Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath says the Gov­ern­ment has full con­fi­dence that Land and Le­gal Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sad­dam Ho­sein and state en­ter­prise Land­mark­TT Prop­er­ties Lim­it­ed fol­lowed the prop­er pro­cure­ment pro­ce­dures in re­la­tion to the con­tro­ver­sial Al­lam­by Res­i­den­tial De­vel­op­ment project, now un­der in­ves­ti­ga­tion by the Of­fice of Pro­cure­ment Reg­u­la­tion (OPR).

As in­for­ma­tion emerges about Pro­cure­ment Reg­u­la­tor Bev­er­ly Khan’s pre­vi­ous role on the board of the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) un­der the last Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment ad­min­is­tra­tion, her for­mer line min­is­ter has come to her de­fence, de­scrib­ing Khan as a dec­o­rat­ed pub­lic ser­vant who al­so served on board and ad­vi­so­ry po­si­tions dur­ing the Peo­ple’s Part­ner­ship gov­ern­ment.

Jobs at Am­plia Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Lim­it­ed could be un­der threat as Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath says the state-owned TSTT sub­sidiary may be wound up, pend­ing the out­come of an in­ves­ti­ga­tion ex­pect­ed to be­gin in the com­ing months.

The East­ern Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (ER­HA) has been or­dered to pay com­pen­sa­tion to the fam­i­ly of a woman who died from an in­fec­tion she con­tract­ed at the San­gre Grande Dis­trict Hos­pi­tal af­ter un­der­go­ing a rou­tine op­er­a­tion in 2018.

A High Court judge has called for a man to be in­ves­ti­gat­ed for al­leged­ly fram­ing a neigh­bour for chop­ping him, af­ter ev­i­dence emerged that he was in fact in­jured by the ac­cused man’s moth­er dur­ing a con­fronta­tion in which he is said to have threat­ened her.

Twelve men, all ac­cused of be­ing in­volved in or­gan­ised crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty, have been or­dered de­tained at the East­ern Cor­rec­tion­al Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre un­der the lat­est de­ten­tion or­ders gazetted by the State.

Days af­ter he went pub­lic with claims of a long-run­ning bribery rack­et at the Im­mi­gra­tion Di­vi­sion, Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der is ex­pect­ed to hand over doc­u­ments to se­nior po­lice of­fi­cials to sup­port fur­ther in­ves­ti­ga­tions.

A del­e­ga­tion of Venezue­lan mi­grants and in­dige­nous peo­ple, led by the La Ca­sitas His­pan­ic Cul­tur­al Cen­tre, vis­it­ed the Min­istry of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty at the Wa­ter­front Com­plex in Port-of-Spain on Wednes­day as con­cerns in­ten­si­fied over missed ap­point­ments, failed on­line reg­is­tra­tions and the lack of of­fi­cial re­spons­es.

Trinidad and To­ba­go is among 12 coun­tries in the Sheild of the Amer­i­c­as ini­tia­tive, ex­press­ing con­cern over on­go­ing protests and road block­ades in Bo­livia, warn­ing against ac­tions that could desta­bilise the South Amer­i­can na­tion’s de­mo­c­ra­t­i­cal­ly elect­ed gov­ern­ment.

The woman left paral­ysed af­ter the po­lice shoot­ing that killed Joshua Sama­roo is now fac­ing crim­i­nal charges linked to the same in­ci­dent, months af­ter video footage of the shoot­ing sparked pub­lic out­rage and calls for ac­count­abil­i­ty.

Three stu­dents are ex­pect­ed to be placed on ex­tend­ed in­def­i­nite sus­pen­sion pend­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to a fight which was cap­tured on video and cir­cu­lat­ed on so­cial me­dia.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors con­tin­ue en­quiries in­to the death of a man, iden­ti­fied as Ryan John, who was found on the premis­es of a house on Rail­way Road, San­gre Grande.