The Trinidad and To­ba­go Na­tion­al Nurs­es As­so­ci­a­tion (TTNNA) is urg­ing cau­tion as the North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA) launch­es its new pa­tient care shut­tle at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex (EWM­SC) in Mt Hope.

Burgess­es of the Siparia Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion are call­ing on the coun­cil to put aside their po­lit­i­cal dif­fer­ences and fo­cus on de­liv­er­ing ser­vices to res­i­dents.

Chedean Na­tion pro­duced one of the great­est come­backs in Li­ma­col WC­PL his­to­ry, pow­er­ing the Guyana Ama­zon War­riors to their maid­en ti­tle with a thrilling two-wick­et vic­to­ry over the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers at the Kens­ing­ton Oval.

Those hop­ing to par­tic­i­pate in To­ba­go Car­ni­val and wor­ried about get­ting to the sis­ter isle will soon know their fate, as the Port Au­thor­i­ty is ex­pect­ed to an­nounce ad­di­tion­al sail­ings of the Buc­coo Reef and T&T Spir­it for Oc­to­ber and No­vem­ber.

Two peo­ple were ar­rest­ed and 271 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion and two ri­fle mag­a­zines were seized dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in Cou­va on Wednes­day.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro says the Po­lice Ser­vice will use crime da­ta to de­ter­mine where to de­ploy its mi­cro units, rather than pub­li­cis­ing their lo­ca­tions in ad­vance.

Al­though Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar told Par­lia­ment that of­fi­cers op­er­at­ing in des­ig­nat­ed closed ar­eas “must use” body-worn cam­eras, the Gov­ern­ment’s new­ly in­tro­duced Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Bill does not make their use manda­to­ry in every cir­cum­stance.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says po­lice of­fi­cers con­duct­ing op­er­a­tions in des­ig­nat­ed spe­cial zones will be re­quired to wear body cam­eras un­der the Gov­ern­ment’s re­vised Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions (ZOSO) leg­is­la­tion.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says Gov­ern­ment’s re­vised Law Re­form (Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions) Bill will re­turn to Par­lia­ment with amend­ments to­mor­row and will re­quire on­ly a sim­ple ma­jor­i­ty to pass in the Sen­ate, rather than the three-fifths spe­cial ma­jor­i­ty that was need­ed when the leg­is­la­tion was first in­tro­duced in Jan­u­ary.

Mas­quer­aders head­ing to To­ba­go Car­ni­val are fac­ing a trans­porta­tion night­mare, with fer­ry tick­ets for sev­er­al key dates sold out less than 24 hours af­ter go­ing on sale.

As the Prison Ser­vice con­tin­ues re­leas­ing high-risk de­tainees to­day, a process that be­gan yes­ter­day, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says she be­lieves law­suits by for­mer de­tainees may not be suc­cess­ful.

Peo­ple de­tained un­der Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) should re­ceive some form of com­pen­sa­tion for the con­di­tions in which they were held, says Pris­ons Of­fi­cers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (POA) pres­i­dent Ger­ard Gor­don.