The fa­ther of Joshua Sama­roo is call­ing for the res­ig­na­tions of the Prime Min­is­ter, Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er and Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter over what he al­leged was a cov­er-up by the po­lice to pro­tect those re­spon­si­ble for his son’s death.

A fire de­stroyed a two-storey con­crete build­ing along the South­ern Main Road in St Mar­garet’s Vil­lage short­ly be­fore 4 am yes­ter­day.

Op­po­si­tion Chief Whip Mar­vin Gon­za­les has ac­cused the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) of fur­ther erod­ing pub­lic con­fi­dence in the jus­tice sys­tem amid con­tro­ver­sy sur­round­ing the Joshua Sama­roo and Ka­ia Sealy mat­ter.

The po­lice are await­ing a crit­i­cal piece of in­for­ma­tion in their probe in­to the fa­tal jet ski in­ci­dent that claimed the life of sev­en-year-old An­gel­i­ca Jo­gie.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has con­firmed that a planned protest sched­uled for to­day out­side the of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) in sup­port of Ka­ia Sealy has not been au­tho­rised.

Hous­ing Min­is­ter and Ca­roni Cen­tral Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment David Lee is urg­ing so­cial me­dia com­men­ta­tors to avoid mak­ing prej­u­di­cial re­marks when dis­cussing trag­ic in­ci­dents in­volv­ing in­di­vid­u­als.

A po­lice of­fi­cer was charged with in­de­cent as­sault af­ter al­leged­ly kiss­ing an­oth­er of­fi­cer on her lips with­out her con­sent.

Pres­i­dent of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA), Crys­tal Ashe, says while trade unions will al­ways seek the best pos­si­ble set­tle­ment for work­ers, a “rea­son­able so­lu­tion” must be reached in the on­go­ing im­passe be­tween the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) and the Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer (CPO) over out­stand­ing pub­lic sec­tor ar­rears.

A prison of­fi­cer has won a law­suit over the pro­ce­dure used by the Pub­lic Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PSC) to dis­ci­pline him for al­leged­ly sub­mit­ting a fake de­gree cer­tifi­cate when seek­ing pro­mo­tion. 

The Teach­ing Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (TSC) has lost a case over its re­fusal to dis­close an unredact­ed in­ves­tiga­tive re­port to a teacher who was dis­ci­plined based on it. 

For­mer Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Mar­vin Gon­za­les is con­demn­ing the hir­ing of “in­flu­encers” at the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA), claim­ing the em­ploy­ees were re­cruit­ed by the Gov­ern­ment with­out qual­i­fi­ca­tions or a trans­par­ent hir­ing process.

Op­po­si­tion Chief Whip Mar­vin Gon­za­les says the Op­po­si­tion is pre­pared to es­ca­late its con­cerns over the treat­ment of Op­po­si­tion Mem­bers of Par­lia­ment be­yond Par­lia­ment, tak­ing the mat­ter to re­gion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al bod­ies.