Works and Trans­port Min­is­ter Ro­han Sinanan is ex­pect­ing nor­mal op­er­a­tions at the Port of Port-of-Spain to­day.

Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Nyan Gads­by-Dol­ly says al­most 4,000 school and book grants will be hand­ed out in the new year - 2025. She says this will fol­low the 20,200 grants dis­bursed in fis­cal 2024.

The House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives will this af­ter­noon de­bate the no­ti­fi­ca­tions for five mem­bers of the new Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion, in­clud­ing crim­i­nol­o­gist/at­tor­ney Dr Wen­dell C Wal­lace who is al­so a mem­ber of the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC).

Amid on­go­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to an al­leged as­sault on an im­mi­gra­tion of­fi­cer by an Air­ports Au­thor­i­ty (AA) es­tate con­sta­ble, the Es­tate Po­lice As­so­ci­a­tion (EPA) has come for­ward to de­fend the con­sta­ble, say­ing that he act­ed with­in the scope of his du­ties.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) an­nounced in a state­ment that the alert will be­gin at 1:30 pm to­day and end at 6:00 pm.

Trop­i­cal Storm Sara on Sun­day made land­fall in Be­lize, where fore­cast­ers ex­pect heavy rain to cause life-threat­en­ing flash flood­ing and mud­slides.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) is ad­vis­ing cus­tomers that the Point Lisas De­sali­na­tion Plant was restart­ed around 5:00 p.m. on Sat­ur­day 16 No­vem­ber, one day ahead of the orig­i­nal­ly sched­uled com­ple­tion time.

Pre­mier and Min­is­ter of Fi­nance Dr Na­talio Wheat­ley says ed­u­ca­tors in the British Vir­gin Is­lands (BVI) now rank among the high­est-paid in the re­gion fol­low­ing a re­cent com­pen­sa­tion re­view.

Rus­sia on Sun­day launched a mas­sive drone and mis­sile at­tack on Ukraine, de­scribed by of­fi­cials as the largest over the past months, tar­get­ing en­er­gy in­fra­struc­ture and killing civil­ians.

Last week at COP29 there was a ris­ing tide of voic­es call­ing for a de­car­bon­i­sa­tion of the ship­ping in­dus­try. On Wednes­day, more than 50 lead­ers across the spec­trum of the ship­ping val­ue chain, in­clud­ing e-fu­el pro­duc­ers, ves­sel and car­go own­ers, ports, and equip­ment man­u­fac­tur­ers, signed a call to ac­tion to ac­cel­er­ate the adop­tion of ze­ro-emis­sion fu­els. The ship­ping in­dus­try ac­counts for three per cent of an­nu­al green­house gas emis­sions.

The pen­sion­er fought and con­quered can­cer three times in four years. She is blind in her left eye and lives alone but still man­ages her dai­ly tasks of cook­ing, wash­ing and clean­ing.

Pop­u­lar maxi-taxi dri­ver and self-pro­claimed ho­mo­sex­u­al Ken­nty Mitchell was gunned down out­side his Ste Madeleine home on Fri­day night.