The caus­es of fam­i­ly break­down are mul­ti­fac­to­r­i­al and re­quire a re­set­ting of the norms with­in so­ci­ety and a na­tion­al fo­cus on re­spect for women and the fam­i­ly.

The son of the ex­ec­u­tive chair of the Eman­ci­pa­tion Sup­port Com­mit­tee was gunned down in Bel­mont yes­ter­day.

Less than two weeks be­fore po­lice of­fi­cer Shel­don Pe­ter­son was killed by an armed man out­side the gro­cery where he worked in Ari­ma, he ex­pressed fears about his per­son­al safe­ty, as he be­lieved too much-un­want­ed at­ten­tion was be­ing at­tract­ed to the busi­ness op­er­a­tions.

Lament­ing that crim­i­nals were with­in her com­mu­ni­ty, the moth­er of En­ri­co and grand­moth­er of Ani­ka Guer­ra, who were mur­dered in Moru­ga in Au­gust, said yes­ter­day she doesn’t know who to trust—in­clud­ing the po­lice.

In sol­i­dar­i­ty with of­fi­cers who have been man­dat­ed to re­turn their tac­ti­cal uni­forms, Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Ju­nior Ben­jamin says he will be wear­ing his kha­ki uni­form.

A fe­male fire of­fi­cer, who was al­leged­ly in­jured while test­ing a wood­en lad­der ear­li­er this year, has made good on her threat to sue the State for com­pen­sa­tion. 

The head of the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) Spe­cial Vic­tims De­part­ment (SVD) says in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to re­cent in­ci­dents of school bul­ly­ing and vi­o­lence are near­ing com­ple­tion.

Of­fi­cials at the Ste Madeleine Sec­ondary School have start­ed check­ing the bags of stu­dents en­ter­ing the com­pound af­ter a stu­dent brought a knife in­to the school.

Co­cal/Mafek­ing coun­cil­lor Renelle Kisoon yes­ter­day called for road safe­ty mea­sures at Grand La­goon junc­tion in Ma­yaro, where the ac­ci­dent that took the life of Siri­ta Mo­hammed oc­curred last week.

Gov­ern­ment Sen­a­tor Renu­ka Sagram­s­ingh-Sook­lal ve­he­ment­ly de­fend­ed the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s racial di­ver­si­ty. She al­so ac­cused the Op­po­si­tion of on­ly pur­port­ing to be the cham­pi­ons of peo­ple of East In­di­an de­scent when in re­al­i­ty the PNM has more tal­ent amongst that eth­nic group.

Ja­maica has signed a Mem­o­ran­dum of Un­der­stand­ing (MoU) with two Cana­da-based com­pa­nies for the ad­vance­ment of nu­clear tech­nolo­gies adop­tion here.

Act­ing Prime Min­is­ter and Min­is­ter of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries Stu­art Young toured the Men­to plat­form at the TOF­CO fab­ri­ca­tion yard on Wednes­day.