Leader of the Op­po­si­tion Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is­sued a state­ment call­ing on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to apol­o­gise for re­marks made in re­cent pub­lic ex­changes and to ad­dress what she de­scribed as on­go­ing con­cerns about con­duct in the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar met Chair­man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine at the Diplo­mat­ic Cen­tre for talks fo­cused on re­gion­al se­cu­ri­ty and con­tin­ued co­op­er­a­tion be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go and the Unit­ed States.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) is warn­ing that it will not al­low the gov­ern­ment to threat­en and muz­zle voic­es that speak out against its con­duct.

Two men were ar­rest­ed and a firearm along with am­mu­ni­tion seized dur­ing an ear­ly morn­ing an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion car­ried out by of­fi­cers of the Siparia Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment on Tues­day.

Chair­man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen­er­al Dan Caine met with Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar in Port of Spain for talks on se­cu­ri­ty co­op­er­a­tion be­tween the Unit­ed States and Trinidad and To­ba­go.

For­mer Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert says the Gov­ern­ment will need to re­turn to Par­lia­ment for ad­di­tion­al fund­ing if it in­tends to meet the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion’s re­quest to have back­pay, stem­ming from the still-to-be-ne­go­ti­at­ed “10 per cent” wage in­crease, paid by Christ­mas.

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro has is­sued a warn­ing to the pub­lic af­ter the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice re­port­ed an in­crease in on­line posts con­tain­ing threats of vi­o­lence, in­clud­ing threats aimed at pub­lic of­fi­cials.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) plans to re­fer At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie to Par­lia­ment’s Priv­i­leges Com­mit­tee over com­ments he made dur­ing a “hot mic” mo­ment in the Low­er House on No­vem­ber 21.

Chair­man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen­er­al Dan Caine is meet­ing with Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar at the Diplo­mat­ic Cen­tre.

Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al, Dr. Car­la Bar­nett, on Tues­day said that the re­gion­al in­te­gra­tion group­ing stands in “sol­i­dar­i­ty” with the glob­al com­mu­ni­ty in com­mem­o­rat­ing the 16 Days of Ac­tivism against Gen­der-Based Vi­o­lence.

Rus­sia launched a wave of at­tacks on Ukraine’s cap­i­tal, Kyiv, overnight, with at least sev­en peo­ple killed in strikes that hit city build­ings and en­er­gy in­fra­struc­ture. A Ukrain­ian at­tack on south­ern Rus­sia killed three peo­ple and dam­aged homes, au­thor­i­ties said.

PNM To­ba­go po­lit­i­cal leader An­cil Den­nis says To­ba­go has “aged” un­der the cur­rent ad­min­is­tra­tion, claim­ing the is­land de­te­ri­o­rat­ed so bad­ly that it now looks “69” in­stead of “29.”