Princes Town MP Bar­ry Padarath is re­new­ing his call for Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Mar­vin Gon­za­les to re­veal the salaries of se­nior man­agers at the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA).

The Min­istry of Health (MoH) says it con­tin­ues to mon­i­tor the spread of Avian In­fluen­za A (HSN1), al­so known as the bird flu virus. The virus, which now af­fects hu­mans, has raised se­ri­ous con­cerns among health of­fi­cials across the world af­ter mul­ti­ple farm­work­ers in the Unit­ed States were in­fect­ed ear­li­er this month. All of the re­port­ed cas­es have been de­scribed as mild, and each per­son is be­lieved to have con­tract­ed the ill­ness from in­fect­ed live­stock or poul­try.

Me­chan­ic Anil Singh died af­ter his van plunged in­to a land­slip in Princes Town. De­spite suf­fer­ing se­vere in­juries, he made the ul­ti­mate sac­ri­fice by break­ing the wind­shield of the crashed van to save his trapped friends.

Lo­cal health and mos­qui­to-con­trol of­fi­cials have con­firmed the Cay­man Is­lands’ first im­port­ed case of Oropouche virus dis­ease. This dis­cov­ery has sparked calls for the pub­lic to bol­ster their de­fences against vec­tor-borne dis­eases.

Gov­ern­ment has been en­gaged with both the De­moc­rats and the Re­pub­li­cans in its at­tempts to se­cure T&T’s Drag­on Gas deal with Venezuela, de­clared Stu­art Young, Min­is­ter of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries when he ad­dressed the Ch­agua­nas Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce (CCIC) on Sat­ur­day. Young said this was be­ing done through T&T’s con­tin­ued en­gage­ments with par­ties in Wash­ing­ton (the Unit­ed States cap­i­tal).

Crime and the short­age of Forex for SMEs were the ma­jor fac­tors af­fect­ing busi­ness­es in 2024 ac­cord­ing to De­o­raj Ma­hase, the Pres­i­dent of the Cou­va Point Lisas Cham­ber of Com­merce (CPLCC). 

The much-an­tic­i­pat­ed mo­tion of no con­fi­dence Mo­tion of against Siparia May­or Dood­nath Mayrhoo will not be heard this month, as UNC Mon De­sir coun­cil­lor Deryck Bowrin failed to pro­vide the re­quired sev­en days’ no­tice. 

The Land Set­tle­ment Agency (LSA) has promised to in­ves­ti­gate the plight of mar­ket ven­dor Kr­ish­na Jagges­sar, whose home on Ram­lal Street, Pe­nal, is break­ing apart be­cause of land­slips. Re­spond­ing to Guardian Me­dia, a se­nior LSA of­fi­cial said: “The LSA is deeply sad­dened to learn of Mr Jagges­sar’s sit­u­a­tion and ac­knowl­edges the con­cerns raised.

In 2006, Pauline Bharat’s world shat­tered when her six-year-old son, Sean Luke, was vi­o­lent­ly mur­dered a stone’s throw from his Hen­ry Street home. The mur­der which at­tract­ed re­gion­al and lo­cal at­ten­tion was record­ed as one of the coun­try’s most bru­tal and bar­bar­ic.

Prof Rose-Marie Belle An­toine, prin­ci­pal of the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI), St Au­gus­tine, says talks are con­tin­u­ing to bring a speedy res­o­lu­tion to salary ne­go­ti­a­tions for staff at the in­sti­tu­tion.

Ken­neth Lewis, known in his prime as “King Go­ril­la” and “Hawk­eye,” died in a fire that de­stroyed his home in Pleas­antville yes­ter­day morn­ing.

A Cara­pichaima man was burnt be­yond recog­ni­tion af­ter his BMW flipped and burst in­to flames ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing.