Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is pleased that the head of the Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Ser­vice was sent on ad­min­is­tra­tive leave, as she lament­ed that for months, cor­rup­tion was al­lowed to fes­ter at the San Fer­nan­do Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Sta­tion.

The Per­ma­nent Sec­re­tary in the Min­istry of Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment and Rur­al De­vel­op­ment says the rec­om­men­da­tion to place the head of the Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Ser­vice on ad­min­is­tra­tive leave came from a se­nior po­lice of­fi­cer, not from any po­lit­i­cal di­rec­tive.

Days af­ter the bru­tal mur­der of po­lice cor­po­ral Anusha Ever­s­ley, at the San Fer­nan­do Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Sta­tion, Ari­ma May­or Bal­li­ram Ma­haraj said all Mu­nic­i­pal Cor­po­ra­tions should en­sure their of­fi­cers are safe.

Days af­ter Pe­nal busi­ness­woman Fa­ree­da Al­ladin Bal­go­b­in and a close male rel­a­tive were ar­rest­ed by po­lice, Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) have been is­sued for both of them.

For­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has crit­i­cised the cur­rent ad­min­is­tra­tion’s han­dling of na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty, de­scrib­ing the Gov­ern­ment’s crime plan as a “rolling state of emer­gency” based on “pub­lic ma­nip­u­la­tions.”

It was a night of yel­low flags and soar­ing rhetoric. Stand­ing be­fore a sea of sup­port­ers at the par­ty’s Ch­agua­nas head­quar­ters near­ly one year ago, a promise of a new eco­nom­ic dawn was made.

For more than two decades, thou­sands of young peo­ple have en­tered job train­ing pro­grammes de­signed to pre­pare them for the work­force, but ques­tions per­sist over whether those pro­grammes are con­sis­tent­ly trans­lat­ing in­to em­ploy­ment op­por­tu­ni­ties.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has ruled out any im­mi­nent Cab­i­net reshuf­fle, in­sist­ing her ad­min­is­tra­tion re­mains fo­cused on de­liv­er­ing re­sults af­ter what she de­scribed as a strong first year in of­fice.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says she has no ob­jec­tion to a re­port­ed as­set swap be­tween Chevron and Shell, while con­firm­ing that diplo­mat­ic en­gage­ment with Venezuela re­mains ac­tive as Trinidad and To­ba­go pur­sues cross-bor­der en­er­gy op­por­tu­ni­ties.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has con­firmed that one per­son re­mains in cus­tody as in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue in­to the at­tempt­ed dis­pos­al of bod­ies at the Cu­mu­to Ceme­tery last week­end.

The High Court has award­ed Range Re­sources Drilling Ser­vices Ltd $1,247,847.46 in a breach of con­tract case against 360 Oil and Gas Lim­it­ed, in a judg­ment that in­clud­ed dam­ages and in­ter­est.

A cashier re­mains in po­lice cus­tody in con­nec­tion with the theft of more than $53,000 from a West­ern Union out­let at a su­per­mar­ket in Point Fortin.