A High Court judge has asked jet ski op­er­a­tors in To­ba­go to con­sid­er lo­ca­tions out­side Pi­geon Point Her­itage Park to so­lic­it clients and launch their wa­ter­craft.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty has ap­pealed to res­i­dents in sev­er­al North-East com­mu­ni­ties to con­serve wa­ter as on­go­ing dry weath­er con­tin­ues to re­duce pro­duc­tion at the North Oropouche Wa­ter Treat­ment Plant.

Rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Cen­tral Bank of Trinidad and To­ba­go met with the To­ba­go Di­vi­sion of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce on Tues­day as part of on­go­ing con­sul­ta­tions with the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty across the coun­try.

Trinidad and To­ba­go ab­stained from a Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) for­eign af­fairs state­ment con­demn­ing on­go­ing mea­sures against Cu­ba and warn­ing against any mil­i­tary ag­gres­sion to­ward the is­land.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar yes­ter­day con­tin­ued to heap praise on this coun­try’s law en­force­ment of­fi­cials, even as crit­i­cisms mount fol­low­ing the fa­tal po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing of Joshua Sama­roo.

The charges against Ka­ia Sealy con­tin­ue to climb. Fol­low­ing a vir­tu­al hear­ing yes­ter­day, Guardian Me­dia was in­formed that four ad­di­tion­al charges were lev­elled against her for al­leged gun and am­mu­ni­tion of­fences.

The fa­ther of Joshua Sama­roo is call­ing for the res­ig­na­tions of the Prime Min­is­ter, Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er and Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter over what he al­leged was a cov­er-up by the po­lice to pro­tect those re­spon­si­ble for his son’s death.

A fire de­stroyed a two-storey con­crete build­ing along the South­ern Main Road in St Mar­garet’s Vil­lage short­ly be­fore 4 am yes­ter­day.

Op­po­si­tion Chief Whip Mar­vin Gon­za­les has ac­cused the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) of fur­ther erod­ing pub­lic con­fi­dence in the jus­tice sys­tem amid con­tro­ver­sy sur­round­ing the Joshua Sama­roo and Ka­ia Sealy mat­ter.

The po­lice are await­ing a crit­i­cal piece of in­for­ma­tion in their probe in­to the fa­tal jet ski in­ci­dent that claimed the life of sev­en-year-old An­gel­i­ca Jo­gie.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has con­firmed that a planned protest sched­uled for to­day out­side the of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) in sup­port of Ka­ia Sealy has not been au­tho­rised.

Hous­ing Min­is­ter and Ca­roni Cen­tral Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment David Lee is urg­ing so­cial me­dia com­men­ta­tors to avoid mak­ing prej­u­di­cial re­marks when dis­cussing trag­ic in­ci­dents in­volv­ing in­di­vid­u­als.