NEWS

Teens in court for assault on schoolmate

Weeks after a video of a group of students kicking and stomping on a schoolmate at the Princes Town West Secondary School was shared on social media, four students appeared in court yesterday charged with assault. They were arrested and charged on Tuesday, and taken before a master in the Children’s Court in Fyzabad. The charge read to the three 15-year-olds and one 16-year-old alleged that on September 27 they assaulted the student and wounded him. Read more here

POLITICS

Transport Minister: Sea Lots walkover 95 per cent complete

Minister of Works and Transport Rohan Sinanan Tuesday confirmed that most of the structure of the Sea Lots walkover is complete and while he was unable to give a definite date when it will be open to the public, he was optimistic that it will be soon. Speaking with Newsday during a break in tuesday’s sitting of the Lower House at Parliament, Sinanan said an estimated 95 per cent of the work had been completed and he was generally satisfied with it. Sinanan also said the construction took “a little longer than expected.” He said it cost an estimated $10 million and was 48 metres long, compared to the usual 38 metres. Read more here

Moonilal's A&V Drilling claim

Fol­low­ing is the ex­cerpt from the Hansard in which Oropouche East MP Roodal Mooni­lal linked Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley to a pur­port­ed fi­nan­cial trans­ac­tion in­volv­ing A&V Drilling. The al­le­ga­tion was made dur­ing his con­tri­bu­tion to the Bud­get de­bate on Tues­day night. But an­oth­er ma­jor mat­ter that emerged is this fa­mous or in­fa­mous AV Drilling. AV Drilling and that cri­sis that we faced there is not delinked from the cri­sis at Petrotrin. Con­nect the dots; $100 mil­lion, fake oil, sud­den­ly re­fin­ery closed—on­ly re­fin­ery clos­ing. Then “mind change”, en­tire Petrotrin clos­ing, all work­ers must go. “AV Drilling mat­ter” is the sub­ject be­fore a DPP and, we be­lieve, the po­lice. Read more here

BUSINESS

Growth in agro-processing

The country may not have enough land for farming, but Government is doing what it can to boost productivity of what is under cultivation, and expand the agriculture industry. This seemed to be the message from Agriculture Minister Clarence Rambharat at the opening of the headquarters for the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation in Agriculture (IICA) in Brechin Castle, Couva on Tuesday. Read more here

New look for a familiar brand

A new gen­er­a­tion of ba­by prod­ucts has been launched by John­son & John­son that fea­ture 90 per cent nat­ur­al in­gre­di­ents and a new de­sign. The rein­vent­ed range was un­veiled dur­ing a pre­sen­ta­tion host­ed by Smith Robert­son, lo­cal dis­trib­u­tors for John­son & John­son, in Aranguez on Tues­day. Denise James-Pa­tron, a reg­is­tered nurse and li­censed mid­wife, ex­plained that the new line is safe for ba­bies and the en­vi­ron­ment as they are free from all known al­ler­gens, as well as formalde­hyde, parabens, ph­tha­lates and sul­fates. Read more here

REGIONAL

Living On Past Glory - PM Says Jamaica Must Invest In Its Infrastructure

Jamaica's Prime Minister Andrew Holness said that the country is living on past glory and that it was important to invest in the country's infrastructure - including a new Parliament building - to show that as a people, we are serious about development. He was speaking at the opening of the Houses of Parliament Design Exhibition at the Jamaica Conference Centre in downtown Kingston yesterday, where five designs were selected for the final stage of the Houses of Parliament Design Competition. Read more here

INTERNATIONAL

Saudis discussed plan to lure Jamal Khashoggi to Saudi Arabia, US intercepts show

The US has intercepts of Saudi officials discussing a plan to lure journalist Jamal Khashoggi back to Saudi Arabia and detain him, according to a US official familiar with the intelligence. Khashoggi, a prominent Saudi journalist and critic of the regime, has been missing for more than a week after going to the Saudi consulate general in Istanbul to obtain wedding papers. Turkish officials privately believe he was killed at the consulate, an allegation denied by Saudi Arabia. The official said it is unclear if the original plan was to murder Khashoggi or if something went wrong at the consulate and that he might have been killed during an attempt to kidnap him. The official said that getting Khashoggi to the consulate appears to have been a backup plan, because he couldn't be persuaded to fly back to Saudi Arabia. Read more here

Astronauts escape malfunctioning Soyuz rocket

A US astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut were forced to make an emergency landing after their Russian Soyuz rocket malfunctioned en route to the International Space Station (ISS). Shortly after taking off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Nick Hague and Alexey Ovchinin reported a problem with the rocket's booster. The men were forced into a "ballistic descent", with their capsule landing a few hundred miles north of Baikonur. They have been picked up by rescuers. Read more here 

11th October 2018

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