Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has dis­missed what she de­scribed as ef­forts by “race grifters” and oth­ers to spread racist pro­pa­gan­da, urg­ing sup­port­ers not to be dis­tract­ed by in­flam­ma­to­ry com­men­tary.

Crim­i­nal Bar As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent Is­rael Ra­jah-Khan, SC, has called on judges to treat for­mer at­tor­ney gen­er­al Faris Al-Rawi’s pub­lic com­ments on the Hadeed pre­ven­tive de­ten­tion case as con­tempt of court, ac­cus­ing him of mis­rep­re­sent­ing the Privy Coun­cil’s po­si­tion and dis­cussing mat­ters that re­main be­fore the courts.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath says threats against his life will not pre­vent him from car­ry­ing out his pub­lic du­ties or at­tend­ing com­mu­ni­ty events, stress­ing that the in­creased se­cu­ri­ty around him was ini­ti­at­ed by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) and not re­quest­ed by him.

De­spite con­cerns raised by phar­ma­cy as­so­ci­a­tions over med­ica­tion short­ages un­der the Chron­ic Dis­ease As­sis­tance Pro­gramme (CDAP), the Trinidad and To­ba­go As­so­ci­a­tion of Re­tired Per­sons (TTARP) says it has not re­ceived com­plaints from its mem­bers about be­ing un­able to ac­cess their pre­scrip­tions.

For­mer For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs min­is­ter Dr Amery Browne has re­ject­ed the Gov­ern­ment’s ex­pla­na­tion for Trinidad and To­ba­go’s de­ci­sion to vote against ex­tend­ing the man­date of Unit­ed Na­tions High Com­mis­sion­er for Hu­man Rights Volk­er Türk, ac­cus­ing For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers of of­fer­ing “new ex­cus­es” days af­ter the con­tro­ver­sial vote.

Two peo­ple ac­cused of op­er­at­ing a hu­man traf­fick­ing net­work in To­ba­go are among the lat­est in­di­vid­u­als placed un­der Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) dur­ing the State of Emer­gency.

The search for miss­ing Venezue­lan mi­grant Nikol Lan­dae­ta en­tered its sixth day yes­ter­day as res­cuers combed an Ica­cos swamp in the hope of re­cov­er­ing the moth­er of two, who has been miss­ing since the pirogue she was trav­el­ling in cap­sized off the Erin coast last Sat­ur­day.

Mem­bers of the Rasta­fari com­mu­ni­ty gath­ered for var­i­ous events across the coun­try last Thurs­day, in cel­e­bra­tion of the 134th earth­strong (birth­day) of the late Ethiopi­an Em­per­or Haile Se­lassie I. They sought to urge the pop­u­la­tion to show more love and re­spect for one an­oth­er, re­mind­ing them that sal­va­tion is the on­ly way to Zion.

The State has been or­dered to pay more than $500,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to two broth­ers who were framed by po­lice for mar­i­jua­na traf­fick­ing.

A pro­mot­er has lost its case against a group of ri­vals and Niger­ian singer-song­writer Bur­na Boy, af­ter al­leg­ing they con­spired to hi­jack its bid to host a con­cert in De­cem­ber 2022.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath has dis­missed sug­ges­tions that the re­cent res­ig­na­tions of two di­rec­tors from the Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TSTT) board were linked to in­ter­nal dis­agree­ments or gov­er­nance is­sues, in­sist­ing the de­par­tures were prompt­ed by pro­fes­sion­al com­mit­ments out­side the com­pa­ny.

In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tor An­tho­ny Vieira, SC, is call­ing on young lawyers to con­sid­er be­com­ing pros­e­cu­tors, say­ing the Of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) re­mains sig­nif­i­cant­ly un­der­staffed at a time when Trinidad and To­ba­go con­tin­ues to grap­ple with se­ri­ous crime.