Fac­ing strong back­lash for crit­i­cis­ing West­moor­ings res­i­dents who called for road re­pairs be­cause the con­stituen­cy vot­ed for the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) in the April 28 Gen­er­al Elec­tions, Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Hous­ing Phillip Ed­ward Alexan­der has sought to soft­en his po­si­tion, say­ing Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar will take care of the com­mu­ni­ty.

The Es­tate Po­lice As­so­ci­a­tion (EPA) is prepar­ing to ap­proach the Oc­cu­pa­tion­al Safe­ty and Health (OSH) Au­thor­i­ty in the com­ing weeks over what it de­scribes as se­ri­ous health and safe­ty breach­es at di­lap­i­dat­ed se­cu­ri­ty booths at schools across Trinidad, which it says place Na­tion­al Main­te­nance Train­ing and Se­cu­ri­ty Com­pa­ny (NMTS) of­fi­cers at risk.

WEST PALM BEACH, Flori­da (AP)—The US Coast Guard yes­ter­day pur­sued an­oth­er sanc­tioned oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea, as the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion ap­peared to be in­ten­si­fy­ing its tar­get­ing of such ves­sels con­nect­ed to the Venezue­lan gov­ern­ment.

The Gov­ern­ment’s move to stream­line ex­pens­es has led to sev­er­al chair­men and may­ors of Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) and Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM)-con­trolled re­gion­al cor­po­ra­tions dip­ping in­to their pock­ets to pro­vide Christ­mas meals and gifts for coun­cil mem­bers and ad­min­is­tra­tive staff.

For­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment Na­tion­al Youth Of­fi­cer Dane Wil­son has called on Ari­ma May­or Bal­li­ram Ma­haraj to say why he chose to at­tend a Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress fundrais­er Christ­mas din­ner in­stead of his Ari­ma Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion Christ­mas din­ner, adding that in his view, Ma­haraj’s ac­tions would war­rant re­fer­ral to the par­ty’s in­ves­ti­ga­tion com­mit­tee on dis­ci­pli­nary mat­ters.

The Col­lege of Sci­ence, Tech­nol­o­gy and Ap­plied Arts of Trinidad and To­ba­go has is­sued a state­ment re­gard­ing so­cial me­dia com­ments at­trib­uted to an em­ploy­ee.

Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment Bar­ry Padarath is­sued a state­ment to­day sup­port­ing Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar re­gard­ing her re­cent com­ments on re­gion­al se­cu­ri­ty and for­eign pol­i­cy. Padarath stat­ed the gov­ern­ment stands with Per­sad-Bisses­sar as she con­fronts na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty chal­lenges. He said the Prime Min­is­ter is demon­strat­ing that diplo­ma­cy in­volves bold lead­er­ship and strate­gic al­liances rather than pas­sive ob­ser­va­tion.

Prime Min­is­ter of An­tigua and Bar­bu­da, Gas­ton Browne, is­sued a state­ment to­day re­spond­ing to re­marks by Trinidad and To­ba­go Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar con­cern­ing CARI­COM and in­ter­na­tion­al re­la­tions. Prime Min­is­ter Browne said An­tigua and Bar­bu­da re­spects the sov­er­eign right of CARI­COM mem­bers to con­duct bi­lat­er­al re­la­tions but ex­pects the same re­spect for its own en­gage­ments with the Unit­ed States.

For­mer Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter and for­mer po­lit­i­cal leader of the Na­tion­al Trans­for­ma­tion Al­liance (NTA) Gary Grif­fith says re­ports that a sus­pect­ed US mil­i­tary base in To­ba­go would on­ly serve to fur­ther se­cure this coun­try from mil­i­tary ag­gres­sion, but felt that trans­paren­cy and clear mes­sag­ing was need­ed on the part of the gov­ern­ment.

An ac­ci­dent in St Joseph ear­ly on Sun­day morn­ing end­ed with the death of an uniden­ti­fied man and an­oth­er in crit­i­cal con­di­tion at hos­pi­tal, po­lice said.

For­mer Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has is­sued a state­ment crit­i­cis­ing Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, her gov­ern­ment, and re­cent po­si­tions on for­eign re­la­tions, re­gion­al en­gage­ment and na­tion­al sov­er­eign­ty.

In 2022, the air­line in­dus­try ac­count­ed for 2 per cent of the world’s car­bon emis­sions. But, for an in­dus­try with a stat­ed goal to achieve net ze­ro CO2 emis­sions by 2050, 2 per cent is two too much.