A San Juan busi­ness­man will have to wait a lit­tle over a week to learn the out­come of his law­suit over dam­age to his busi­ness al­leged­ly caused by a faulty sew­er pipeline.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley is not yet ready to say when he is step­ping down. When asked about his last day in of­fice, Row­ley sim­ply re­spond­ed, “Not yet,” be­fore get­ting in­to his ve­hi­cle and leav­ing.

A for­mer na­tion­al ath­lete has been or­dered to re­frain from ha­rass­ing, in­tim­i­dat­ing and as­sault­ing his moth­er and sis­ter over a prop­er­ty dis­pute.

“Ab­solute fool­ish­ness”—that is how Prime Min­is­ter Kei­th Row­ley de­scribed the heavy for­eign ex­change spend­ing on Car­ni­val cos­tumes. While he un­der­stands that peo­ple want to en­joy them­selves dur­ing Car­ni­val, he in­sists that cos­tumes are not in­vest­ments.

Two out of four new­ly ac­quired Smiths De­tec­tion heavy com­mer­cial ve­hi­cle scan­ners have of­fi­cial­ly been in­tro­duced to im­prove ef­fi­cien­cy and se­cu­ri­ty at the na­tion’s ports. The com­mis­sion­ing cer­e­mo­ny oc­curred yes­ter­day at the Port of Port-of-Spain, with the re­main­ing two set to be in­stalled at the Port of Point Lisas.

Works and Trans­port Min­is­ter Ro­han Sinanan is urg­ing the trade union rep­re­sent­ing port work­ers to set­tle ne­go­ti­a­tions with the Fi­nance Min­istry and Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer.

Amidst con­cerns over a loss of mem­bers from the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC), Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says she is still con­fi­dent in her par­ty’s chances of win­ning this year’s gen­er­al elec­tion.

The Ch­aguara­mas Mil­i­tary His­to­ry and Avi­a­tion Mu­se­um (CMHAM) has un­til Fri­day to va­cate the premis­es it oc­cu­pies at West­ern Main Road, Care­nage Bay. In a let­ter dat­ed Oc­to­ber 1, 2024, the Ch­aguara­mas De­vel­op­ment Au­thor­i­ty (CDA) with­drew its 30-year lease of­fer to the mu­se­um’s di­rec­tor, Lin­da Kelshall. She said the mu­se­um hous­es more than 500 years of his­to­ry.

Sev­er­al teenagers who at­tend­ed Hillview Col­lege’s Cloud 9 A Chill Foam Par­ty last week­end were rushed for med­ical at­ten­tion af­ter ex­pe­ri­enc­ing burn­ing and ir­ri­tat­ed eyes from the foam

Strong fumes from an oil spill in a riv­er forced the ear­ly dis­missal of the Ves­signy Sec­ondary School and the clo­sure of the beach fa­cil­i­ties yes­ter­day. A Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um am­bu­lance and a fire truck were seen parked out­side the school, but there were no con­firmed re­ports of stu­dents or res­i­dents be­ing tak­en for med­ical treat­ment. Her­itage has yet to re­veal the source of the leak, but per­son­nel have been de­ployed to be­gin con­tain­ing and clean­ing up the spill.

Prime Min­is­ter Mia Mot­t­ley Tues­day an­nounced a Cab­i­net reshuf­fle, hours af­ter her In­dus­try, In­no­va­tion, Sci­ence and Tech­nol­o­gy Min­is­ter Mar­sha Cad­dle re­signed, com­plain­ing that she had reached the point where “prin­ci­ples” no longer align.

Af­ter two months of ob­ser­va­tions, sci­en­tists have al­most ful­ly ruled out any threat from the as­ter­oid 2024 YR4, NASA and the Eu­ro­pean Space Agency said Tues­day.