Pub­lic de­bate con­tin­ues over the re­design of the Coat of Arms (CoA), with graph­ic de­sign­ers urg­ing Gov­ern­ment to de­lay its roll­out on na­tion­al brands, cur­ren­cy and doc­u­ments so a pro­fes­sion­al re­view can be done, af­ter im­ages of the new de­sign were re­vealed over the week­end.

Mem­bers of the le­gal fra­ter­ni­ty have come to the de­fence of Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress To­co/San­gre Grande can­di­date Wayne Sturge, af­ter he came un­der fire for speak­ing out against crime hav­ing rep­re­sent­ed sus­pect­ed gang lead­ers and oth­er no­to­ri­ous peo­ple charged with heinous of­fences.

Po­lice in­tend to in­crease se­cu­ri­ty mea­sures in Bel­mont, even as in­ves­ti­ga­tors con­tin­ue in­quiries in­to the mur­ders of two men in the com­mu­ni­ty on Sat­ur­day night.

A week af­ter mem­bers of the Prison Ser­vice were threat­ened by mem­bers of the crim­i­nal el­e­ment, the homes of two prison of­fi­cers were shot at yes­ter­day morn­ing.

Stu­dents at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies’ St Au­gus­tine cam­pus might not have any ex­ams to look for­ward to at the end of this se­mes­ter, as the West In­dies Group of Uni­ver­si­ty Teach­ers (WIGUT) is threat­en­ing to with­hold ex­am­i­na­tion pa­pers if Gov­ern­ment does give them their promised salary in­creas­es.

The Sen­ate will to­day be pre­sent­ed with the fi­nal re­port of the probe in­to the dis­ap­pear­ance of a file re­lat­ed to the ma­li­cious pros­e­cu­tion case filed by men who were award­ed $20 mil­lion af­ter the State failed to de­fend the mat­ter.

A rel­a­tive of two Matelot broth­ers killed over the week­end has blamed their mur­ders on in­creas­ing­ly hos­tile crim­i­nals in the neigh­bour­hood who have tar­get­ed res­i­dents.

Po­lice are yet to de­ter­mine who was the ag­gres­sor in last Fri­day’s fight be­tween a teacher and stu­dent at the Moru­ga Sec­ondary School. An of­fi­cer said yes­ter­day that in­ves­ti­ga­tions were still in the pre­lim­i­nary stages.

All To­ba­go Fish­er­folk As­so­ci­a­tion (AT­FA) views a re­cent pay­ment of over $1 mil­lion from the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly as com­pen­sa­tion to fish­er­men and says fish­er­folk are still owed $5 mil­lion for work done in the oil spill re­cov­ery ef­forts.

Queen’s Park Crick­et Club pres­i­dent, Dr Nigel Ca­ma­cho, has praised the Trinidad and To­ba­go Fire Ser­vice (TTFS) for their swift re­sponse to a fire at the Queen’s Park Oval.

Windy con­di­tions may of­fer some re­lief from the heat but this week they can be strong enough to be­come a haz­ard.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has de­scribed the ad­min­is­tra­tion of for­mer US pres­i­dent Joseph Biden as “a dis­as­ter for the Amer­i­can peo­ple and the world”.