The fran­tic search for a miss­ing tod­dler in To­ba­go turned in­to frus­tra­tion and anger yes­ter­day as ten­sions flared.

Holy Name Con­vent, Port-of-Spain, is break­ing its si­lence about the al­le­ga­tions against its prin­ci­pal Sis­ter Re­nee Hall, an­nounc­ing a full, in­de­pen­dent in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

Of­fi­cers from the San Fer­nan­do Po­lice Sta­tion have launched an in­ves­ti­ga­tion af­ter a woman re­port­ed that she was im­pris­oned by a man from Feb­ru­ary 27 to May 6 and sex­u­al­ly as­sault­ed and robbed.

The Sen­ate yes­ter­day adopt­ed a spe­cial re­port rec­om­mend­ing the re­moval of Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Janelle John-Bates from the Joint Se­lect Com­mit­tee (JSC) on Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty, deep­en­ing the fall­out from the con­tro­ver­sy sur­round­ing ed­its to a par­lia­men­tary wit­ness state­ment sub­mit­ted to the Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion and Ap­pro­pri­a­tions Com­mit­tee (PAAC).

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has dou­bled down on her crit­i­cism of Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les for what she de­scribed as a fail­ure to take de­ci­sive ac­tion re­gard­ing the fu­ture of Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Janelle John-Bates, as con­tro­ver­sy con­tin­ues to swirl over the sen­a­tor’s res­ig­na­tion and her role on key par­lia­men­tary over­sight com­mit­tees.

Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Faris Al-Rawi has been tem­porar­i­ly re­moved from the Sen­ate’s Priv­i­leges Com­mit­tee pend­ing the out­come of the in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­volv­ing him­self and fel­low Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Janelle John-Bates.

As the chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer (CEO) and line min­is­ter for Land­mark­TT Prop­er­ties Ltd con­tin­ue to re­main silent on al­le­ga­tions of breach­ing pro­cure­ment law, al­le­ga­tions re­main that the new­ly formed state en­ter­prise in­ten­tion­al­ly tried to re­strict com­pe­ti­tion and ex­clude qual­i­fied con­trac­tors.

Leader of Gov­ern­ment Busi­ness Bar­ry Padarath has fired back at Op­po­si­tion Chief Whip Mar­vin Gon­za­les, dis­miss­ing al­le­ga­tions that the Gov­ern­ment is fail­ing to ac­count to the pop­u­la­tion as “noth­ing short of a de­flec­tion.”

As 20 new radar speed guns have been added to the TTPS law en­force­ment ar­se­nal, Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro says he is op­ti­mistic the de­vices will sig­nif­i­cant­ly as­sist po­lice in tack­ling reck­less dri­vers.

Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe says while nurs­es’ ac­tions has not im­pact­ed health­care, Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ties (RHAs) have ini­ti­at­ed their con­tin­gency plans to ad­dress any pos­si­ble fall­out.

Amid re­peat­ed calls for the pub­lic to avoid meet­ing strangers in un­fa­mil­iar neigh­bour­hoods for fi­nan­cial trans­ac­tions, Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro is again urg­ing ven­dors and po­ten­tial cus­tomers to be mind­ful of the tricks crim­i­nals use to iden­ti­fy and tar­get vic­tims.

The mur­der count in­creased yes­ter­day fol­low­ing the killing of a San Juan man just af­ter lunch.