For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers says the Gov­ern­ment has al­ready as­sist­ed at least three Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­als seek­ing to leave parts of the Mid­dle East af­fect­ed by the on­go­ing con­flict in­volv­ing the Unit­ed States, Is­rael and Iran.

Res­i­dents of San­gre Grande are call­ing for more con­sul­ta­tion with the gov­ern­ment on crime-fight­ing strate­gies, say­ing that a state of emer­gency (SoE) alone is not an ef­fec­tive so­lu­tion.

To­ba­go Ho­tel and Tourism As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent Regi­nald MacLean said the lat­est state of emer­gency (SoE) has come at the worst time for the is­land.

While the gov­ern­ment has de­clared an­oth­er state of emer­gency (SoE) to curb crime in parts of T&T, suc­cess in the South­ern Di­vi­sion will be mea­sured not on­ly by ar­rests and in­dict­ments but by how peace­ful the com­mu­ni­ty re­mains af­ter the pe­ri­od ends.

Af­ter sev­en weeks with­out pipe-borne wa­ter, frus­trat­ed res­i­dents of Roberts Vil­lage, Table­land, are ap­peal­ing to Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath for help.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says stricter dis­ci­pli­nary mea­sures may be nec­es­sary to ad­dress ris­ing be­hav­iour­al prob­lems in schools, fol­low­ing Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath’s re­cent dis­clo­sure of an in­crease in in-class­room in­ci­dents.

De­fence at­tor­ney Criston Williams is urg­ing the Gov­ern­ment to lay both the 2024 and 2025 re­ports of the Strate­gic Ser­vices Agency (SSA) in Par­lia­ment, ar­gu­ing that they would pro­vide vi­tal in­sight in­to gang ac­tiv­i­ties in the coun­try.

Health Min­is­ter Lack­ram Bo­doe says the gov­ern­ment has tak­en a ma­jor step to­ward mod­ernising the coun­try’s phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal reg­u­la­to­ry sys­tem with the launch of a na­tion­al drug data­base, while urg­ing phar­ma­cists to re­main vig­i­lant as chal­lenges in the sec­tor per­sist.

For­mer at­tor­ney gen­er­al Anand Ram­lo­gan, SC, and for­mer prime min­is­ter Stu­art Young are set to go head-to-head in elec­tion pe­ti­tions re­lat­ed to last year’s gen­er­al elec­tions in St Vin­cent and the Grenadines.

The Court of Ap­peal has been asked to re­view a mul­ti-mil­lion-dol­lar law­suit against a woman ac­cused of us­ing un­due in­flu­ence to gain con­trol of an el­der­ly woman’s prop­er­ty and bank ac­counts.

The moth­er of Gol­con­da res­i­dent Sta­cy Sama­roo, whose body was found float­ing in the sea in Hope, To­ba­go, on Tues­day, said her daugh­ter was un­hap­py on the is­land.

Deputy Chief Fire Of­fi­cer Ansar Ali is warn­ing mem­bers of the pub­lic to re­frain from light­ing fires to clear agri­cul­tur­al lands, af­ter an­oth­er bush fire erupt­ed along Rivulet Road in Cou­va, near the Point Lisas In­dus­tri­al Es­tate.