Ex­perts in the en­er­gy sec­tor are warn­ing that T&T’s Drag­on gas agree­ment with Venezuela, up­on which T&T’s eco­nom­ic for­tunes de­pend, could be in jeop­ardy. They are now “un­cer­tain” about the fu­ture of the deal af­ter Don­ald Trump won Tues­day’s pres­i­den­tial elec­tions in the Unit­ed States, urg­ing T&T to adopt a wait-and-see ap­proach.

To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine says To­ba­go looks for­ward to work­ing with US Pres­i­dent-elect Don­ald Trump and his ad­min­is­tra­tion.

Busi­ness groups say Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert needs to fig­ure out how to make the process for ac­cess­ing for­eign ex­change (forex) for busi­ness pur­pos­es more trans­par­ent.

The PNM doesn’t need help from Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to deal with its in­ter­nal af­fairs, says for­mer min­is­ter Robert Le Hunte.

The Cou­va/Point Lisas Cham­ber of Com­merce (CPLCC) sees the de­ci­sion to redi­rect car­go ves­sels to the Port of Point Lisas (PPL) as a vi­able tem­po­rary so­lu­tion dur­ing the im­passe at the Port of Port-of-Spain (PPOS) at the start of the week.

Lawyers rep­re­sent­ing for­mer Fi­fa vice pres­i­dent Jack Warn­er have been grant­ed per­mis­sion to cross-ex­am­ine wit­ness­es for the Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al and Min­istry of Le­gal Af­fairs (AGLA) in his law­suit over dis­clo­sure of the le­gal fees paid by the State for still pend­ing ex­tra­di­tion pro­ceed­ings against him.

Busi­ness own­ers are fear­ful that if im­me­di­ate steps are not tak­en by the au­thor­i­ties, crime will cause the death of Port-of-Spain.

ACP Os­wain Subero, the re­cent­ly ap­point­ed head of the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) To­ba­go Di­vi­sion, met with re­li­gious lead­ers and Low­lands area rep­re­sen­ta­tive Wayne Clarke to dis­cuss crime and oth­er com­mu­ni­ty con­cerns.

Dr. Kei­th Row­ley, Prime Min­is­ter of Trinidad and To­ba­go, has con­grat­u­lat­ed Don­ald J. Trump on his vic­to­ry in the US Pres­i­den­tial Elec­tion.

Po­lice are at the scene of a mur­der at the cor­ner of Dun­can and Prince Streets, Port-of-Spain, fol­low­ing the shoot­ing death of one man, and the wound­ing of a woman.

Vot­ers had the chance this elec­tion to break the high­est glass ceil­ing in Amer­i­can pol­i­tics by elect­ing Ka­mala Har­ris the na­tion’s first fe­male pres­i­dent. In­stead, they re­turned Don­ald Trump to the White House, a come­back that re­lied on sig­nif­i­cant -- even some­what im­proved – sup­port among women.

The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion will be stag­ing an­oth­er of its ‘On the Pavers’ lunchtime con­certs on Fri­day—this time spot­light­ing Di­vali and East In­di­an cul­ture.