Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um has clamped a hy­dro­car­bon leak near the Moru­ga Sec­ondary School that trig­gered air qual­i­ty test­ing and emer­gency re­sponse mea­sures late last month.

Venezue­lan Jus­tice Min­is­ter Dios­da­do Ca­bel­lo, speak­ing on Wednes­day night dur­ing his tele­vi­sion pro­gramme Con El Ma­zo Dan­do, said a Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­al was in­volved in “ter­ror­ist ac­tiv­i­ties” aimed at desta­bil­is­ing Venezuela on Mon­day.

The De­fence Min­istry has ini­tial­ly re­ject­ed claims by Venezuela Pres­i­dent Nico­las Maduro that Colom­bian para­mil­i­tary groups have in­fil­trat­ed east­ern Venezuela via Trinidad and To­ba­go.

The com­pa­ny be­hind the flopped con­cert in­volv­ing Ja­maican artiste Adid­ja “Vy­bz Kar­tel” Palmer says the near­ly US$1 mil­lion US need­ed for his ser­vices was ac­quired le­git­i­mate­ly.

Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands that Ay­ers-Cae­sar took up du­ties in the Ju­di­cia­ry last month, weeks af­ter the Unit­ed King­dom-based Privy Coun­cil de­liv­ered judg­ment in the fi­nal ap­peal of her law­suit over be­ing pres­sured by Ju­di­cial and Le­gal Ser­vices Com­mis­sion (JLSC) and its chair­man, Chief Jus­tice Ivor Archie, in­to re­sign­ing al­most eight years ago.

Min­is­ter of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries Dr Roodal Mooni­lal has re­fused to di­vulge if the re­cent­ly re­scind­ed Of­fice of For­eign As­sets Con­trol (OFAC) li­cences were dis­cussed with Unit­ed States (US) rep­re­sen­ta­tives.

The To­ba­go Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (TRHA) is deny­ing re­ports that it has launched an in­ter­nal in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the con­tro­ver­sial pro­cure­ment of am­bu­lances, but Guardian Me­dia has been told the au­thor­i­ty will break its si­lence on the mat­ter soon.

In­cum­bent Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) La­dy Vice Chair Camille Robin­son-Reg­is is rub­bish­ing claims that she’s not in sup­port of Pen­ne­lope Beck­les.

The Peo­ple’s Cham­pi­ons, one of the slates con­test­ing the Peo­ple Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) in­ter­nal elec­tion, will launch their cam­paign this evening.

Thou­sands of bar­rels of what is be­lieved to be used en­gine oil have been dis­cov­ered il­le­gal­ly dumped in the hull of an aban­doned long­lin­er ship in an area known as the “Grave­yard” off Ch­aguara­mas

San Fer­nan­do May­or Robert Par­ris is urg­ing any­one with knowl­edge of fi­nan­cial wrong­do­ing at the San Fer­nan­do City Cor­po­ra­tion (SFCC) to speak up, fol­low­ing se­ri­ous al­le­ga­tions made by Min­is­ter of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Khadi­jah Ameen.

Ven­dors who refuse to take up le­gal spots at the Fruit Court along Har­ris Prom­e­nade will have to leave San Fer­nan­do to con­tin­ue ply­ing their trade.