For­mer trade and in­dus­try min­is­ter Stephen Cadiz says Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s read­ing of the ri­ot act to her min­is­ters and Mem­bers of Par­lia­ment (MPs) is on­ly to ap­peal to her UNC sup­port­ers.

The Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer (CEO) of the Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) is be­ing ac­cused of de­lib­er­ate­ly leav­ing out a key para­graph from the dis­put­ed 2017 Cab­i­net note in a let­ter to the com­pa­ny’s new chair­man. In the let­ter, he cau­tioned that the board does not have the au­thor­i­ty to uni­lat­er­al­ly re­new mul­ti­ple con­tracts with­out gov­ern­ment ap­proval.

Mi­nor­i­ty Leader Kelvon Mor­ris says the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly is spend­ing mil­lions on over­seas trips while lo­cal busi­ness­es, work­ers, and even Gov­ern­ment of­fices can’t get paid or sup­plied with ba­sics like toi­let pa­per.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says her Gov­ern­ment’s sus­pen­sion of the Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) and re­view of the Un­em­ploy­ment Re­lief Pro­gramme (URP) has trig­gered push­back from what she de­scribed as the “deep state” and “the bel­ly of the un­der­world.

For­mer po­lice com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith is ful­ly en­dors­ing Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro for what Grif­fith says is his in-your-face ap­proach to crim­i­nals.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says a third au­top­sy may have to be con­duct­ed to de­ter­mine the cause of death of six-year-old Jash­er Fran­cois.

The younger broth­er of Coast Guard sailor Kieron Si­mon is still call­ing for an­swers and clar­i­ty on the de­tails of his dis­ap­pear­ance, as they ob­served what would have been his 37th birth­day yes­ter­day.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar yes­ter­day ful­filled an­oth­er chap­ter of her long-stand­ing com­mit­ment to for­mer Ca­roni (1975) Ltd work­ers, pre­sent­ing leas­es for agri­cul­tur­al land at Pic­ton 1 to more than 200 of them.

Two years af­ter Aver­zon Miller van­ished, her fam­i­ly says they are still liv­ing in lim­bo, wait­ing for con­fir­ma­tion about whether a de­com­posed body on the beach is hers.

A 20-year-old woman is be­ing treat­ed at the San­gre Grande Hos­pi­tal, af­ter she was doused with muri­at­ic acid in an at­tack in Rio Claro on Mon­day.

A 23-year-old sus­pect from Rio Claro, who al­leged­ly chopped his un­cle af­ter he was re­fused a cig­a­rette, has been de­tained by the po­lice.

Mex­i­co sent 26 high-rank­ing car­tel fig­ures to the Unit­ed States Tues­day in the lat­est ma­jor deal with the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion as Amer­i­can au­thor­i­ties ratch­et up pres­sure on crim­i­nal net­works smug­gling drugs across the bor­der.