The amend­ed Chil­dren’s Life Fund Act has al­lowed an in­ter­na­tion­al med­ical spe­cial­ist to trav­el to Trinidad and To­ba­go to per­form a spe­cialised pro­ce­dure on a child, avoid­ing the need to send the ben­e­fi­cia­ry over­seas for treat­ment.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice says the re­cent wave of bomb threats tar­get­ing courts, gov­ern­ment of­fices, busi­ness­es, ho­tels and diplo­mat­ic mis­sions has been as­sessed as a se­ries of hoax­es.

The T&T Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) has made good on its threat to sue Port-of-Spain South MP Kei­th Scot­land, SC, and a mem­ber of his law cham­bers, over the rep­re­sen­ta­tion they pro­vid­ed in its failed bid to re­cov­er ap­prox­i­mate­ly $2.4 mil­lion in un­paid elec­tric­i­ty charges from now-de­funct ice cream man­u­fac­tur­er Fla­vorite Foods Lim­it­ed. 

With just one day be­fore Trinidad and To­ba­go cel­e­brates its 64th In­de­pen­dence an­niver­sary, law en­force­ment agen­cies have re­vist­ed and height­ened se­cu­ri­ty mea­sures fol­low­ing an un­ver­i­fied re­port of pos­si­ble threats against em­bassies, diplo­mat­ic fa­cil­i­ties and Gov­ern­ment build­ings re­ceived late Fri­day night.

The pub­lic is be­ing re­mind­ed that the use of cam­era drones in Port-of-Spain and oth­er no-fly zones is strict­ly pro­hib­it­ed dur­ing to­mor­row’s In­de­pen­dence Day cel­e­bra­tions.

The re­vo­ca­tion of a Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO) against dance­hall artiste Joseph “Medz Boss” Oliviere has re­newed scruti­ny of the Gov­ern­ment’s use of ex­ec­u­tive de­ten­tion pow­ers and prompt­ed wider de­bate about Trinidad and To­ba­go’s an­ti-crime strat­e­gy.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Sen­a­tor Melanie Roberts-Radg­man is warn­ing about the po­ten­tial for abuse of pow­er fol­low­ing the es­tab­lish­ment of three po­lice posts in To­ba­go.

Res­i­dents and busi­ness op­er­a­tors across Mal­oney, Arou­ca and Ari­ma are grap­pling with an un­re­li­able wa­ter sup­ply, but opin­ions dif­fer on whether the is­sue amounts to po­lit­i­cal vic­tim­i­sa­tion in con­stituen­cies rep­re­sent­ed by the Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) or the peren­ni­al un­re­li­able ser­vice by the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty.

To­ba­go po­lice seized more than $1.1 mil­lion worth of mar­i­jua­na and ar­rest­ed three sus­pects dur­ing an ear­ly morn­ing op­er­a­tion in Canaan yes­ter­day.

As Trinidad and To­ba­go’s an­nu­al food im­port bill hov­ers around $7 bil­lion, three once-promis­ing youth agri­cul­tur­al pro­grammes lie aban­doned, leav­ing near­ly 1,500 grad­u­ates fac­ing un­cer­tain­ty and dashed hopes.

There will be no To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA)-fund­ed fire­works dis­play for In­de­pen­dence Day cel­e­bra­tions in To­ba­go to­mor­row.

Mar­itime sur­vey­or Ri­car­do Al­fred has con­firmed that a Frankie Tours reef tour boat that sank ear­li­er this week will have to un­der­go a new sur­vey be­fore it can re­turn to ser­vice at the Buc­coo Reef Ma­rine Park in To­ba­go.