Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les wants the Gov­ern­ment to bring the ev­i­dence to show that White­hall is un­fit for use.

Min­is­ter of De­fence, Wayne Sturge, says he and Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty, Roger Alexan­der, along with Min­is­ter of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Sean Sobers, held talks with for­mer UNC sen­a­tor Ger­ald Ramdeen in a meet­ing that last­ed over two hours yes­ter­day.

As Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar push­es ahead with her promise to re­vive the Cou­va Chil­dren’s Hos­pi­tal, the T&T Na­tion­al Nurs­ing As­so­ci­a­tion (TTNNA) says there is no need for it and there are not even enough pae­di­atric nurs­es to staff the fa­cil­i­ty.

Board mem­bers from four of the coun­try’s lead­ing per­form­ing arts in­sti­tu­tions have ten­dered their res­ig­na­tions.

New­ly mint­ed Min­is­ter of Agri­cul­ture, Land and Fish­eries, Ravi Rati­ram, says he plans to tack­le a 60 per cent staff short­age across his min­istry, be­fore slash­ing the $7.3 bil­lion food im­port bill by $2 bil­lion.

Nine years af­ter un­der­go­ing open-heart surgery, 26-year-old Ra­keesh Roodal is now bat­tling new med­ical prob­lems that have left him de­pen­dent on oth­ers for ba­sic mo­bil­i­ty and dai­ly care.

While San Fer­nan­do East MP Bri­an Man­ning re­mains silent on his nar­row vic­to­ry in the April 28 gen­er­al elec­tion, an­a­lysts say he must work hard to re­gain the elec­torate’s sup­port if the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) hopes to main­tain its hold on the seat.

What was sup­posed to have been a birth­day cel­e­bra­tion turned in­to sor­row af­ter 14-year-old Sameer Rag­bir drowned at a beach in Ma­yaro on Mon­day.

While for­mer po­lice com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith is op­ti­mistic about the per­for­mance of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der and De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge, he ques­tions the split in re­spon­si­bil­i­ties be­tween the two min­istries and the pro­posed Stand Your Ground leg­is­la­tion.

A Mt D’or Road, Champs Fleurs man was grant­ed bail af­ter ap­pear­ing in court on a charge of bribery re­lat­ed to the April 28, Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

A pair of po­lice of­fi­cers have been giv­en the all clear to pur­sue a law­suit over be­ing trans­ferred from an elite tac­ti­cal unit af­ter be­ing in­ter­ro­gat­ed over po­lice uni­forms that went miss­ing from an of­fice.

A 23-year-old labour­er, who al­leged­ly sodomised a 12-year-old boy, has been grant­ed $300,000 bail.