Ch­agua­nas May­or Faaiq Mo­hammed says he is sup­port­ive of the Cen­tral bor­ough pos­si­bly at­tain­ing city sta­tus, not­ing that such a ti­tle was fit­ting as the com­mu­ni­ty has grown in terms of size and con­tri­bu­tion to na­tion­al de­vel­op­ment.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les yes­ter­day ac­cused the Gov­ern­ment of try­ing to “steal an elec­tion” by re­draw­ing mu­nic­i­pal bound­aries, de­scrib­ing its plan to add three cor­po­ra­tions in Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) strong­holds and re­duce the ge­o­graph­i­cal size of three Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM)-con­trolled cor­po­ra­tions as “un­be­liev­able and un­ac­cept­able.”

Two days af­ter re­sign­ing as Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) To­ba­go Coun­cil chair­man and re­nounc­ing her mem­ber­ship, Nicole Hen­ry-Wal­dron has changed her mind. In a let­ter to PNM gen­er­al sec­re­tary Fos­ter Cum­mings, Hen­ry-Wal­dron said up­on re­flec­tion, she has de­cid­ed to con­tin­ue con­tribut­ing to the par­ty and to the de­vel­op­ment of the coun­try.

The Court of Ap­peal has resched­uled the hear­ing in the mat­ter in­volv­ing Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Hous­ing Phillip Alexan­der and Pa­tri­ot­ic Front po­lit­i­cal leader Mick­ela Pan­day, af­ter an ob­jec­tion was raised to the pro­ceed­ings be­ing livestreamed.

Arch­bish­op Robert Ri­vas lived his priest­hood and epis­co­pal min­istry with an un­wa­ver­ing be­lief that “God is good all the time,” Do­mini­can Pri­or Fa­ther John Har­ris said yes­ter­day.

Po­lice are search­ing for a His­pan­ic woman who was kid­napped dur­ing a home in­va­sion in La Ro­maine on Sun­day.

The griev­ing moth­er of 17-year-old Tris­t­ian Stephen, who was shot dead on Sun­day, has de­nied re­ports cir­cu­lat­ing on so­cial me­dia that her son was killed in a ware­house fol­low­ing an al­ter­ca­tion with his em­ploy­er.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Man­u­fac­tur­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTMA) is mourn­ing the death of Sean Roach of Langston Roach In­dus­tries Lim­it­ed, de­scrib­ing his pass­ing as a pro­found loss to the coun­try’s man­u­fac­tur­ing and busi­ness com­mu­ni­ties.

Two days af­ter re­sign­ing as PNM To­ba­go chair­man and quit­ting the par­ty, Nicole Hen­ry-Wal­dron has changed her mind. In a let­ter to the PNM To­ba­go ex­ec­u­tive on Sat­ur­day, Hen­ry-Wal­dron said up­on re­flec­tion, she has de­cid­ed to con­tin­ue con­tribut­ing to the par­ty and to the de­vel­op­ment of the coun­try.

Trinidad and To­ba­go may be ex­pe­ri­enc­ing a hot spell, but that will not stop parts of the coun­try from fac­ing a risk of heavy rain­fall and flood­ing this af­ter­noon.

Three weeks away from To­ba­go car­ni­val, Pan Trin­ba­go has de­cid­ed to boy­cott the an­nu­al fes­ti­val.

Af­ter al­most a year of idling its Point Lisas ni­tro­gen plant, Nu­trien is shut­ting down its Trinidad op­er­a­tions, with staff be­ing in­formed to­day that re­trench­ment is about to be­gin.