Deputy House Speak­er Dr Aiy­na Ali has re­ject­ed a mo­tion seek­ing leave to re­fer House Speak­er Jagdeo Singh to Par­lia­ment’s Priv­i­leges Com­mit­tee, over al­le­ga­tions of bias and con­flict of in­ter­est linked to a par­lia­men­tary in­quiry in­to phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals.

Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Health Dr Rishad Seecha­ran said ris­ing al­co­hol con­sump­tion in Trinidad and To­ba­go is con­tribut­ing to road traf­fic in­ci­dents, as he con­tributed to a pri­vate mo­tion on the es­tab­lish­ment of an ad­e­quate na­tion­al road safe­ty sys­tem in the Low­er House yes­ter­day.

Two mo­tor­cy­clists died in sep­a­rate road traf­fic ac­ci­dents just hours apart yes­ter­day morn­ing.

The Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer has giv­en the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion four weeks to re­spond to the Gov­ern­ment’s fi­nal set­tle­ment of­fer, which com­pris­es 40 per cent cash and 60 per cent non-cash ben­e­fits.

For many stu­dents in­side the South­ern Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts (SAPA) last Wednes­day, the pres­sure was not just about spelling dif­fi­cult words. It was about prov­ing months of prepa­ra­tion, dis­ci­pline and con­fi­dence un­der the bright lights of a na­tion­al stage.

A fe­male sol­dier, whose se­nior­i­ty was not recog­nised af­ter she could not com­plete a fit­ness test due to med­ical com­pli­ca­tions fol­low­ing a cae­sare­an sec­tion, has been award­ed over $120,000 in com­pen­sa­tion. 

Bail has been de­nied to a 35-year-old man charged in con­nec­tion with a $6.3 mil­lion mar­i­jua­na seizure in Gas­par­il­lo ear­li­er this year.

The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion has re­ceived a pre­lim­i­nary re­port in­to the vi­o­lent in­ci­dent in­volv­ing stu­dents of Ch­agua­nas South Sec­ondary School, in which a stu­dent was beat­en and re­port­ed­ly knocked un­con­scious by a group of boys ear­li­er this week in Ch­agua­nas.

Res­i­dents in Princes Town and en­vi­rons can now breathe a sigh of re­lief with the re­turn of a fire sta­tion pres­ence in the area af­ter a two-year ab­sence.

A wet­ter rainy sea­son no longer guar­an­tees wa­ter se­cu­ri­ty, and a dri­er wet sea­son no longer means com­mu­ni­ties are safe from flood­ing.

Crim­i­nal de­fence at­tor­ney Daniel Khan is call­ing for leg­isla­tive re­form on the de­fence of provo­ca­tion, es­pe­cial­ly in mur­der cas­es aris­ing out of in­ti­mate part­ner vi­o­lence.

The Sen­ate has passed leg­is­la­tion that will ex­pand the State's pow­ers to col­lect DNA sam­ples with­out con­sent from in­di­vid­u­als who pose spe­cif­ic, high-lev­el na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty or counter-ter­ror­ism risks up­on en­ter­ing or re-en­ter­ing the coun­try.