Gov­ern­ment should treat spend­ing on na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty not as an ex­pense, but as an in­vest­ment in pro­tect­ing the coun­try’s peo­ple, econ­o­my, bor­ders and sov­er­eign­ty, says re­gion­al se­cu­ri­ty ex­pert Dr Garvin Heer­ah.

The move by lawyers rep­re­sent­ing Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Hous­ing Phillip Ed­ward Alexan­der to op­pose a move by the Ju­di­cia­ry to livestream his ap­peal in a defama­tion law­suit in­volv­ing Pa­tri­ot­ic Front po­lit­i­cal leader Mick­ela Pan­day was not based on a de­sire to have the case de­ter­mined pri­vate­ly. 

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is de­fend­ing the Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to raise the le­gal age lim­its for gam­bling, mar­i­jua­na, al­co­hol and to­bac­co, while launch­ing a scathing at­tack on the Op­po­si­tion PNM and In­de­pen­dent sen­a­tors who vot­ed against the leg­is­la­tion.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, five men broke in­to Sandy’s Ba­co­let Gar­dens home. The ex-politi­cian, who suf­fered a stroke in 2013, was not harmed dur­ing the or­deal.

TOKYO — As Japan looks over­seas to fill labour short­ages in sec­tors such as agri­cul­ture while al­so seek­ing high­ly skilled pro­fes­sion­als, the Caribbean has an im­por­tant role to play in strength­en­ing ties with the coun­try, says the pres­i­dent of the As­so­ci­a­tion for Pro­mo­tion of In­ter­na­tion­al Co­op­er­a­tion (APIC).

The am­mu­ni­tion was found around 11:30 a.m. when of­fi­cers of the In­ter-Agency Task Force (IATF), con­duct­ing ex­er­cis­es un­der Op­er­a­tion R.E.S.O.L.U.T.E. Shield 2026, searched a wood­en struc­ture near a car park along Low­er Dun­can Street.

The Par­lia­men­tary Op­po­si­tion has re­fused to par­tic­i­pate in Prime Min­is­ter’s Ques­tions, ac­cus­ing the Gov­ern­ment of turn­ing the par­lia­men­tary ex­er­cise in­to a “shame­ful par­lia­men­tary cha­rade” de­signed to shield Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar from scruti­ny.

In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tors Sophia Chote, SC and Fran­cis Lewis are ques­tion­ing whether the Gov­ern­ment has pro­duced enough ev­i­dence to jus­ti­fy re­strict­ing al­co­hol, to­bac­co and cannabis use among adults be­tween 18 and 25, warn­ing that Par­lia­ment should not im­pose sweep­ing age lim­its with­out stronger lo­cal da­ta.

Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe says high lev­els of binge drink­ing among young adults and ear­ly al­co­hol use among school­child­ren show why the Gov­ern­ment can­not re­main a “pas­sive ob­serv­er” and must in­ter­vene to pro­tect young peo­ple.

The Sev­en Seas De­sali­na­tion Plant will re­main out of ser­vice for a fur­ther 24 hours as the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) car­ries out emer­gency re­pairs to a 24-inch main.

The Sen­ate has passed leg­is­la­tion rais­ing the le­gal age for drink­ing al­co­hol and smok­ing to­bac­co in Trinidad and To­ba­go to 21, and for gam­bling and cannabis use to 25, but the Gov­ern­ment failed to at­tract a sin­gle “yes” vote from ei­ther the Op­po­si­tion or In­de­pen­dent bench­es.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors prob­ing the al­leged rob­bery of over $127,000 from a fe­male po­lice con­sta­ble at­tached to the Besson Street Po­lice Sta­tion have sought ad­vice from the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) re­gard­ing charges to be laid against her and four ac­com­plices, in­clud­ing a close male rel­a­tive.