Min­is­ter of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Khadi­jah Ameen has warned Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment rep­re­sen­ta­tives that they have a ma­jor role to play as the coun­try grap­ples with the ef­fects of cli­mate change.

In an at­tempt to ex­plain his pres­ence at the head of­fice of his for­mer min­istry and to clear his name of al­leged mis­con­duct, Fitzger­ald Hinds now claims he was asked to vis­it the build­ing sole­ly to col­lect a cheque.

The Gov­ern­ment is ac­tive­ly work­ing to set­tle out­stand­ing pay­ments to sup­pli­ers in the health sec­tor, says Dr Rishad Seecher­an, Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Health and Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Ca­roni East.

For­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has pushed back against what he calls a cam­paign of “mis­in­for­ma­tion and po­lit­i­cal re­vi­sion­ism”, de­fend­ing his ad­min­is­tra­tion’s han­dling of the UWI Debe cam­pus, To­ba­go au­ton­o­my, and the school build­ing pro­gramme.

A Va­len­cia man was shot dead yes­ter­day morn­ing by men who claimed they were po­lice of­fi­cers.

The Miss World Trinidad and To­ba­go Fran­chise has ex­tend­ed its con­grat­u­la­tions to the coun­try’s rep­re­sen­ta­tive An­na-Lise Nan­ton who se­cured a place among the Top 40 in the com­pe­ti­tion.

Two days af­ter a Dun­can Street man was spot­ted throw­ing con­tra­band in­to the Port-of-Spain Prison, he was caught again at­tempt­ing to throw more items in­to the fa­cil­i­ty yes­ter­day.

Fol­low­ing the shoot­ing death of a pen­sion­er in To­ba­go by his neigh­bour, Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der says the pro­posed stand-your-ground leg­is­la­tion will ad­dress pos­si­ble abus­es.

The fa­ther of Bar­ba­di­an singer, Ri­han­na, has died. It is un­der­stood Ronald Fen­ty passed away on Sat­ur­day morn­ing at the age of 70, ac­cord­ing to Star­com Net­work News, a ra­dio sta­tion lo­cat­ed in Bar­ba­dos.

The Ch­agua­nas Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce (CCIC) is call­ing on the gov­ern­ment to take ur­gent steps to re­store the Li­on House, an icon­ic sym­bol of In­di­an in­den­ture­ship lo­cat­ed in Ch­agua­nas. The his­toric struc­ture, which has fall­en in­to dis­re­pair since the death of its own­er Suren Capildeo in 2016, was the home of No­bel Lau­re­ate Sir V.S. Naipaul and promi­nent­ly fea­tured in his nov­el A House for Mr Biswas.

Five per­sons were ar­rest­ed and five firearms and quan­ti­ties of am­mu­ni­tion and nar­cotics seized, by of­fi­cers dur­ing an­ti-crime op­er­a­tions con­duct­ed across the coun­try on Fri­day.

Two sus­pects were ar­rest­ed and quan­ti­ties of cannabis and ec­sta­sy seized by of­fi­cers dur­ing an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es con­duct­ed in the North­ern and South West­ern Di­vi­sions this week.