The road­side ven­dor ac­cused of sell­ing pota­toes tak­en from the Clax­ton Bay land­fill has been grant­ed $20,000 bail.

At­tor­ney-at-law Dr Mar­garet Satya Rose was to­day sworn in as an Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor, re­plac­ing Janelle John-Bates on the Op­po­si­tion bench in the Sen­ate.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro says any de­ci­sion on whether to ex­tend the State of Emer­gency (SOE) rests with the Gov­ern­ment, as he de­fend­ed the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice’s han­dling of crime, protests and pub­lic se­cu­ri­ty con­cerns.

Two men have died and three oth­ers were in­jured fol­low­ing a shoot­ing in Mal­ick on Fri­day af­ter­noon.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro has ad­dressed crit­i­cism sur­round­ing the polic­ing of protests dur­ing the SOE, re­ject­ing claims that of­fi­cers have treat­ed some demon­stra­tions dif­fer­ent­ly from oth­ers.

Po­lice ar­rest­ed 32 peo­ple and ex­e­cut­ed 52 war­rants dur­ing a co­or­di­nat­ed ex­er­cise con­duct­ed by of­fi­cers of the South­ern Di­vi­sion ear­li­er this week.

For­mer Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has wel­comed Trinidad and To­ba­go's elec­tion to the Unit­ed Na­tions Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil but warned that the Gov­ern­ment's con­duct on the in­ter­na­tion­al stage will come un­der scruti­ny dur­ing its tenure.

Res­i­dents of Long­denville Road, Ch­agua­nas, are try­ing to come to terms with a dead­ly shoot­ing that claimed the lives of two sib­lings af­ter a masked gun­man stormed the house where they lived.

Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Work­ers’ Union (CWU) sec­re­tary gen­er­al Joanne Ogeer has sound­ed an alarm that 300 work­ers at Trinidad Hilton are like­ly to be dis­placed if the in­ter­na­tion­al fran­chise de­cides to leave the coun­try.

For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers says Trinidad and To­ba­go’s suc­cess­ful elec­tion to a non-per­ma­nent seat on the Unit­ed Na­tions Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil demon­strates the strength of the coun­try’s re­la­tion­ship with Cari­com, de­spite re­cent diplo­mat­ic dis­agree­ments over its gov­er­nance and the reap­point­ment of Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al Dr Car­la Bar­nett.

Al­most two months af­ter a so­cial me­dia video prompt­ed the res­cue and a po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to an al­le­ga­tion that Sabi­ta Bas­deo was false­ly im­pris­oned and suf­fered abuse dur­ing that time, three peo­ple have been charged with a se­ries of of­fences in re­la­tion to the case.

A road­side ven­dor op­er­at­ing at En­deav­our, Ch­agua­nas, has been ar­rest­ed and charged, af­ter ad­mit­ting to sell­ing sacks of pota­toes he re­trieved from the Clax­ton Bay land­fill.