At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Faris Al-Rawi is de­fend­ing Gov­ern­ment’s mul­ti-pronged ap­proach to get crime un­der con­trol as he said stricter mea­sures, amend­ed leg­is­la­tion and a re­newed law en­force­ment thrust is be­ing used to at­tack crim­i­nals on all fronts.

The Cen­tral Bank of Trinidad and To­ba­go (CBTT) lat­est Mon­e­tary Re­port has ex­plained that T&T’s econ­o­my can be fur­ther stim­u­lat­ed if there is an end to the in­ter­rup­tion of nat­ur­al gas pro­duc­tion.

THIRU­VANAN­THA­PU­RAM, In­dia – Vet­er­an open­er Lendl Sim­mons stroked his first half-cen­tu­ry in near­ly four years while Nicholas Pooran made an in­stant im­pact his first match back from a ball-tam­per­ing ban, as West In­dies brushed aside pow­er­hous­es In­dia by eight wick­ets to lev­el the three-match se­ries 1-1 on Sun­day.

Med­ical mar­i­jua­na has been in the news re­cent­ly as a treat­ment for a va­ri­ety of med­ical con­di­tions, in­clud­ing glau­co­ma, pain and nau­sea from can­cer chemother­a­py treat­ment and oth­er ill­ness­es. Doc­tor of Ori­en­tal Med­i­cine Dr Li­onel May­ers, mean­while, said there are oth­er al­ter­na­tives be­sides med­ical mar­i­jua­na for treat­ing ail­ments and dis­eases, some that are hun­dreds of years old that peo­ple are re­dis­cov­er­ing.

This coun­try has a do­mes­tic vi­o­lence cri­sis. That is a fact that can­not be ig­nored. Which is why it is so per­plex­ing that a dire sit­u­a­tion has been al­lowed to de­vel­op a crit­i­cal short­age of emer­gency shel­ters for women and fam­i­lies in need of a safe haven from abuse.