De­spite calls from the Op­po­si­tion for broad­er con­sul­ta­tion, the Gov­ern­ment says it is mov­ing ahead with amend­ments to the Bail Act, in­sist­ing the changes are nec­es­sary to pro­tect the in­tegri­ty of the crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem.

With emp­ty seats and few­er young voic­es than usu­al, this year’s San Fer­nan­do Ju­nior Ca­lyp­so Monarch re­flect­ed the strain of fund­ing chal­lenges. Still, as a new cham­pi­on, Janaya Clark, 11, of Mod­ern Minds Acad­e­my, was crowned, calls grew loud­er for ca­lyp­so to be made a sub­ject in schools and for Car­ni­val to en­dure de­spite the odds.

Par­ents of stu­dents at Rio Claro East Sec­ondary School staged a protest out­side the school on Thurs­day, vow­ing they will not rest un­til the per­son be­hind a se­ries of vi­o­lent on­line threats is ar­rest­ed.

Three busi­ness­es were af­fect­ed by a fire that broke out at the Bam­boo Set­tle­ment No 3, Val­sayn, on Thurs­day evening.

The fam­i­ly of miss­ing 20-year-old Tyrese Pe­ters is now of­fer­ing a mon­e­tary re­ward for in­for­ma­tion lead­ing to his where­abouts, dead or alive.

A blog­ger and for­mer ra­dio host has been charged with sedi­tion af­ter a post on so­cial me­dia al­leged­ly in­vit­ed for­eign par­ties to tar­get the of­fi­cial res­i­dence of the Prime Min­is­ter.

A Mara­cas man was killed and an­oth­er in­jured af­ter the par­cel of land they were ex­ca­vat­ing to build a box drain col­lapsed, bury­ing them.

The State has been or­dered to pay over $1.2 mil­lion in com­pen­sa­tion to eight women for abuse they suf­fered while re­mand­ed to the Women’s Prison in Arou­ca when they were ju­ve­niles.

Of­fi­cers at­tached to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice Traf­fic and High­way Pa­trol Branch say they may be forced to park their mo­tor­cy­cles if their calls for new uni­forms con­tin­ue to be ig­nored.

Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Khadi­jah Ameen has again pushed back against what she de­scribed as “mis­chie­vous com­ments” by Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les over the Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to es­tab­lish a com­mit­tee to re­view the bound­aries of mu­nic­i­pal cor­po­ra­tions in Trinidad.

Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer of the Princess Eliz­a­beth Cen­tre, Jan Sir­jus­ingh, has urged young peo­ple to choose pos­i­tive paths, point­ing to the ex­am­ple set by stu­dent char­i­ty founder Liam Chan Pak dur­ing an out­reach and Car­ni­val cheer event at the cen­tre on Fri­day.

A blog­ger and for­mer ra­dio host has been charged with sedi­tion af­ter a post on so­cial me­dia al­leged­ly in­vit­ed for­eign par­ties to tar­get the of­fi­cial res­i­dence of the Prime Min­is­ter.