The Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) Gov­ern­ment has been weak on eco­nom­ic per­for­mance and pro­vi­sion of safe­ty, and it ur­gent­ly needs to con­front key eco­nom­ic is­sues se­ri­ous­ly in Par­lia­ment’s up­com­ing Sec­ond Ses­sion, says for­mer UNC min­is­ter Vas­ant Bharath.

Amer­i­can rap­per Jef­frey “Ja Rule” Atkins briefly stirred and flirt­ed with con­tro­ver­sy dur­ing Sat­ur­day night’s R&B Brunch con­cert at the Queen’s Park Oval, Port-of-Spain, af­ter us­ing sev­er­al ex­ple­tives on­stage.

Less than two months be­fore the En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty (EMA) grant­ed a Cer­tifi­cate of En­vi­ron­men­tal Clear­ance (CEC) to Su­pe­ri­or Ho­tels Ltd for a ma­jor project at Rocky Point, To­ba­go, two ex­perts con­sult­ed by the EMA deemed the 200-room ho­tel and re­sort “fun­da­men­tal­ly in­com­pat­i­ble” with the site.

More than a month af­ter a string of break-ins in­to parked cars and rob­beries trig­gered a mul­ti-pronged po­lice re­sponse near the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah and the La­dy Chan­cel­lor Road, St Clair, po­lice and jog­gers have re­port­ed that there has been a no­tice­able de­cline in crime in the area.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce (T&T Cham­ber) has called for con­tin­ued ad­her­ence to sound gov­er­nance and fis­cal man­age­ment prac­tices at the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NGC), fol­low­ing re­cent pub­lic dis­cus­sion on the com­pa­ny’s cred­it rat­ing arrange­ments.

Sev­er­al res­i­dents in Val­sayn North say they are con­cerned about the dif­fer­ent strate­gies now be­ing used by crim­i­nals to find vic­tims, amidst sev­er­al re­ports of lar­ce­nies, rob­beries and even home in­va­sions in the com­mu­ni­ty for the year thus far.

The World Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion de­clared the Ebo­la dis­ease out­break caused by a rare virus in Con­go and neigh­bor­ing Ugan­da a pub­lic health emer­gency of in­ter­na­tion­al con­cern on Sun­day, af­ter more than 300 sus­pect­ed cas­es and 88 deaths.

Far­ley Au­gus­tine has called for ac­count­abil­i­ty and a thor­ough in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the dis­ap­pear­ance of two-year-old An­ge­lo To­bias-Plaza, who was re­port­ed miss­ing on Mon­day last week, say­ing To­ba­go is “hurt­ing” as the child re­mains miss­ing.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice has main­tained its High Wind Alert at yel­low lev­el as breezy to windy con­di­tions con­tin­ue across Trinidad and To­ba­go and sur­round­ing wa­ters.

Venezuela’s gov­ern­ment said Sat­ur­day it de­port­ed a close al­ly of Nicolás Maduro fac­ing sev­er­al crim­i­nal in­ves­ti­ga­tions in the U.S. less than three years af­ter the busi­ness­man was par­doned by Pres­i­dent Joe Biden as part of a pris­on­er swap.

The Of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (ODPP) says it is cur­rent­ly un­able to as­sign pros­e­cu­tors to new­ly planned crim­i­nal courts due to acute staffing short­ages and ex­ist­ing work­load pres­sures.

By set­ting up Bryan Mbeu­mo for Unit­ed’s third goal in its 3-2 win over Not­ting­ham For­est on Sun­day, Fer­nan­des moved on­to 20 as­sists — equal with the record held joint­ly by Thier­ry Hen­ry (2002-03) and Kevin De Bruyne (2019-20).