High Court judge Frank Seep­er­sad has or­dered Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice, Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro, to make it clear whether busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed and his wife, Genevieve Hadeed, are be­ing held un­der a Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO).

North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA) chair­man Dr Tim Gopeesingh says he has man­aged to dras­ti­cal­ly cut the nurs­ing over­time bill, as he ac­cused the au­thor­i­ty’s pre­vi­ous ad­min­is­tra­tion of pre­sid­ing over a decade of cor­rup­tion, nepo­tism and mis­man­age­ment.

Trinidad and To­ba­go Na­tion­al Nurs­ing As­so­ci­a­tion (TTNNA) pres­i­dent Idi Stu­art is dis­miss­ing al­le­ga­tions of fraud lev­elled at nurs­es by North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA) chair­man Dr Tim Gopeesingh.

A dis­pute has erupt­ed be­tween the Gov­ern­ment and the Port-of-Spain City Cor­po­ra­tion over whether the cap­i­tal city has suf­fi­cient fund­ing to pay hun­dreds of mu­nic­i­pal work­ers.

Eleven-year-old Aaron Ed­wards longs for a chance at life. He’s not been in school for two years, as a rare liv­er dis­or­der has left him too weak to live a nor­mal child­hood.

Christo­pher Sama­roo had to be tak­en for med­ical treat­ment yes­ter­day, af­ter he com­plained of feel­ing un­well whilst in po­lice cus­tody.

Si­lence con­tin­ues to sur­round the ar­rest of Do­minic Hadeed, his wife Genevieve and a 69-year-old rel­a­tive by law en­force­ment au­thor­i­ties, who are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the cou­ple for rea­sons they have not made pub­lic.

A preg­nant woman was stabbed by her male com­pan­ion dur­ing an ar­gu­ment at their apart­ment in Mt Lam­bert yes­ter­day.

The Gov­ern­ment has firm­ly re­ject­ed sug­ges­tions that it is in­struct­ing the po­lice to go af­ter crit­ics, in­sist­ing the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) must be al­lowed to con­duct its work in­de­pen­dent­ly, as busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed and his wife Genevieve re­main un­der in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

BAS­SETERRE, St Kitts—Hours be­fore the first act took the stage at the 28th edi­tion of the St Kitts Mu­sic Fes­ti­val, Ba­jan so­ca artiste Ed­win Year­wood urged Caribbean peo­ple to sup­port Caribbean artistes, say­ing greater pub­lic back­ing is crit­i­cal to the genre’s growth.

As Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les be­gins whip­ping the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) in­to shape ahead of the next Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Elec­tions, the par­ty’s chair­man, Mar­vin Gon­za­les, is urg­ing mem­bers to put aside in­ter­nal di­vi­sions and unite be­hind a com­mon goal.

Po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst Shane Mo­hammed is warn­ing Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine of a po­lit­i­cal back­lash if he is not trans­par­ent with the pub­lic about a fu­ture hir­ing freeze in the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA).