De­fence at­tor­ney Criston J Williams is call­ing for the ap­point­ment of an in­spec­tor of pris­ons to in­de­pen­dent­ly in­spect the prison at Teteron Bar­racks.

The Min­istry of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment is ad­vis­ing of bush­fire risk dur­ing the dry sea­son and is urg­ing en­er­gy fa­cil­i­ties to take mea­sures to ad­dress the threat.

Min­is­ter of De­fence, Wayne Sturge, says ques­tions touch­ing on the state of mil­i­tary as­sets, their ac­qui­si­tion, or re­quests for such as­sets, par­tic­u­lar­ly where dis­cussed in cam­era with al­lies, would not be en­ter­tained.

The Min­istry of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty says the Mi­grant Reg­is­tra­tion Frame­work is be­ing im­ple­ment­ed in three phas­es as part of a process to reg­is­ter mi­grants.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Man­u­fac­tur­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTMA) has raised con­cern over de­layed Val­ue Added Tax re­funds and the ef­fect on busi­ness­es in sev­er­al sec­tors.

Two men are ex­pect­ed to be charged with pos­ses­sion of firearm and pos­ses­sion of am­mu­ni­tion fol­low­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in San Fer­nan­do on Thurs­day.

A man was ar­rest­ed af­ter po­lice seized nar­cotics with an es­ti­mat­ed street val­ue of more than $23 mil­lion dur­ing an ex­er­cise in the Fyz­abad dis­trict on Thurs­day.

A Unit­ed States leg­is­la­tor, who last month had been crit­i­cal of Ja­maica over its state­ment on Cu­ba, is now sup­port­ive of the Caribbean coun­try’s po­si­tion on dis­con­tin­u­ing the cur­rent arrange­ment re­gard­ing the de­ploy­ment of Cuban med­ical pro­fes­sion­als in the pub­lic health sec­tor.

Two Venezue­lan na­tion­als were ar­rest­ed and a quan­ti­ty of un­cus­tomed goods seized dur­ing a mo­bile pa­trol ex­er­cise in the San­ta Flo­ra dis­trict on Thurs­day.

In­dia mo­tored in­to the Twen­ty20 World Cup fi­nal af­ter beat­ing Eng­land by just sev­en runs in a high-scor­ing semi­fi­nal at Wankhede Sta­di­um on Thurs­day.

The Con­gress of the Peo­ple (COP) has ex­pressed sup­port for the Gov­ern­ment’s de­c­la­ra­tion of a State of Emer­gency, say­ing the mea­sure al­lows broad­er crime re­duc­tion strate­gies to take root while pro­tect­ing law-abid­ing cit­i­zens.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Can­cer So­ci­ety (TTCS), in part­ner­ship with the Sco­tia­bank Foun­da­tion, has ex­pand­ed its an­ti-smok­ing and an­ti-va­p­ing ed­u­ca­tion cam­paign to sec­ondary schools in To­ba­go.