Massy Gas Prod­ucts Ltd. says the video cir­cu­lat­ing show­ing vapour com­ing from the Phoenix Park plant last night was ex­cess ni­tro­gen was vent­ed dur­ing a rou­tine mo­bile tanker fill­ing op­er­a­tion.

An es­ti­mat­ed 12,000 peo­ple filled the streets of San Fer­nan­do for vi­brant J'ou­vert cel­e­bra­tions, as City Month fes­tiv­i­ties con­tin­ued in the South­ern City.

The Gov­ern­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go has com­mit­ted $10 mil­lion to fund re­search at The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI), St. Au­gus­tine Cam­pus. Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert made the an­nounce­ment dur­ing the 2024 Cam­pus Prin­ci­pal’s Re­search Awards and Con­fer­ence on Thurs­day.

Ch­agua­nas Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce (CCIC) pres­i­dent Bal­dath Ma­haraj has re­ject­ed Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert’s claim that the in­creased use of cred­it cards is con­tribut­ing to the for­eign ex­change (forex) cri­sis. Ma­haraj ar­gues that busi­ness­es are us­ing cred­it cards as a last re­sort to sur­vive the on­go­ing forex short­age. 

Princes Town MP Bar­ry Padarath is call­ing on the gov­ern­ment to pay its $2 bil­lion debt to T&TEC, say­ing if it did, T&TEC  would be in a much bet­ter po­si­tion to ad­dress its op­er­a­tions.

Bar­ba­dos' Min­istry of Health and Well­ness and the Unit­ed Na­tions Of­fice for Project Ser­vices (UN­OPS) have for­mal­ly signed an agree­ment aimed at strength­en­ing and im­prov­ing the is­land’s sole gen­er­al pub­lic hos­pi­tal.

The boos from a crowd want­i­ng more ac­tion were grow­ing again when Jake Paul dropped his gloves be­fore the fi­nal bell, and bowed to­ward 58-year-old Mike Tyson.

Shell has not made a fi­nal in­vest­ment de­ci­sion for the pro­duc­tion of the Drag­on gas field, as this de­ci­sion does not arise un­til var­i­ous stud­ies and re­ports are com­plet­ed.

The re­mu­ner­a­tion pack­age of­fered to Kei­throy Hal­l­i­day, the chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer des­ig­nate of the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA), in­cludes a $100,000 month­ly salary, $8,000 month­ly hous­ing al­lowance, a com­pa­ny ve­hi­cle, en­ter­tain­ment al­lowance, and oth­er perks, plus a per­for­mance in­cen­tive bonus on at­tain­ing all tar­gets.

The Prison Of­fi­cers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (POA) has ap­pealed for emer­gency fund­ing so the two ves­sels that ser­vice Car­rera Is­land, Ch­aguara­mas, can un­der­go an im­me­di­ate over­haul af­ter an ex­plo­sion land­ed an of­fi­cer and in­mate in hos­pi­tal.

Min­is­ter of Works and Trans­port Ro­han Sinanan says Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar should pay at­ten­tion to the re­gion­al cor­po­ra­tions un­der the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress.

Pe­nal/Debe Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion (PDRC) chair­man Gow­tam Ma­haraj has strong­ly con­demned Min­is­ter of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Faris Al-Rawi’s re­cent re­marks, call­ing them “in­sen­si­tive” to res­i­dents grap­pling with the dev­as­tat­ing floods that rav­aged the re­gion this week.