Op­po­si­tion MP Stu­art Young has crit­i­cised the Gov­ern­ment and Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Hous­ing Phillip Alexan­der fol­low­ing the killing of three peo­ple, in­clud­ing a two-year-old child, dur­ing a shoot­ing in Bel­mont on Thurs­day.

Mo­torists are be­ing urged to ex­er­cise cau­tion while trav­el­ling along the Beetham High­way east­bound af­ter a rup­tured wa­ter line in the vicin­i­ty of the NP Gas Sta­tion is caus­ing haz­ardous dri­ving con­di­tions.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice has cor­rect­ed a pre­vi­ous state­ment say­ing that a woman and her son had been con­veyed to hos­pi­tal for med­ical treat­ment af­ter sus­tain­ing gun­shot in­juries in the fa­tal triple mur­der in Bel­mont this morn­ing. Trag­i­cal­ly, the child, Aki­ni Kafi, lat­er suc­cumbed to his in­juries while re­ceiv­ing treat­ment. His fa­ther, Ak­il Kafi, and An­tho­ny Wil­son were al­so killed. The woman re­mains un­der med­ical care.

Griev­ing fa­ther Arnold Jo­gie says he feels his fam­i­ly is be­ing de­nied jus­tice as po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue in­to the jet ski tragedy that claimed the life of his sev­en-year-old daugh­ter, An­gel­i­ca Jo­gie, at Pi­geon Point Her­itage Park, To­ba­go, near­ly a month ago.

Po­lice are seek­ing the ur­gent as­sis­tance of the pub­lic in lo­cat­ing 15-year-old Ariel Gar­cia, who has been re­port­ed miss­ing.

Min­is­ter of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Khadi­jah Ameen has con­demned the as­sault of Port of Spain City Cor­po­ra­tion Al­der­man Wayne Grif­fith fol­low­ing the cir­cu­la­tion of a vi­ral video on so­cial me­dia.

The As­so­ci­a­tion of De­nom­i­na­tion­al Boards of Ed­u­ca­tion (ADBE) is ques­tion­ing why Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath has not met with the body to dis­cuss press­ing is­sues af­fect­ing schools, in­clud­ing staff short­ages, in­dis­ci­pline and sup­port for spe­cial needs stu­dents.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) has con­firmed that emer­gency re­sponse teams were de­ployed to­day af­ter a trans­mis­sion main rup­tured near Beetham Gar­dens dur­ing a clean­ing ex­er­cise be­ing car­ried out by an­oth­er agency.

Po­lice of­fi­cers have re­ceived in­for­ma­tion that a woman and her daugh­ter were tak­en to hos­pi­tal af­ter suf­fer­ing gun­shot in­juries dur­ing the in­ci­dent in Bel­mont this morn­ing.

Op­po­si­tion Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Port of Spain North/St Ann’s West, Stu­art Young, is call­ing for the im­me­di­ate res­ig­na­tions of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der and De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge fol­low­ing a triple killing in Bel­mont this morn­ing that claimed the life of a two-year-old child.

Pro­man says its glob­al foot­print is set to grow even larg­er af­ter the com­pa­ny and its Abu Dhabi-based part­ner se­cured US$2 bil­lion in fi­nanc­ing for what will be­come the Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates’ first world-scale methanol plant.

Amid her si­lence on the fate of Sen­a­tor Janelle John-Bates, Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) po­lit­i­cal leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has ac­cused To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine of “mute lead­er­ship.”