Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP) Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro has no in­ten­tion of step­ping down or bow­ing out – de­spite mount­ing pub­lic calls for him to be re­moved as head of the coun­try’s lead­ing na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty agency.

The cur­rent in­ves­ti­ga­tion con­cern­ing St Au­gus­tine res­i­dent Joshua Sama­roo, who was killed in a po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing, is “one of the most in­tense in­ves­ti­ga­tions” en­gag­ing the po­lice’s at­ten­tion, says Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath says he shares some of the con­cerns raised by Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der re­gard­ing the pub­lic dis­sem­i­na­tion of sen­si­tive ma­te­r­i­al on so­cial me­dia, par­tic­u­lar­ly in light of the re­cent po­lice-in­volved killing of Joshua Sama­roo and the in­jury of his wife, Ka­ia Sealy, in St Au­gus­tine.

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.