UNC MP Bar­ry Padarath yes­ter­day called for the Gov­ern­ment to join the Op­po­si­tion to bring the Jay­den Lalchan an­ti-bul­ly­ing law in­to be­ing, plus a law on parental re­spon­si­bil­i­ty re­gard­ing chil­dren who com­mit crimes.

A 34-year-old man from San Fer­nan­do, who is await­ing tri­al for mur­der­ing a po­lice of­fi­cer, has been award­ed $75,000 in com­pen­sa­tion for be­ing beat­en by prison of­fi­cers. 

Ig­nor­ing all the naysay­ers, Jenelle Thongs, who rep­re­sent­ed T&T at the re­cent­ly con­clud­ed Miss Uni­verse pageant, says she is filled with joy as her dream has come true.

A busi­ness­man from San Fer­nan­do has been or­dered to pay com­pen­sa­tion for in­ter­fer­ing with a wall which sep­a­rates his prop­er­ty from a build­ing hous­ing a law firm.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has ini­ti­at­ed dis­ci­pli­nary pro­ceed­ings against three of­fi­cers fol­low­ing the col­lapse of Mon­day’s high-pro­file court case in­volv­ing sev­en po­lice of­fi­cers.

West In­dies Group of Uni­ver­si­ty Teach­ers (WIGUT) pres­i­dent, Dr In­di­ra Ram­per­sad, has urged Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert to re­frain from con­duct­ing salary ne­go­ti­a­tions in Par­lia­ment.

Al­though in­ves­ti­ga­tors re­mained tight-lipped re­gard­ing the search for kid­napped busi­ness­man Shashi Anand Ram­per­sad yes­ter­day, ef­forts con­tin­ued up to late last night to lo­cate him.

Hit­ting the ground run­ning, new­ly ap­point­ed Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PolSC) chair­man, Dr Wen­dell Wal­lace, has un­veiled plans to stream­line the ap­point­ment process for po­lice com­mis­sion­ers and deputy com­mis­sion­ers.

Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Nyan Gads­by-Dol­ly has at­trib­uted a gen­er­al de­cline in bul­ly­ing and ex­tor­tion in schools for the aca­d­e­m­ic years 2022-2023 and 2023-2024, to the ef­forts of the School In­ter­ven­tion Pro­gramme.

​The Labour Move­ment has de­clared that it will not be in­tim­i­dat­ed by the Gov­ern­ment. Unions came to­geth­er yes­ter­day dur­ing a press brief­ing at the Na­tion­al Union of Gov­ern­ment and Fed­er­at­ed Work­ers (NUGFW) head of­fice in Port-of-Spain to re­in­force their stance.

The at­tor­ney for An­drew Mathu­ra, 65, the fa­ther of Han­nah Mathu­ra, says she plans to ap­ply for bail for her client soon, as his health is wors­en­ing in prison.

Res­i­dents of Black Rock, To­ba­go, are com­plain­ing of ex­ces­sive force, poor at­ti­tudes, and mis­trust be­tween the com­mu­ni­ty and law en­force­ment.