Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath has de­nied any Gov­ern­ment in­ter­fer­ence in the can­cel­la­tion of a Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Work­ers Union (CWU) protest out­side TSTT House yes­ter­day, in­stead ac­cus­ing CWU Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al Joanne Ogeer of en­gag­ing in base­less spec­u­la­tion over the de­ci­sion.

Sev­er­al cur­rent and for­mer par­lia­men­tar­i­ans named by the In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion for out­stand­ing de­c­la­ra­tions say they have since moved to bring their fil­ings up to date.

The En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty (EMA) says there is noth­ing im­prop­er about the work be­ing car­ried out at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah to ac­com­mo­date this year’s In­de­pen­dence Day pa­rade.

Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Hous­ing Phillip Alexan­der yes­ter­day called on the Op­po­si­tion to ex­plain what he de­scribed as spe­cial treat­ment al­leged­ly giv­en to a con­trac­tor in the award of a mul­ti-mil­lion-dol­lar Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) project.

To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) Sec­re­tary of Youth Em­pow­er­ment Keigon De­noon is urg­ing Trini­bad artistes to use their mu­sic to pro­mote pos­i­tive mes­sages.

The En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty (EMA) says it has found no breach­es of en­vi­ron­men­tal re­quire­ments in works be­ing car­ried out at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah ahead of In­de­pen­dence Day cel­e­bra­tions, as crit­i­cism grows over the gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to re­lo­cate the pa­rade.

Two dogs were poi­soned on Thurs­day dur­ing a home in­va­sion in broad day­light at Tur­tle Cot­tage, Black Rock.

Pan on D’Av­enue XII could be back on, just hours af­ter or­gan­is­ers an­nounced its can­cel­la­tion.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der says that “an ar­rest is im­mi­nent”, as in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue in­to sev­er­al bomb threats across Trinidad ear­li­er this week.

Gravedig­gers placed the first four vic­tims in cin­derblock plots while a small group of lo­cals watched at a ceme­tery on the tip of North Africa.

The In­ter-Amer­i­can De­vel­op­ment Bank (IDB) says the out­look for Guyana is still high­ly un­cer­tain, giv­en per­sis­tent geopo­lit­i­cal ten­sions that con­tin­ue to push up in­ter­na­tion­al oil prices.

The for­mal no­tice of re­vo­ca­tion by Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der of the Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) against Do­minic Hadeed and Genevieve Hadeed has been pub­lished in the of­fi­cial Gazette.