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Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said yesterday Cabinet issued no directive and reached no agreement on a private move by Works and Infrastructure Minister Jack Warner to collect signatures for a pro-death penalty petition.

Scores of workers from the Forestry Division of the Ministry of Agriculture braved the rain in protest outside the Parliament yesterday to show disapproval with Government’s decision to establish a Forestry Authority.

Hours after Justice Minister Herbert Volney declared his open support of his Cabinet colleague Works and Infrastructure Minister, Jack Warner, for a petition to implement the death penalty, Warner suspended the initiative.

A couple, both foreign nationals, are expected to appear before a Port-of-Spain magistrate on Monday after a yacht they were residing in was found to contain a substantial cache of illegal arms and ammunition.

Relatives of slain fishermen Kassinath and Ravi Ramsaran are prepared to protest now that the petition by Jack Warner to support the hanging is no more.

A 43-year-old Princes Town labourer and two Penal men held following a robbery in Debe last Thursday are expected to be placed on identification parades today.

Principal and proprietor of Maraval-based Blackman Private School Arlene Blackman yesterday appeared before a Port-of-Spain magistrate accused of assaulting two of her pupils.

Attorney General Anand Ramlogan is investigating the award of a $900,772 contract to Trinidad and Tobago Air Support Company (TTASC) for use of a light aircraft by the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service.