Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Fitzger­ald Hinds is call­ing on cit­i­zens to re­port any strangers they ob­serve in their neigh­bour­hoods.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley says that a lot more will be hap­pen­ing dur­ing the State of Emer­gency (SoE) as more was ex­pect­ed from po­lice of­fi­cers and in­tel­li­gence agen­cies. He added that even af­ter the SoE, Gov­ern­ment will re­main en­gaged and try to im­prove its re­sponse to the crim­i­nal el­e­ment.

The Move­ment for So­cial Jus­tice (MSJ) has an­nounced that it will not con­test the 2025 gen­er­al elec­tion. In­stead, the par­ty will fo­cus on build­ing its ca­pac­i­ty to even­tu­al­ly gov­ern, par­ty leader David Ab­du­lah re­vealed dur­ing a press con­fer­ence in San Fer­nan­do yes­ter­day.

For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Dr Amery Browne has for­mal­ly sig­nalled his in­ter­est to be screened for the post of Diego Mar­tin West MP. He broke his si­lence yes­ter­day, say­ing he was ready to serve faith­ful­ly. 

There will be no gun amnesty in the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE). This was con­firmed by the Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al in a let­ter sent to at­tor­ney Dayadai Har­ri­paul yes­ter­day morn­ing.

UNC MP Dr Roodal Mooni­lal has called for all the de­tails on sev­er­al trips made by En­er­gy Min­is­ter Stu­art Young to Venezuela be­tween 2022 and 2024, which Mooni­lal claims cost an es­ti­mat­ed $1.2 mil­lion.

Peo­ple ac­cused of mur­der, who did not have the abil­i­ty to ap­peal be­ing re­fused bail be­fore an amend­ment to the Bail Act last year, will have to reap­ply un­der the leg­is­la­tion for a sec­ond chance at be­ing re­leased pend­ing tri­al.

A com­pa­ny has with­drawn its case against an at­tor­ney, whose bank ac­counts were frozen as part of its bid to re­cov­er $7 mil­lion in funds paid to a con­trac­tor for a con­struc­tion project that al­leged­ly did not ma­te­ri­alise. 

The in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing a dead­ly fire that claimed the lives of D’Abadie/O’Meara MP and Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion, Lisa Mor­ris-Ju­lian, 48, and two of her chil­dren and the re­sponse of the Fire Ser­vice has been com­plet­ed.

Sev­en hours af­ter wit­ness­ing her home en­gulfed in flames, Ste Madeleine pen­sion­er Rashee­da Mo­hammed had yet to find rest, con­sumed by the un­cer­tain­ty of how to re­build.

An 18-year-old from Diego Mar­tin be­came the coun­try’s lat­est mur­der vic­tim when he was gunned down on Mon­day night.

The com­mon-law hus­band of ju­di­cial of­fi­cer Sta­cy Gopauls­ingh ap­peared in court on Mon­day charged with her mur­der.