Min­is­ter of Cul­ture and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment Michelle Ben­jamin has ac­knowl­edged the con­cerns raised by the Eman­ci­pa­tion Sup­port Com­mit­tee of Trinidad and To­ba­go (ES­CTT) over gov­ern­ment fund­ing but says re­form of the fes­ti­val is ur­gent­ly need­ed.

Po­lice Com­plaints Au­thor­i­ty (PCA) Di­rec­tor David West is stand­ing firm on his de­ci­sion to com­ment on the num­ber of fa­tal po­lice shoot­ings since the State of Emer­gency was de­clared.

Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary of the Prison Of­fi­cers As­so­ci­a­tion, Lester Lo­gie, says the pow­ers that be should use the in­tel­li­gence they have about mur­der plots stem­ming from the pris­ons and con­vert it to ev­i­dence.

To­day’s ex­tra­or­di­nary sit­ting of Par­lia­ment to de­bate the ex­ten­sion of the State of Emer­gency (SoE) will al­so con­sid­er a mo­tion to ap­prove Tetron Bar­racks and Staubles Bay, Ch­aguara­mas, as des­ig­nat­ed pris­ons.

The Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al will be re­quired to de­fend yet an­oth­er case brought by re­put­ed gang leader Ra­jaee Ali over be­ing trans­ferred to mil­i­tary fa­cil­i­ties in Ch­aguara­mas and be­ing de­nied ac­cess to his le­gal team.

Ques­tions have been raised over the fail­ure to ful­ly im­ple­ment the rec­om­men­da­tions of the Com­mis­sion of En­quiry that was ap­point­ed in 2010 to look in­to the events sur­round­ing the 1990 at­tempt­ed coup. 

As T&T ob­served the 35th an­niver­sary of the 1990 at­tempt­ed coup, Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro drew a strik­ing par­al­lel be­tween those dark days and the cur­rent cli­mate, warn­ing that the coun­try is again nav­i­gat­ing “try­ing times”.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice is seek­ing the pub­lic’s as­sis­tance in iden­ti­fy­ing a man found dead in the Cunu­pia dis­trict back in April last year.

Po­lice said around 3 pm Isa­iah Pem­ber­ton, of Priz­gar Lands, Laven­tille went to a beach be­hind Five Is­lands Wa­ter­park, Ch­aguara­mas with rel­a­tives. 

A 65-year-old man was killed af­ter he ran in­to the path of a van on the Uri­ah But­ler High­way on Sat­ur­day af­ter­noon.

Po­lice seized two home­made shot­guns, re­cov­ered stolen cash, and ar­rest­ed sev­er­al sus­pects in a se­ries of an­ti-crime op­er­a­tions across Trinidad be­tween Fri­day and Sun­day.

On East Grove Main Road, a busy stretch in George­town, Guyana, a dou­bles shed stands at the road­side. Over­look­ing the small tent is a Movi­eTowne com­plex rem­i­nis­cent of Wright­son Road in Port-of-Spain. Massy Stores and Star­bucks are al­so part of the space—all sights fa­mil­iar to any Trin­bag­on­ian.