Bar­ba­dos Prime Min­is­ter Mia Mot­t­ley has an­nounced that Trinidad and To­ba­go will play a key role in ad­vanc­ing a long-await­ed in­tra-re­gion­al fer­ry ser­vice, re­veal­ing that Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has agreed to ex­plore the use of one of this coun­try’s fer­ries as a proof of con­cept while longer-term pri­vate sec­tor arrange­ments are fi­nalised.

Hunters Search and Res­cue teams are search­ing a wa­ter­course at Park Lane, Gopaul Lands, Mara­bel­la, af­ter re­ceiv­ing a re­port that the body of a ba­by was seen float­ing in the wa­ter.

As Cari­com pre­pares to seek an ad­vi­so­ry opin­ion from the Caribbean Court of Jus­tice (CCJ) on the process used to reap­point its Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al Dr Car­la Bar­nett, some stake­hold­ers say the move could pro­vide long-await­ed le­gal clar­i­ty while strength­en­ing the re­gion­al body’s gov­er­nance and de­ci­sion-mak­ing.

Min­is­ters Bar­ry Padarath (Pub­lic Util­i­ties), Roodal Mooni­lal (En­er­gy) and David Lee (Hous­ing) have praised Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar fol­low­ing Tues­day’s an­nounce­ment that Cari­com agreed to her pro­pos­al to re­fer the reap­point­ment of Cari­com’s Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al to the Caribbean Court of Jus­tice (CCJ) for ad­vi­so­ry opin­ion.

Twen­ty more men have been placed un­der pre­ven­tive de­ten­tion or­ders dur­ing the State of Emer­gency, with au­thor­i­ties al­leg­ing they are gang lead­ers, en­forcers, shoot­ers, ad­vis­ers and af­fil­i­ates in­volved in or­gan­ised crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty across Trinidad.

The T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has re­mind­ed par­ty pro­mot­ers and pa­trons that they have a re­spon­si­bil­i­ty to com­ply with the law at pub­lic events, in­clud­ing the court-ap­proved clos­ing times.

Se­nior po­lice of­fi­cers in the East­ern Di­vi­sion have so far ap­plied for 36 Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) as the State of Emer­gency (SoE) con­tin­ues.

Re­gion­al lead­ers have main­tained that any re­sponse to re­ports of Unit­ed States au­thor­i­ties us­ing lethal force against sus­pect­ed drug-traf­fick­ing ves­sels in the Caribbean must be guid­ed by the rule of law and es­tab­lished le­gal process­es.

Po­lit­i­cal Leader of the Pa­tri­ot­ic Front, Mick­ela Pan­day, has ac­cused the Gov­ern­ment of fail­ing cit­i­zens over con­cerns sur­round­ing the coun­try’s sup­ply of pass­port book­lets.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has in­sist­ed there was noth­ing un­usu­al about the search of a locked room at the Bel­mont Po­lice Sta­tion on Tues­day.

LGBTQI+ ac­tivist Ja­son Jones will have to wait longer for a fi­nal rul­ing in his more than decade-long con­sti­tu­tion­al chal­lenge to this coun­try’s bug­gery and se­ri­ous in­de­cen­cy laws.

A man has been giv­en a life­line in his bid to pur­sue a law­suit over a crash that claimed the lives of his par­ents and old­er broth­er when he and an­oth­er broth­er were chil­dren.