Irish telecommunications company Digicel is leading a bidding war to be the exclusive sponsor of this year’s Carnival Parade of the Bands—which would be a first if an agreement is reached with the National Carnival Commission (NCC), the Guardian reported.

JAMAAT-al-Muslimeen leader Yasin Abu Bakr called an Islamic scholar to the witness box yesterday, the Express reported.

Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Geoffrey Henderson has issued a warning to the media to not publish any evidence that might influence the course of high profile cases, the Express reported.

Lawyers for Opposition Leader Basdeo Panday are this morning challenging a ruling by Chief Magistrate Sherman McNicolls that the charges of filing false declarations to the Integrity Commission are proper, and that he has jurisdiction to hear them, the Express reported.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (Reuters) - The first cargo of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) from Atlantic LNG's newest production train in Trinidad and Tobago was loaded this week for delivery to BP (BP.L: Quote, Profile, Research) in Britain, BP Trinidad and Tobago (BPTT) said on Tuesday.

BPTT said the cargo from Atlantic LNG's $1.3 billion (737,000 pound) Train 4, one of the world's largest liquefaction plants, was to be shipped to BP's regasification capacity at the Isle of Grain.

Trinidad and Tobago has emerged since the construction of Atlantic LNG's first train a decade ago as a major world supplier of LNG. Atlantic LNG is the single largest supplier of LNG to the United States.

(Oil & Gas Journal - Americas) - Canadian Superior Energy Inc. of Calgary, Alberta, Canada says its year-end 2005 exit production rate was 3,470 boe/d, up 27% from the production rate at the beginning of the year.

Prior to year-end 2005, the company's Wellsite Geohazard Field Survey Work and Biological Baseline Survey Work on its "Intrepid" block 5(c), approximately 96 km (60 miles) off the east coast of Trinidad, was completed in anticipation of its first exploration well planned for drilling on this block in 2Q 2006.

While Energy Minister Eric Williams spent the morning in church yesterday as he faces seven charges for allegedly receiving a total of $75,000 in bribes in 2003 concerning an ongoing seismic project in Pt Galeota, the man who confessed to allegedly bribing two government ministers plans to migrate.

Neither PNM Councillor Dansam Dhansook, the media nor the Director of Public Prosecutions seem to have asked the question whether Dhansook did anything wrong and should be charged too. Neither does anyone seem to be concerned about how a PNM councillor can afford to have sent some of his children abroad to live already and plans to do the same with the rest of his family. Click "read more" to get the full report from the Trinidad Guardian.

UWI Principal Dr. Bhoe Tewarie called on the silent majority to take action to stop crime in order to stop the brain drain to save our country last night at the Greater Chaguanas Chamber of Industry and Commerce's annual dinner. He said crime was scaring away young people and the entrepreneurial class who are increasingly migrating.

St Clair police are investigating a robbery which took place at the Alexander Street, St Clair, office of Education Minister Hazel Manning.

Investigators say they are working along the lines that the $5,000 robbery could be an inside job. They have so far questioned several employees.

FOR the first four days of 2006 there have been six murders in Trinidad and Tobago.

By January 4 last year, five murders had been recorded.

Baby Timothy Cumberbatch was left by his abductors on the steps of a house in Charles Street, Gasparillo, yesterday, some 24 hours after he was snatched from his mother's arms.