De­spite a meet­ing set to be held to­day be­tween the Tu­na­puna/Pi­ar­co Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion (TPRC) and the Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (Ude­cott), the con­tentious po­lice post at the Ed­die Hart Grounds in Tacarigua has been in­stalled at the lo­ca­tion.

This was the ap­peal from Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) chair­man Mar­vin Gon­za­les, par­tic­u­lar­ly to PNM mem­bers, as he took is­sue with Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s re­cent re­peat­ed ac­cu­sa­tions of “PNM c****e ha­tred.”

Three men were killed in sep­a­rate shoot­ings in Bel­mont and Ari­ma be­tween Fri­day and yes­ter­day morn­ing.

Grand Chief of the First Peo­ples Sov­er­eign Na­tions Er­ic Lewis is call­ing for greater vis­i­bil­i­ty, recog­ni­tion and Gov­ern­ment sup­port for Trinidad and To­ba­go’s In­dige­nous com­mu­ni­ties.

South­ern Lawyers' As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent Saira Lakhan is urg­ing cau­tion fol­low­ing re­ports of in­ter­nal strife over the lead­er­ship at the Caribbean Court of Jus­tice (CCJ).

Unit­ed States Deputy Sec­re­tary of State Christo­pher Lan­dau ar­rived in the coun­try yes­ter­day for a two-day of­fi­cial vis­it, as the Gov­ern­ment moves to deep­en co­op­er­a­tion with Wash­ing­ton on se­cu­ri­ty and oth­er ar­eas of mu­tu­al in­ter­est.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dave Tan­coo has point­ed to huge job loss­es un­der the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) watch, re­buk­ing for­mer PNM min­is­ter in the Fi­nance Min­istry, Bri­an Man­ning, for blam­ing his (Tan­coo’s) poli­cies for caus­ing T&T’s un­em­ploy­ment cri­sis.

The State has been or­dered to pay over $500,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to a po­lice of­fi­cer, whose tran­si­tion from a mu­nic­i­pal po­lice of­fi­cer to the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) was se­vere­ly pro­longed.

The Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) is call­ing for stronger poli­cies to pro­tect the rights of In­dige­nous Peo­ples and ex­pand op­por­tu­ni­ties for their so­cial and eco­nom­ic de­vel­op­ment across the re­gion.

Is­raeli Prime Min­is­ter Ben­jamin Ne­tanyahu has re­ject­ed the deal on Gaza an­nounced by U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump last month, say­ing Is­rael’s mil­i­tary “will not car­ry out any with­draw­al un­til Hamas is gen­uine­ly dis­armed.”

U.S. Deputy Sec­re­tary of State Christo­pher Lan­dau is ex­pect­ed to meet Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar dur­ing a vis­it to Trinidad and To­ba­go from Sun­day to Tues­day, with en­er­gy, se­cu­ri­ty and eco­nom­ic co­op­er­a­tion ex­pect­ed to fea­ture promi­nent­ly on the agen­da.

Af­ter two days of con­fronta­tion over the Ed­die Hart mo­bile po­lice post, the Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (Ude­cott) has stepped in­to the dis­pute, iden­ti­fy­ing it­self as project man­ag­er and agree­ing to meet with of­fi­cials of the Tu­na­puna/Pi­ar­co Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion (TPRC) on Mon­day.