Po­lice seized a firearm, nine rounds of am­mu­ni­tion and a quan­ti­ty of sus­pect­ed Ec­sta­sy dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in Diego Mar­tin on Tues­day.

The Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) is set to re­launch its pro­cure­ment ex­er­cise for the con­struc­tion of thou­sands of hous­ing units, Hous­ing Min­is­ter David Lee has said.

Amid com­plaints from mem­bers of the TT De­fence Force (TTDF) Re­serves over the non-pay­ment of salaries, the De­fence Force has promised to de­liv­er cheques of out­stand­ing salaries to banks by to­day (Wednes­day).

The Com­mis­sion of In­quiry, ap­point­ed to in­ves­ti­gate the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing the Ju­ly 18 cap­siz­ing of the M/V Bari­ma that re­sult­ed in the deaths of more than 100 peo­ple, says it is com­mit­ted to con­duct­ing its work “in­de­pen­dent­ly, im­par­tial­ly, thor­ough­ly and ex­pe­di­tious­ly, with­out fear or favour”, and in ac­cor­dance with its terms of man­date.

The Al­liance of Small Is­land States (AO­SIS) is warn­ing gov­ern­ments not to treat the pos­si­bil­i­ty of glob­al tem­per­a­tures ex­ceed­ing 1.5°C as a rea­son to aban­don the cli­mate tar­get, fol­low­ing the re­lease of a new Unit­ed Na­tions En­vi­ron­ment Pro­gramme re­port on lim­it­ing tem­per­a­ture over­shoot.

A 19-year-old Va­len­cia man was ar­rest­ed af­ter po­lice seized a 9mm pis­tol loaded with sev­en rounds of am­mu­ni­tion dur­ing a road check op­er­a­tion on Tues­day night.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has again de­scribed Trinidad and To­ba­go as a “law­less dump,” urg­ing “crim­i­nals and bel­liger­ent in­di­vid­u­als” to stay home if they can’t be­have so law-abid­ing cit­i­zens can en­joy them­selves.

Al­le­ga­tions of gang af­fil­i­a­tion, in­tim­i­da­tion, ex­tor­tion and threats have prompt­ed a ma­jor shake-up at the North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA).

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has brushed aside crit­i­cism over her de­ci­sion to is­sue a sep­a­rate In­de­pen­dence Day mes­sage to Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) sup­port­ers, de­scrib­ing the back­lash as “fake out­rage” and in­sist­ing she will con­tin­ue to de­fend the par­ty’s mem­ber­ship.

For­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley is call­ing on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to apol­o­gise to the na­tion over an In­de­pen­dence Day mes­sage to Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) sup­port­ers, ac­cus­ing her of pro­mot­ing racial di­vi­sion and threat­en­ing the coun­try’s so­cial har­mo­ny.

Prime Min­is­ter and Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has dis­missed sug­ges­tions that her re­cent In­de­pen­dence Day mes­sage sig­nalled an im­pend­ing con­test for the lead­er­ship of her par­ty, de­scrib­ing that in­ter­pre­ta­tion as in­cor­rect.

So­cial ac­tivist First Wave Move­ment leader Umar Ab­dul­lah is call­ing on Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro to in­ves­ti­gate and pros­e­cute Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar for sedi­tion over re­marks made dur­ing her In­de­pen­dence Day ad­dress.