Pres­i­dent of the As­sem­bly of South­ern Lawyers (ASL), Saira Lakhan, says the Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to re­voke the Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) is­sued against Do­minic and Genevieve Hadeed shows the need for con­tin­ued over­sight of emer­gency pow­ers, while cau­tion­ing against pre­judg­ing the out­come of the on­go­ing crim­i­nal in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and the Gov­ern­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go are mourn­ing the death of a Unit­ed States ser­vice mem­ber of Trinidad and To­ba­go her­itage who was among three Amer­i­can mil­i­tary per­son­nel killed in the line of du­ty in Jor­dan.

The North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA) has strong­ly con­demned state­ments made by the pres­i­dent of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Na­tion­al Nurs­es’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTNNA), dis­miss­ing claims re­gard­ing its nurs­ing staff shift arrange­ments as false and mis­lead­ing. In a state­ment re­leased on Wednes­day, the NCRHA de­nied as­ser­tions that nurs­es were as­signed to work four-hour shifts or suf­fered fi­nan­cial dis­ad­van­tages.

Of­fi­cers as­signed to Op­er­a­tion R.E.S.O.L.U.T.E. Shield seized a firearm, am­mu­ni­tion, and a stolen mo­tor ve­hi­cle dur­ing an in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tion in the Mor­vant and Laven­tille dis­tricts.

In a ma­jor sup­pres­sion ex­er­cise, of­fi­cers of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) de­stroyed ap­prox­i­mate­ly 5,000 ful­ly grown cannabis trees val­ued at $5 mil­lion in the La Lune For­est, Moru­ga, on Tues­day.

An es­caped de­tainee from the Im­mi­gra­tion De­ten­tion Cen­tre (IDC) has been re­cap­tured fol­low­ing an in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tion by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) in Arou­ca.

Less than two months af­ter Caribbean Air­lines end­ed ser­vice to Do­mini­ca, a new air­line will once again con­nect Trinidad and Do­mini­ca.

Twen­ty six young peo­ple brought the cur­tain down on this year’s Pres­i­dent’s Pan Camp with a per­for­mance at Pres­i­dent’s House on Sat­ur­day, cap­ping six days of mu­sic, men­tor­ship and per­son­al de­vel­op­ment aimed at build­ing con­fi­dence, lead­er­ship and re­silience.

Stu­dents at Mt D’Or Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School will have greater ac­cess to steel­pan ed­u­ca­tion fol­low­ing the do­na­tion of a set of steel­pans from the Sco­tia­bank Foun­da­tion and Unit­ed Way Trinidad and To­ba­go (UWTT).

The Min­istry of Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion and Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence (MPAAI) is clar­i­fy­ing re­ports sur­round­ing a da­ta cen­tre project.

The Privy Coun­cil has list­ed an ap­peal by the State in the le­gal pro­ceed­ings in­volv­ing busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed and his wife Genevieve Hadeed.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos, Jul 21, CMC – The Bar­ba­dos gov­ern­ment Tues­day said that the state fu­ner­al of Na­tion­al Hero and for­mer West In­dies crick­et cap­tain, Sir Garfield Sobers, will take place on Ju­ly 29, at the Kens­ing­ton Oval.