Jus­tice Frank Seep­er­sad has called on cit­i­zens to cre­ate Zones of Sup­port and Safe­ty, or ZOSAS, with­in homes and com­mu­ni­ties as part of a na­tion­al re­sponse to crime.

This was the sug­ges­tion of a ju­nior State coun­sel in re­sponse to re­ports that the Of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (ODPP) has been un­able to as­sign pros­e­cu­tors to four re­cent­ly ap­point­ed judges due to chron­ic and ever in­creas­ing staff short­ages.

As hun­dreds of high-achiev­ing Sec­ondary Ed­u­ca­tion As­sess­ment (SEA) stu­dents looked to­ward fu­tures that may one day take them over­seas, High Court Judge Gillian Lucky de­liv­ered a blunt ap­peal on Sat­ur­day: come back home.

Siparia pen­sion­er Nank­ishore “Bob­by” Sir­ju went to bed un­der the stars on Sat­ur­day night, but there was lit­tle peace in it.

The Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) Gov­ern­ment has been weak on eco­nom­ic per­for­mance and pro­vi­sion of safe­ty, and it ur­gent­ly needs to con­front key eco­nom­ic is­sues se­ri­ous­ly in Par­lia­ment’s up­com­ing Sec­ond Ses­sion, says for­mer UNC min­is­ter Vas­ant Bharath.

Amer­i­can rap­per Jef­frey “Ja Rule” Atkins briefly stirred and flirt­ed with con­tro­ver­sy dur­ing Sat­ur­day night’s R&B Brunch con­cert at the Queen’s Park Oval, Port-of-Spain, af­ter us­ing sev­er­al ex­ple­tives on­stage.

Less than two months be­fore the En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty (EMA) grant­ed a Cer­tifi­cate of En­vi­ron­men­tal Clear­ance (CEC) to Su­pe­ri­or Ho­tels Ltd for a ma­jor project at Rocky Point, To­ba­go, two ex­perts con­sult­ed by the EMA deemed the 200-room ho­tel and re­sort “fun­da­men­tal­ly in­com­pat­i­ble” with the site.

More than a month af­ter a string of break-ins in­to parked cars and rob­beries trig­gered a mul­ti-pronged po­lice re­sponse near the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah and the La­dy Chan­cel­lor Road, St Clair, po­lice and jog­gers have re­port­ed that there has been a no­tice­able de­cline in crime in the area.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce (T&T Cham­ber) has called for con­tin­ued ad­her­ence to sound gov­er­nance and fis­cal man­age­ment prac­tices at the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NGC), fol­low­ing re­cent pub­lic dis­cus­sion on the com­pa­ny’s cred­it rat­ing arrange­ments.

Sev­er­al res­i­dents in Val­sayn North say they are con­cerned about the dif­fer­ent strate­gies now be­ing used by crim­i­nals to find vic­tims, amidst sev­er­al re­ports of lar­ce­nies, rob­beries and even home in­va­sions in the com­mu­ni­ty for the year thus far.

The World Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion de­clared the Ebo­la dis­ease out­break caused by a rare virus in Con­go and neigh­bor­ing Ugan­da a pub­lic health emer­gency of in­ter­na­tion­al con­cern on Sun­day, af­ter more than 300 sus­pect­ed cas­es and 88 deaths.

Far­ley Au­gus­tine has called for ac­count­abil­i­ty and a thor­ough in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the dis­ap­pear­ance of two-year-old An­ge­lo To­bias-Plaza, who was re­port­ed miss­ing on Mon­day last week, say­ing To­ba­go is “hurt­ing” as the child re­mains miss­ing.