A 38-year-old woman and 17-year-old son re­main in po­lice cus­tody, as of­fi­cers try to piece to­geth­er the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing the al­leged abuse and false im­pris­on­ment of Sabi­ta Bas­deo.

For­mer hous­ing min­is­ter and Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment Camille Robin­son-Reg­is has raised con­cerns over the pro­posed award of $3.4 bil­lion in pub­lic hous­ing con­tracts to 11 con­trac­tors, ques­tion­ing the trans­paren­cy and le­gal­i­ty of the process.

Sev­en-year-old An­gel­i­ca Jo­gie died from mul­ti­ple trau­mat­ic in­juries, par­tic­u­lar­ly to the head, af­ter a jet ski op­er­a­tor ran in­to her fam­i­ly at Pi­geon Point beach in To­ba­go last week.

The T&T power­boat fra­ter­ni­ty and Truck­ers As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T lost long­stand­ing mem­ber Robert Charles “Peb­bles” Tardieu.

Point Fortin May­or Clyde James of­fi­cial­ly de­clared the launch of Point Fortin Bor­ough Day cel­e­bra­tions on Sat­ur­day, de­spite on­go­ing set­backs this year.

For­mer St Vin­cent and the Grenadines Prime Min­is­ter Dr Ralph Gon­salves be­lieves For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers may be with­hold­ing key de­tails about the Nevis re­treat from Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar.

Po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst Derek Ram­samooj says Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar must aban­don what he de­scribed as her “Trump-like” and ego­tis­ti­cal ap­proach to Cari­com and ac­cept that Trinidad and To­ba­go is no longer the re­gion­al su­per­pow­er it once was.

While An­tigua and Bar­bu­da sup­ports T&T’s up­com­ing bid for a seat on the Unit­ed Na­tions Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil (UN­SC), for­mer St Vin­cent prime min­is­ter Dr Ralph Gon­salves be­lieves T&T’s bid would em­bar­rass Cari­com due to this coun­try’s pro-Unit­ed States po­si­tion.

A po­lice of­fi­cer has lost his le­gal chal­lenge over be­ing re­tired on med­ical grounds af­ter he missed work for over a decade fol­low­ing a se­ri­ous job-re­lat­ed car ac­ci­dent.

The coun­try’s high­est court has ruled that the tim­ing of reg­is­tra­tion of com­pet­ing in­ter­ests in prop­er­ty de­ter­mines which claim takes prece­dence.

A fund­ing short­fall at the Port-of-Spain City Cor­po­ra­tion (PoSCC) could trig­ger in­dus­tri­al un­rest and dis­rupt garbage col­lec­tion in the cap­i­tal with­in weeks, as of­fi­cials warn the body may be un­able to meet pay­roll be­yond the end of May.

Trinidad and To­ba­go Na­tion­al Nurs­es’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTNNA) pres­i­dent Idi Stu­art is warn­ing of fur­ther dis­rup­tion across the coun­try’s health­care sys­tem fol­low­ing last Fri­day’s large-scale protest in Port-of-Spain.