter thieves made off with ap­prox­i­mate­ly $50,000 worth of equip­ment in a metic­u­lous­ly planned break-in ear­ly last Tues­day morn­ing.