Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley yes­ter­day an­nounced that he had set up a Com­mu­ni­ty Re­cov­ery Pro­gramme team—aimed at good or­der—to help rec­on­cile dif­fer­ences with­in trou­bled com­mu­ni­ties who were in­volved in protests ear­li­er this week. He said he saw it as an ap­pendage to the Re­cov­ery (Roadmap) pro­gramme.

There was ev­i­dence in Tues­day’s protests in Port-of-Spain of peo­ple with po­lit­i­cal am­bi­tions as­so­ci­at­ing with crim­i­nal el­e­ments - and what was an­tic­i­pat­ed by protest or­gan­is­ers was a far worse sit­u­a­tion than what oc­curred. How­ev­er, po­lice did their job to pre­vent or­gan­is­ers from per­pe­trat­ing a worse sit­u­a­tion.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has urged au­thor­i­ties prob­ing the re­cent killings of Mor­vant res­i­dents Joel Ja­cob, Noel Di­a­mond and Is­rael Clin­ton to ex­pe­dite mat­ters or else the wounds from the sit­u­a­tion will fes­ter and al­low “those who want to mis­lead and mis­guide to have an open field to op­er­ate.”

Jef­fer­son Mose­ley, the fa­ther of mur­dered po­lice of­fi­cer PC Allen Mose­ley, is seek­ing an ur­gent ex­emp­tion from Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Stu­art Young to re­turn home so that he can at­tend his son’s fu­ner­al.

Po­lice Com­plaints Au­thor­i­ty (PCA) head David West says the in­de­pen­dent body has sev­er­al chal­lenges and lim­i­ta­tions, in­clud­ing the re­quest­ed se­ries of amend­ments yet to be ap­proved by the Leg­is­la­tion Re­view Com­mit­tee.

Dis­put­ed land which now hous­es West Park, Diego Mar­tin and which is to be the lo­ca­tion of a recre­ation­al park and $230 mil­lion in gov­ern­ment projects, has made Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley a few en­e­mies, he said yes­ter­day.

Po­lice of­fi­cers liv­ing in hotspots ar­eas and al­so work­ing there are now ex­press­ing con­cern for the safe­ty of their lives.

The com­mon-law hus­band of Or­nel­la Greaves, who was killed along the Beetham High­way dur­ing protests on Tues­day, says he is will­ing to meet with the Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Gary Grif­fith once he (Grif­fith) is will­ing to reach out to him.
Greaves was killed as she was part of a group in­volved in a con­fronta­tion with the po­lice, who were re­spond­ing to one of sev­er­al protests in the cap­i­tal over the killings of Joel Ja­cob, Noel Di­a­mond and Is­rael Clin­ton in Mor­vant by po­lice over the week­end.

Leader of the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar last night called on Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley to be truth­ful with the pub­lic on that is­sue.

At­tor­ney Kei­th Scot­land has been cho­sen as the PNM’s Port-of-Spain South can­di­date, PoS South ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cials an­nounced last night.

Protests by health work­ers around the coun­try are now on hold due to the on­go­ing un­rest around the na­tion’s cap­i­tal and on­go­ing dis­cus­sion with re­spec­tive Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ties (RHAs).

A 16-year-old boy is now in po­lice cus­tody af­ter al­leged­ly stab­bing a home­less man dur­ing an ar­gu­ment on Thurs­day.