Ar­rive Alive pres­i­dent Sharon In­gle­field says that while dis­tract­ed dri­ving re­mains a con­cern, re­duc­ing speed lim­its should take prece­dence over in­tro­duc­ing new reg­u­la­tions on mo­bile and wind­screen-mount­ed de­vices.

With just ten days un­til mas­quer­aders take the streets, San Fer­nan­do stake­hold­ers be­lieve there is still time for ad­di­tion­al fund­ing to re­store com­pe­ti­tion and strength­en Car­ni­val in San Fer­nan­do, even as the city grap­ples with the ef­fects of a re­duced sub­ven­tion.

A Mt Lam­bert cou­ple who op­er­ate a mi­ni-mart from their home have been charged with mar­i­jua­na pos­ses­sion for the pur­pose of traf­fick­ing, af­ter al­le­ga­tions they were sell­ing drugs to school­child­ren.

Bo­is­men show­cased their finest skills on Wednes­day night at the semi­fi­nals of the NCC Stick Fight­ing Com­pe­ti­tion at the San­gre Grande Mul­ti-pur­pose In­door Sport­ing Fa­cil­i­ty on Ojoe Road, San­gre Grande.

Al­most a month af­ter his body was found in the Heights of Gua­napo, two Moru­ga men have been charged with the mur­der of 23-year-old Ronald Ram­lo­gan.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine said a barge has been se­cured as an in­ter­im mea­sure to move car­go to To­ba­go fol­low­ing dam­age to the MV Blue Wave Har­mo­ny.

A Pe­nal woman got a shock on Wednes­day af­ter dis­cov­er­ing the handy­man she had hired ly­ing dead in her gar­den.

The Trin­ba­go Uni­fied Ca­lyp­so­ni­ans’ Or­gan­i­sa­tion has an­nounced the or­der of ap­pear­ance for the se­mi-fi­nal round of the Na­tion­al Ca­lyp­so Monarch com­pe­ti­tion.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has re­ject­ed claims of a cov­er-up as in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue in­to the po­lice killing of Joshua Sama­roo and shoot­ing of his com­mon-law wife Ka­ia Sealy, say­ing au­thor­i­ties must be al­lowed to com­plete their work and “let the chips fall where they may.”

For­mer Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith is no longer pulling his punch­es re­gard­ing the per­for­mance of cur­rent Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP) Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro, whom he has de­scribed as “des­per­ate,” “pet­ty” and “com­i­cal.”

Al­though the State of Emer­gency (SoE) end­ed last week­end, the wives of in­mates Ra­jaee Ali and Earl Richards say their loved ones con­tin­ue to be de­nied ba­sic rights at Teteron Bar­racks, Ch­aguara­mas.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der says al­though most of the de­tainees held un­der the State of Emer­gency (SoE) were re­leased af­ter it end­ed, it does not mean they can’t be charged in the fu­ture.