Kel­lon Beard cried yes­ter­day, as he re­called feel­ing aban­doned by his fa­ther, who turned away from him as he was be­ing at­tacked by a group of young men on Mon­day while walk­ing to his home at Sea Lots West.

The fam­i­ly of a prison of­fi­cer is liv­ing in fear fol­low­ing a dead­ly rob­bery at their home on Car­ni­val Mon­day in which the of­fi­cer’s fa­ther was shot in the head and killed. 

A one-and-a-half-year-old girl suf­fered a frac­tured skull af­ter she fell 11 feet off a ban­nis­ter while at her babysit­ter’s home in San Fer­nan­do.

Em­bat­tled Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher will have to wait un­til at least next month to learn the fate of her law­suit against the Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PolSC) over its de­ci­sion to sus­pend her pend­ing the out­come of a crim­i­nal probe.

When it comes to the tran­si­tion of gov­er­nance in Trinidad and To­ba­go, there’s been no short­age of con­tro­ver­sy, whether it’s be­ing ap­point­ed prime min­is­ter due to the death of a sit­ting leader, or through a snap elec­tion, the cit­i­zens of T&T have seen it all. Or have we?

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says the par­ty will not be desta­bilised by peo­ple who have since turned their backs on it in “or­ches­trat­ed res­ig­na­tions.”

Wing-o-Ra­ma’s pre­sen­ta­tion of Wings of Time and Cen­tral Elite’s Pas­sion are the win­ners of the Ch­agua­nas Car­ni­val Large and Small Band com­pe­ti­tions. The Ch­agua­nas Bor­ough Car­ni­val Com­mit­tee re­leased the re­sults for this year’s cel­e­bra­tions yes­ter­day.

The Op­po­si­tion’s shad­ow min­is­ter of fi­nance, Dave Tan­coo, has ac­cused Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert of “duck­ing re­spon­si­bil­i­ty” in the is­sue with the Au­di­tor Gen­er­al., as he point­ed out the au­dit­ed fi­nan­cials for T&T’s 2023 ac­counts re­main “in­com­plete.”

T&T’s For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Dr Amery Browne and re­gion­al col­leagues from Cari­com’s Coun­cil for For­eign and Com­mu­ni­ty Re­la­tions (Cof­cor) will meet on Sun­day with US State De­part­ment spe­cial en­voy for Latin Amer­i­ca, Mauri­cio Clavre-Carone, on the re­cent­ly an­nounced ex­pand­ed US-Cu­ba visa re­stric­tion pol­i­cy.

To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) Mi­nor­i­ty Leader Kelvon Mor­ris will file a po­lice re­port to­day against Sec­re­tary of Set­tle­ments, Pub­lic Util­i­ties, and Rur­al De­vel­op­ment Ian Pol­lard over what he con­sid­ers a di­rect threat made dur­ing a re­cent ple­nary sit­ting.

To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) Mi­nor­i­ty Leader Kelvon Mor­ris claims an at­tempt was made to “un­der­mine and kill To­ba­go’s Car­ni­val.”

Busi­ness­man Michael St John is ex­pect­ed to learn the fate of his law­suit, over a T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) data­base con­tain­ing false in­for­ma­tion of him be­ing con­vict­ed of drug traf­fick­ing in the Unit­ed States (US) and sub­se­quent­ly de­port­ed, on Oc­to­ber 1.