With a spe­cial Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Gen­er­al Coun­cil on to­day, for­mer PNM ex­ec­u­tive elec­tions can­di­date Krys­tle Hor­wood has called for the par­ty to post­pone its con­stituen­cy elec­tions, which start on Wednes­day, and in­sti­tute an in­de­pen­dent au­dit of the mem­bers’ reg­is­ter to ad­dress long­stand­ing is­sues.

The dra­mat­ic up­lift of parts of Trinidad’s south­ern coast­line fol­low­ing twin earth­quakes in Venezuela last Wednes­day, is be­ing linked to a chain of af­ter­shocks and fault move­ments ex­tend­ing across the re­gion, ac­cord­ing to ge­ol­o­gist and ex­plo­ration man­ag­er Xavier Moo­nan.

At­tor­neys rep­re­sent­ing Christo­pher “Chris Must List” Hugh­es have writ­ten to Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der, for­mal­ly re­quest­ing the lift­ing of an Or­der of De­por­ta­tion which is pre­vent­ing him from re­turn­ing to T&T for his tri­al, which is due to get un­der­way next month.

Sit­ting along­side the Tem­blado­ra dock cur­rent­ly, wait­ing for de­par­ture, is the R/V Falkor (too). In­side, an­tic­i­pa­tion is build­ing for an ex­pe­di­tion that promis­es to re­veal one of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s great­est mys­ter­ies, the deep sea be­neath its own wa­ters.

Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der has re­spond­ed to a re­cent re­port from the UK Visas and Im­mi­gra­tion de­part­ment de­tail­ing the num­ber of gangs in T&T, not­ing that there was some in­con­sis­ten­cy be­tween the in­for­ma­tion con­tained in the re­port and in­tel­li­gence lo­cal­ly.

With some To­bag­on­ian pa­tients trans­ferred to Trinidad for spe­cial­ist care and fac­ing ex­tend­ed waits be­fore treat­ment, To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) Deputy Chief Sec­re­tary Dr Faith Breb­nor says many res­i­dents don’t re­alise how good they have it in To­ba­go’s health sys­tem.

To­bag­o­ni­ans are mourn­ing the pass­ing of renowned singer Os­car Ben­jamin, aka Os­car B, who died on Sun­day morn­ing af­ter ail­ing for some time.

Four lo­cal men were ar­rest­ed and 15 Venezue­lan na­tion­als were de­tained dur­ing a se­ries of tar­get­ed an­ti-crime op­er­a­tions across the South­ern Di­vi­sion on Sat­ur­day. The co­or­di­nat­ed ex­er­cis­es, which spanned sev­er­al hours, tar­get­ed both drug of­fens­es and il­le­gal im­mi­gra­tion.

A sus­pend­ed Po­lice Con­sta­ble has been ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with al­le­ga­tions of kid­nap­ping and sex­u­al of­fences in­volv­ing a 20-year-old woman, fol­low­ing an in­ves­ti­ga­tion by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS).

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has re­fused to com­ment on an al­leged plot in­volv­ing three promi­nent busi­ness per­sons to mur­der her and oth­er mem­bers of her gov­ern­ment.

Busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed, 52 and his wife, Genevieve Hadeed, 42, have been de­tained as part of an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to an al­leged con­spir­a­cy to mur­der, ac­cord­ing to search war­rants is­sued in their names and signed by High Court Mas­ter Va­lene Guer­ra-Abra­ham on June 24. How­ev­er, the doc­u­ments do not dis­close the iden­ti­ty of any in­tend­ed vic­tim or vic­tims.

The de­ten­tion of busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed, his wife, Genevieve Hadeed, and her aunt, Star Sab­ga, has drawn mixed re­ac­tions from econ­o­mists and se­cu­ri­ty ex­perts over whether the high-pro­file in­ves­ti­ga­tion could af­fect in­vestor con­fi­dence in Trinidad and To­ba­go.