Op­po­si­tion MP for Arou­ca/Lopinot and for­mer na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty min­is­ter, Mar­vin Gon­za­les, says the Op­po­si­tion can­not sup­port the ex­ten­sion of the State of Emer­gency (SoE) be­cause the Gov­ern­ment has not pro­vid­ed suf­fi­cient ev­i­dence to jus­ti­fy an­oth­er emer­gency de­c­la­ra­tion.

De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge says the Gov­ern­ment will rein­tro­duce the Zone of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Bill and in­sists it will pass even with­out Op­po­si­tion sup­port.

Shock and hor­ror greet­ed To­ba­go fire­fight­ers ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing as they re­spond­ed to a fa­tal crash in Bon Ac­cord in­volv­ing one of their own.

One day af­ter an uniden­ti­fied man was struck and killed while try­ing to cross the east­bound lane of the Beetham High­way, po­lice are re­port­ing that there has been a 41 per cent de­crease in the num­ber of road traf­fic deaths for the year thus far.

With four po­lice of­fi­cers charged and a fifth ar­rest­ed re­cent­ly, Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro is warn­ing of­fi­cers to re­frain from en­gag­ing in crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ties.

A jour­nal­ist and a gen­tle­man. That is how vet­er­an broad­cast jour­nal­ist Edi­son Carr is be­ing re­mem­bered by col­leagues re­act­ing to news of his pass­ing.

A High Court Judge has or­dered over $500,000 in com­pen­sa­tion for a woman, who was de­nied a dis­abil­i­ty grant be­cause she was strand­ed abroad due to the clo­sure of this coun­try’s bor­ders dur­ing the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic. 

An en­gi­neer from Mar­aval has lost a law­suit over be­ing pros­e­cut­ed for mur­der­ing his wife in 2018.

Par­ents of stu­dents at­tend­ing Bel­mont Sec­ondary School have in­ten­si­fied calls for ur­gent in­ter­ven­tion from ed­u­ca­tion au­thor­i­ties, warn­ing they are pre­pared to shut down the in­sti­tu­tion for a day if long­stand­ing con­cerns over lead­er­ship, safe­ty and stu­dent wel­fare are not ad­dressed.

Four street food ven­dors op­er­at­ing at the Cross Cross­ing food strip in San Fer­nan­do faced evic­tion yes­ter­day af­ter fail­ing to set­tle out­stand­ing rent owed to the San Fer­nan­do City Cor­po­ra­tion (SFCC).

South­ern Di­vi­sion women po­lice are send­ing a clear mes­sage to the pub­lic that they are a force to be reck­oned with and are com­mit­ted to curb­ing crime while keep­ing com­mu­ni­ties safe.

A 51-year-old Beetham man is be­ing treat­ed for a gun­shot wound he sus­tained af­ter an ar­gu­ment with an­oth­er man in his neigh­bour­hood on Thurs­day night.