Min­is­ter of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Khadi­jah Ameen has con­demned the as­sault of Port of Spain City Cor­po­ra­tion Al­der­man Wayne Grif­fith fol­low­ing the cir­cu­la­tion of a vi­ral video on so­cial me­dia.

The As­so­ci­a­tion of De­nom­i­na­tion­al Boards of Ed­u­ca­tion (ADBE) is ques­tion­ing why Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath has not met with the body to dis­cuss press­ing is­sues af­fect­ing schools, in­clud­ing staff short­ages, in­dis­ci­pline and sup­port for spe­cial needs stu­dents.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) has con­firmed that emer­gency re­sponse teams were de­ployed to­day af­ter a trans­mis­sion main rup­tured near Beetham Gar­dens dur­ing a clean­ing ex­er­cise be­ing car­ried out by an­oth­er agency.

Po­lice of­fi­cers have re­ceived in­for­ma­tion that a woman and her daugh­ter were tak­en to hos­pi­tal af­ter suf­fer­ing gun­shot in­juries dur­ing the in­ci­dent in Bel­mont this morn­ing.

Op­po­si­tion Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Port of Spain North/St Ann’s West, Stu­art Young, is call­ing for the im­me­di­ate res­ig­na­tions of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der and De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge fol­low­ing a triple killing in Bel­mont this morn­ing that claimed the life of a two-year-old child.

The iden­ti­ties of the three vic­tims of this morn­ing's triple mur­der in Bel­mont have been re­vealed.

Guardian Me­dia has con­firmed that a two-year-old child and two adult males were killed in a shoot­ing at 9 this morn­ing.

Pro­man says its glob­al foot­print is set to grow even larg­er af­ter the com­pa­ny and its Abu Dhabi-based part­ner se­cured US$2 bil­lion in fi­nanc­ing for what will be­come the Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates’ first world-scale methanol plant.

Amid her si­lence on the fate of Sen­a­tor Janelle John-Bates, Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) po­lit­i­cal leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has ac­cused To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine of “mute lead­er­ship.”

Reef tour op­er­a­tors and jet ski stake­hold­ers say the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly must ac­cept blame for last month’s fa­tal ac­ci­dent in Pi­geon Point, in which sev­en-year-old An­gel­i­ca Jo­gie was killed by a jet ski op­er­a­tor while play­ing in a bathing-on­ly zone.

While Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les re­mains mum on Janelle John-Bates’ sen­a­to­r­i­al fu­ture, Leader of the Op­po­si­tion Bench in the Sen­ate Dr Amery Browne is ask­ing for pa­tience, stress­ing the need for Beck­les to have time to make the best de­ci­sion.

Con­cerns are be­ing raised over the “mys­te­ri­ous” cir­cum­stances that led to the Gov­ern­ment abrupt­ly ad­journ­ing yes­ter­day’s Sen­ate sit­ting in un­der an hour.