Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion Min­is­ter Allyson West is mak­ing it clear that there is no short­age of jobs avail­able with­in the pub­lic sec­tor.

Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer (CPO) Dr Daryl Din­di­al is deny­ing claims by some trade union lead­ers that his meet­ing with some of them on Thurs­day was bad in­dus­tri­al re­la­tions prac­tice.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has ac­cused the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress of not want­i­ng to see the Petrotrin re­fin­ery in Pointe-a-Pierre up and run­ning, la­belling the par­ty as “un­pa­tri­ot­ic louts” for its at­tack on In­di­an busi­ness­man Navin Jin­dal, which led to him pulling out of a bid for the re­fin­ery.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has dis­cussed na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty with Sin­ga­pore and has been among Cari­com lead­ers push­ing for repa­ra­tions for slav­ery as he par­tic­i­pates in the Com­mon­wealth Heads of Gov­ern­ment Meet­ing (CHOGM) in Apia, Samoa.

TTPS Ex­tor­tion Task Force head, As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Richard Smith, says his unit has re­ceived 28 re­ports of ex­tor­tion so far from busi­ness peo­ple and cit­i­zens across the coun­try.

Mourn­ers who at­tend­ed the fu­ner­al for mur­dered Cpl Shel­don Pe­ter­son yes­ter­day ex­pressed their anger that he was not giv­en a mil­i­tary send-off.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) is once again re­as­sur­ing the pub­lic that it will do every­thing in its pow­er to main­tain a re­li­able elec­tric­i­ty sup­ply through­out the coun­try.

Po­lice have launched an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to a re­port of an as­sault at the Siparia West Sec­ondary School, where three stu­dents al­leged­ly at­tacked a Form Two stu­dent on Wednes­day, leav­ing him bruised and bat­tered.

Two weeks af­ter a dri­ve-by shoot­ing out­side the South East Port-of-Spain Sec­ondary School (SE­PoSS) forced its clo­sure for a day, school stake­hold­ers are send­ing let­ters to sev­er­al min­istries ask­ing that vi­o­lence near the school be ad­dressed once and for all.

Al­though Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) po­lit­i­cal leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is yet to speak on the is­sue, po­lit­i­cal an­a­lysts are of­fer­ing dif­fer­ing views on how the par­ty could ben­e­fit from the pos­si­ble re­turn of for­mer stal­warts.

New­ly ap­point­ed Chan­cel­lor of the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI), Dr Do­dridge D Miller, says pur­su­ing a glob­al strat­e­gy is nec­es­sary for the suc­cess of the in­sti­tu­tion and, by ex­ten­sion, its grad­u­ates.

Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) grad­u­ate Faith Wil­son, who suf­fers from cere­bral pal­sy (CP), says the re­gion­al in­sti­tu­tion made com­plet­ing her Mas­ter’s De­gree pos­si­ble by pro­vid­ing the as­sis­tance she need­ed.