Three of the four for­mer in­de­pen­dent sen­a­tors who were re­placed by Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo, say they are dis­ap­point­ed by their re­moval.

Two rel­a­tives of five-year-old Sha­keel Williams re­mained in po­lice cus­tody up to yes­ter­day af­ter­noon, as po­lice sought an­swers about the child’s death.

Al­most one week af­ter a woman and her daugh­ter were kid­napped from their An­dalu­sia Dri­ve, Mar­aval home, res­i­dents in the neigh­bour­hood said yes­ter­day that they are still fear­ful for their safe­ty.

High Court Judge Ricky Rahim is ex­pect­ed to de­ter­mine a law­suit over the Gov­ern­ment’s move to ex­tend the term of Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher by a year be­fore she at­tained re­tire­ment age in May, on No­vem­ber 21. 

Giv­en the se­vere dry spell be­ing ex­pe­ri­enced in the coun­try, a se­nior fire of­fi­cer is ad­vis­ing the pub­lic to take pre­cau­tion­ary mea­sures to pre­vent fires.

An Ari­ma man, who mur­dered his 14-year-old step­daugh­ter af­ter she dis­obeyed his in­struc­tion not to leave the fam­i­ly’s home, has lost his ap­peal over his con­vic­tion.

A man from To­ba­go will face a re­tri­al for mur­der­ing a friend dur­ing an al­co­hol-in­duced ar­gu­ment in 2009. 

Pres­i­dent of the Tas­sa As­so­ci­a­tion Dr Vi­jay Ram­lal-Rai is dis­put­ing claims by Hum­ming­bird Medal re­cip­i­ent Lenny Ku­mar that the tas­sa drum is not a T&T in­ven­tion. He ar­gues that it is more lo­cal than the steel­pan.

A pile up garbage in the vicin­i­ty of near the Bert Al­lette Park on Nor­folk Street, Bel­mont, is a source of con­cern to near­by res­i­dents who are ap­peal­ing for the au­thor­i­ties to take ac­tion to end the dump­ing.

For the sec­ond time in sev­en months, raw sewage is flow­ing from a man­hole in the Sunkist De­vel­op­ment in Philip­pine.

Less than three years af­ter some $36 mil­lion was spent to de­com­mis­sion, re­mod­el and re­fur­bish the Scar­bor­ough Mar­ket, ven­dors are com­plain­ing about poor con­di­tions at the fa­cil­i­ty.

The re­cent ac­qui­si­tion of two new fire ten­ders has been de­scribed as a “woe­ful­ly in­ad­e­quate” so­lu­tion to the se­vere lack of equip­ment and re­sources ham­per­ing the op­er­a­tions of the T&T Fire Ser­vice.