Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and for­mer prime min­is­ters Dr Kei­th Row­ley and Stu­art Young yes­ter­day ex­tend­ed con­do­lences fol­low­ing the death of for­mer Suri­name pres­i­dent Chan­drikaper­sad San­tokhi, pay­ing trib­ute to his ser­vice and lead­er­ship.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says it was the Spir­i­tu­al Shouter Bap­tist faith that saved her fa­ther’s life and in­spired the guid­ing prin­ci­ple she has car­ried through­out her own jour­ney—“put God in front and walk be­hind.”

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro has apol­o­gised for the role of po­lice of­fi­cers in pre­vent­ing Spir­i­tu­al Bap­tists from prac­tis­ing their faith for over three decades.

To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has urged Bap­tists not to for­get their call­ing in so­ci­ety.

Ac­ci­dent sur­vivor Yousuf Ho­sein is once again mak­ing an ap­peal to Gov­ern­ment to in­stall pro­tec­tive bar­ri­ers, af­ter an­oth­er fa­tal cross-me­di­an crash over the week­end.

Cre­ative bon­nets, hats and out­fits were on dis­play as the Flam­boy­ant Move­ment held its first East­er Bon­net com­pe­ti­tion at the Har­ris Prom­e­nade in San Fer­nan­do on Sat­ur­day.

A bush fire has de­stroyed one of Pe­nal’s most cher­ished land­mark homes, wip­ing out near­ly a cen­tu­ry of his­to­ry tied to the Tilluck­d­har­ry fam­i­ly, whose lega­cy has shaped gen­er­a­tions with­in the Pe­nal com­mu­ni­ty.

The Prime Min­is­ter must state a proac­tive re­form-based pol­i­cy on po­lice of­fi­cers in schools, go to work on re­al so­lu­tions to re­duce school vi­o­lence and stop the rant­i­ng, says Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment leader Pen­ny Beck­les.

There al­most wasn’t a de­c­la­ra­tion from the re­cent tenth sum­mit of the Com­mu­ni­ty of Latin Amer­i­ca and Caribbean States (CELAC), as there was a lot of di­vi­sion and Trinidad and To­ba­go and sev­er­al oth­er coun­tries dis­as­so­ci­at­ed them­selves from cer­tain as­pects of the de­c­la­ra­tion, ac­cord­ing to Bar­ba­dos Am­bas­sador to Cari­com, David Comis­siong.

Al­most two weeks af­ter Ce­dros crick­eter Rashme Deoa­jit was mur­dered, po­lice have ar­rest­ed a sus­pect.

Min­ing and Pro­cess­ing of Ag­gre­gates As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (MPATT) pres­i­dent Dan­ny Per­sad is call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to step in and fix the prob­lem of il­le­gal quar­ry­ing in the coun­try.

Agri­cul­ture and Fish­eries Min­is­ter Ravi Rati­ram has sound­ed the alarm over bil­lions of dol­lars bleed­ing from Trinidad and To­ba­go’s econ­o­my due to a decade-long de­cline in agri­cul­ture. And he has out­lined a plan to re­verse the trend through lo­cal pro­duc­tion and re­duced re­liance on im­ports.