At­tor­ney and pro­cure­ment ex­pert Dr Mar­garet Satya Rose has re­placed Janelle John-Bates on the Op­po­si­tion bench, but Faris Al-Rawi has sur­vived Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les’ “ro­ta­tion.”

Leg­is­la­tion to reg­u­late so­cial me­dia for chil­dren un­der age 12 will be among Gov­ern­ment’s leg­isla­tive agen­da for the Sec­ond Ses­sion of Par­lia­ment—and Gov­ern­ment al­so projects of­fer­ing ap­prox­i­mate­ly 8,000-plus jobs ahead via its Hous­ing and Re­vi­tal­i­sa­tion projects.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has again sig­nalled that the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) will not sup­port any fur­ther ex­ten­sion of the State of Emer­gency (SoE).

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP) Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro has re­ject­ed claims of bias amid com­plaints by trade unions and ac­tivists that pub­lic demon­stra­tions are be­ing un­fair­ly re­strict­ed us­ing the State of Emer­gency (SoE)

Ac­tivist Wen­dell Ever­s­ley says he is con­cerned that Trinidad and To­ba­go is head­ing to­wards be­com­ing a po­lice state, fol­low­ing new State of Emer­gency (SoE) reg­u­la­tions that pro­hib­it pub­lic protests with­in 500 me­tres of 15 des­ig­nat­ed lo­ca­tions, in­clud­ing the Par­lia­ment.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has hailed Trinidad and To­ba­go’s achieve­ment of a Unit­ed Na­tions Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil (UN­SC) seat as a vote of con­fi­dence in T&T’s lead­er­ship, cred­i­bil­i­ty and grow­ing in­flu­ence with­in the in­ter­na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty. How­ev­er, Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has point­ed out that T&T was al­so on the UN­SC in 1985 due to the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment gov­ern­ment’s work.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has warned po­lice that they are run­ning out of ex­cus­es in their bat­tle against crim­i­nals.

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.

A 22-year-old Rio Claro labour­er ap­peared vir­tu­al­ly in the High Court in San Fer­nan­do yes­ter­day in re­la­tion to an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the al­leged un­law­ful con­fine­ment and abuse of a woman.

Two men were killed and three oth­ers in­jured fol­low­ing a shoot­ing in Mal­ick yes­ter­day af­ter­noon.

A High Court Judge has re­solved a long-stand­ing dis­pute be­tween a pair of friends and busi­ness­men over a par­cel of land that was left over from a busi­ness ven­ture that did not ma­te­ri­alise. 

A 30-year-old man from Char­lieville is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore the South Dis­trict Mas­ters’ Court af­ter po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tions re­vealed that a re­port­ed kid­nap­ping was fab­ri­cat­ed, re­sult­ing in the un­nec­es­sary de­ploy­ment of sig­nif­i­cant po­lice re­sources.