Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP) Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro says the six-month-long State of Emer­gency (SoE), which ex­pires at mid­night, was “100% ef­fec­tive.”

For­mer po­lice com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith says he will ap­peal a court rul­ing that or­dered he pay re­tired Ap­peal Court judge Stan­ley John near­ly one mil­lion dol­lars, in­clu­sive of le­gal costs.

De­spite her re­cent de­scrip­tion of Cari­com as an un­re­li­able part­ner, com­ments that raised con­cerns about pos­si­ble frac­tures with­in the re­gion­al bloc, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is reaf­firm­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go’s com­mit­ment to the or­gan­i­sa­tion.

As Venezuela be­gins to re­open its en­er­gy in­dus­try to for­eign in­vest­ment, econ­o­mist and po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst Dr Vanus James says T&T’s suc­cess in re­open­ing dis­cus­sions with Venezuela over the Drag­on gas field and oth­er en­er­gy ne­go­ti­a­tions will de­pend on what­ev­er the US gov­ern­ment al­lows it.

Hous­ing Min­is­ter David Lee has launched an im­me­di­ate in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to al­le­ga­tions of mis­use of a Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) com­pound at Cy­press Hills, San Fer­nan­do, while Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Hous­ing Phillip Ed­ward Alexan­der has or­dered the re­moval of struc­tures erect­ed on a com­mu­nal green space fol­low­ing com­plaints from res­i­dents.

The Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) has writ­ten to the Speak­er of the House seek­ing the re­fer­ral of Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and Leader of Gov­ern­ment Busi­ness Bar­ry Padarath to the Com­mit­tee of Priv­i­leges over state­ments made about in­de­pen­dent sen­a­tors.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is call­ing on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to break her si­lence and name the two in­de­pen­dent sen­a­tors she claims at­tempt­ed to so­lic­it bribes in ex­change for sup­port­ing the Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions (ZOSO) Bill.

Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Util­i­ties Bar­ry Padarath has ac­cused the Law As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (LATT) of “se­lec­tive out­rage,” over its con­cerns on mat­ters raised by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar fol­low­ing Tues­day’s de­feat of the Gov­ern­ment’s Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions (ZOSO) Bill.

The Law As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (LATT) has called up­on all par­tic­i­pants in pub­lic life to re­frain from mak­ing se­ri­ous al­le­ga­tions that can­not be sub­stan­ti­at­ed or prop­er­ly in­ves­ti­gat­ed, and if par­tic­u­lars of the claims can­not be pro­vid­ed, un­ver­i­fi­able ac­cu­sa­tions ought to be pub­licly with­drawn.

For­mer prime min­is­ter Stu­art Young is call­ing on Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo to for­mal­ly in­ter­vene fol­low­ing al­le­ga­tions made by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar against two of her ap­point­ed In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tors.

Works and Trans­port Min­is­ter Jear­lean John says she is await­ing ex­pert as­sess­ments on the MV Blue Wave Har­mo­ny, af­ter the ves­sel sus­tained hull dam­age in Scar­bor­ough.

In re­sponse to warn­ings from school maxi taxi op­er­a­tors that ser­vices could be sus­pend­ed from Mon­day, Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath as­sured that dri­vers are re­ceiv­ing pay­ments.