Min­is­ter of So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices Don­na Cox says new fa­cil­i­ties are be­ing put in place for lo­cals who live abroad and ben­e­fit from pen­sion pay­ments from this coun­try.

Min­is­ter of Health Ter­rence Deyals­ingh is urg­ing the pub­lic, par­tic­u­lar­ly per­sons fre­quent­ing and liv­ing in forest­ed ar­eas to take the nec­es­sary pre­cau­tions to pro­tect them­selves against in­fec­tions from malar­ia. 

The Con­gress of the Peo­ple (COP) will con­test St Ann’s East and Port-of-Spain South in the up­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tion as part of a new coali­tion with the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC).

The Gov­ern­ment of Do­mini­ca has of­fi­cial­ly launched the Na­tion­al Cannabis Ad­vi­so­ry Com­mit­tee, a ma­jor step to­ward build­ing a vi­able, sus­tain­able, and well-reg­u­lat­ed cannabis in­dus­try.

Tor­na­does and vi­o­lent winds flat­tened homes and ripped apart build­ings from Ok­la­homa to In­di­ana in a se­ries of storms ex­pect­ed to bring record-set­ting rains and life-threat­en­ing flash floods across the na­tion’s mid­sec­tion in the com­ing days.

Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young has warned that if the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) wins the up­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tion, the TT dol­lar could be de­val­ued to US$1 = TT$15.

WASH­ING­TON (AP) — Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump yes­ter­day de­clared a 10% base­line tax on im­ports from all coun­tries and high­er tar­iff rates on dozens of na­tions that run trade sur­plus­es with the Unit­ed States, threat­en­ing to up­end much of the ar­chi­tec­ture of the glob­al econ­o­my and trig­ger broad­er trade wars.

Min­is­ter of Trade and In­dus­try Paula Gopee-Scoon says she will be mon­i­tor­ing how the 10% tar­iffs US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump levied on T&T yes­ter­day will af­fect the coun­try go­ing for­ward.

Op­po­si­tion Leader and Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress po­lit­i­cal leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is deny­ing claims by the Na­tion­al Trans­for­ma­tion Al­liance (NTA) that her par­ty is en­gag­ing in “po­lit­i­cal pla­gia­rism dis­guised as pol­i­cy.”

Fired Strate­gic Ser­vices Agency di­rec­tor re­tired ma­jor Ro­get Best has de­fend­ed his ap­pear­ance at the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress’ (UNC) Gen­er­al Elec­tion Com­mu­ni­ty Meet­ing in Debe on Tues­day night.

In­cum­bent Cou­va South MP Rudranath In­dars­ingh, who was not se­lect­ed to con­test his seat in the up­com­ing Gen­er­al Elec­tion, was praised by his col­leagues for his loy­al­ty and dis­ci­pline.

Three econ­o­mists have warned that the Op­po­si­tion’s promise to start pub­lic sec­tor wage ne­go­ti­a­tions at no less than ten per cent might not be fi­nan­cial­ly vi­able.