Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe says the in­de­pen­dent ex­pert pan­el re­view­ing the death of six-year-old Jash­er Fran­cois has been grant­ed a one-week ex­ten­sion to com­plete their re­port.

Mere days af­ter Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar called on the man­age­ment of Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) to “sort out the mess” at the air­line, one of the air­line’s top ex­ec­u­tives has been sus­pend­ed.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is di­rect­ing all ques­tions to De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge, on whether or not a re­cent se­nior State board ap­pointee is the at­tor­ney with close ties to the Gov­ern­ment who is al­leged­ly among those mak­ing death threats to him.

Two days af­ter a hor­rif­ic ac­ci­dent claimed the life of Pub­lic Trans­port Ser­vice Cor­po­ra­tion (PTSC) bus dri­ver Mun­saf Khan, col­leagues joined his fam­i­ly and friends to give him a glow­ing farewell.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has urged the Gov­ern­ment and Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to take im­me­di­ate ac­tion to sup­port dis­placed work­ers across Trinidad and To­ba­go.

The Ro­man Catholic com­mu­ni­ty is mourn­ing the death of a priest who col­lapsed and died while con­duct­ing Mass yes­ter­day.

Fish­er­men in San Fer­nan­do are call­ing on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to rein in Agri­cul­ture, Land and Fish­eries Min­is­ter Ravi Rati­ram, who they ac­cuse of al­low­ing a par­ty boat op­er­a­tor to use the San Fer­nan­do Fish­ing Cen­tre for pri­vate events.

Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Pub­lic Util­i­ties, Clyde El­der, says the Gov­ern­ment re­mains com­mit­ted to trans­form­ing the wa­ter de­liv­ery ser­vice in To­ba­go.

A 46-year-old man has ap­peared be­fore a Mas­ter of the High Court charged with the mur­der of Ja­son Fran­cis Hur­dle, who was killed on Au­gust 2.

Po­lice have de­tained 15 Venezue­lan na­tion­als who al­leged­ly en­tered the coun­try il­le­gal­ly dur­ing an ear­ly morn­ing op­er­a­tion in the South­ern Di­vi­sion yes­ter­day.

A Paramin teenag­er was beat­en and robbed of his car on Wednes­day night, af­ter al­leged­ly re­fus­ing to drop a man he knew at a par­tic­u­lar lo­ca­tion.

A 51-year-old home­less man was ar­rest­ed on Tues­day, af­ter break­ing in­to the Pan Amer­i­can Life In­sur­ance of­fice at Up­per St Vin­cent Street, Port-of-Spain.