Bran­don Lal­be­har­ry has been grant­ed $400,000 bail on a manslaugh­ter charge aris­ing from the al­leged killing of his fa­ther.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is warn­ing cit­i­zens to brace for a pos­si­ble in­crease in elec­tric­i­ty rates, which she says could re­sult from the pend­ing nat­ur­al gas price hike an­nounced by the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC).

If Gov­ern­ment’s Spe­cial Op­er­a­tion Zones (ZOSO) Bill is geared to­wards get­ting rid of peo­ple who have AK-47 and Galil au­to­mat­ic as­sault weapons, the fact that peo­ple’s con­sti­tu­tion­al rights will be tar­get­ed “is a small price to pay,” says De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge.

Pro­tect law-abid­ing cit­i­zens re­sid­ing in “hotspots’’ from be­com­ing col­lat­er­al dam­age and be­ing stig­ma­tised by the Spe­cial Zones law.

Min­is­ter of De­fence Wayne Sturge says he does not an­tic­i­pate the Zone of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions (ZOSOs) to re­main in ef­fect in dif­fer­ent com­mu­ni­ties across T&T for more than five years if the bill be­comes law.

Crim­i­nal de­fence at­tor­ney Ul­ric Sker­ritt is urg­ing Gov­ern­ment to di­vulge more in­for­ma­tion on the in­tro­duc­tion of Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions (ZOSOs), as he feels most of the pub­lic is still not aware of what such a strat­e­gy would en­tail.

The mur­der toll con­tin­ued to climb yes­ter­day, af­ter two women were killed in sep­a­rate in­ci­dents in Tacarigua and Arou­ca.

Af­ter a suc­cess­ful de­but last year, Car­ni­val will un­fold with­out the Ul­ti­mate So­ca Cham­pi­on (USC), a com­pe­ti­tion or­gan­is­ers say helped pro­pel emerg­ing artistes on­to na­tion­al stages but has now been shelved due to a lack of fund­ing and of­fi­cial sup­port.

Two weeks af­ter 63-year-old Ramesh Lal­be­har­ry died fol­low­ing what was ini­tial­ly re­port­ed as a fall from a co­conut tree, homi­cide de­tec­tives have charged his son in con­nec­tion with his death.

While two pre­vi­ous at­tempts in 2024 and 2025 to kill Al­is­tar George failed, gun­men re­turned yes­ter­day morn­ing and cor­nered the fa­ther of two in Bel­mont and opened fire on him, killing him in­stant­ly.

In­de­pen­dent sen­a­tors have pushed back at the Prime Min­is­ter af­ter she ques­tioned their in­tegri­ty, brand­ing them “hyp­ocrites” and “bootlick­ers.”

Less than a week af­ter warn­ing that non-per­form­ing sec­re­taries would be re­moved, Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine says his ad­min­is­tra­tion will ex­pand To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) di­vi­sions from sev­en to as many as 11.