To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine said the three new po­lice posts in To­ba­go will be ful­ly op­er­a­tional with­in a week.

The Fire­Pow­er Fire­works rep­re­sen­ta­tive who suf­fered third-de­gree burns when fire­works ac­ci­den­tal­ly dis­charged dur­ing prepa­ra­tions for Mon­day’s In­de­pen­dence Day dis­play at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, re­mains in crit­i­cal con­di­tion at the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal.

For­mer Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Gary Grif­fith says Trinidad and To­ba­go’s an­ti-gang leg­is­la­tion is too weak to ef­fec­tive­ly tar­get gang mem­bers, leav­ing po­lice with lit­tle choice but to pur­sue sus­pects for in­di­vid­ual of­fences.

A High Court Judge has re­fused to al­low the Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al to with­hold the iden­ti­ties of its lawyers in a civ­il law­suit brought by a po­lice of­fi­cer on re­mand for mur­der.