Busi­ness­man Gary Aboud has claimed that the Syr­i­an-Lebanese com­mu­ni­ty in Trinidad and To­ba­go is liv­ing un­der an “omi­nous cloud of sus­pi­cion” amid what he de­scribed as po­lit­i­cal hate cam­paigns tar­get­ing the com­mu­ni­ty.

Some 36 years af­ter the Ju­ly 27, 1990 coup at­tempt, in­tel­li­gence gath­er­ing is “not one step bet­ter” and Trinidad and To­ba­go is at a “de­mo­c­ra­t­ic cross­roads” un­der the cur­rent UNC Gov­ern­ment.

Calami­ty was avert­ed at the Scar­bor­ough port on Mon­day night af­ter a run­away truck, loaded with con­crete blocks, al­most crashed in­to a car with a woman seat­ed in­side. The dra­ma un­fold­ed around 10.30 pm as ramp is­sues aboard the MV Gold­en Car­ri­er car­go ves­sel caused dam­aged to at least three ve­hi­cles as they at­tempt­ed to dis­em­bark.

Busi­ness­woman Star Sab­ga has been re­leased from de­ten­tion at the Women's Prison in Gold­en Grove af­ter spend­ing just over a month at the State fa­cil­i­ty.

Cheese mak­er Star Sab­ga is now at home af­ter be­ing re­leased on house ar­rest late Mon­day night fol­low­ing the ex­piry of a tem­po­rary stay grant­ed by the High Court.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro has or­dered a probe in­to the leaked tele­phone con­ver­sa­tion be­tween Genevieve Hadeed and Star Sab­ga, which be­gan cir­cu­lat­ing on so­cial me­dia over the week­end.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says she can­not com­ment on the specifics of the on­go­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to an al­leged plot to as­sas­si­nate her and se­nior mem­bers of her Gov­ern­ment, but in­sists the probe has widened sig­nif­i­cant­ly and now in­volves mul­ti­ple for­eign agen­cies.

For nine har­row­ing days, Shan­non Mo­hammed and five fel­low fish­er­men drift­ed across the At­lantic Ocean in a small dinghy af­ter fire ripped through the long­line fish­ing ves­sel St Vin­cent VII, forc­ing them to aban­don ship hun­dreds of miles from land.

Cheese mak­er Star Sab­ga re­mained in prison up to late yes­ter­day, even as a High Court judge or­dered her re­lease on house ar­rest while she con­tin­ues to be in­ves­ti­gat­ed over a pur­port­ed plot to kill key Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials.

At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie has ex­pressed con­fi­dence in both Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der and the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice de­spite crit­i­cism over the Gov­ern­ment’s han­dling of the high-pro­file Hadeed mat­ter, in­sist­ing he sup­ports the ac­tions tak­en in the pub­lic in­ter­est.

Blue Wa­ters Prod­ucts Ltd ex­ec­u­tive chair­man Do­minic Hadeed re­turned to the com­pa­ny’s Or­ange Grove, Trinci­ty head­quar­ters yes­ter­day for the first time since his re­lease from pre­ven­tive de­ten­tion, re­ceiv­ing an emo­tion­al re­cep­tion from em­ploy­ees who ap­plaud­ed, em­braced him and wel­comed him back to work.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has ac­cused crit­ics of her Gov­ern­ment’s an­ti-crime cam­paign of de­lib­er­ate­ly at­tempt­ing to in­flame ten­sions be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go’s two ma­jor eth­nic groups, as part of what she de­scribed as a broad­er ef­fort to un­der­mine the coun­try’s pro­tec­tive ser­vices.