As the Gov­ern­ment is propos­ing sweep­ing changes to the laws gov­ern­ing the Chil­dren’s Life Fund, the Op­po­si­tion is rais­ing alarm over how much pow­er it puts in the hands of the Min­is­ter of Health.

A 75-year-old pen­sion­er was found dead in his kitchen on Thurs­day night, and po­lice have since ar­rest­ed his men­tal­ly ill son in con­nec­tion with the in­ci­dent.

Al­most two years af­ter he stabbed his friend to death in Princes Town, a 34-year-old man has been sen­tenced to 11 years in jail.

An em­ploy­ee of the Of­fice of the Com­mis­sion­er of State Lands, Land Man­age­ment Di­vi­sion of the Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture, has been ac­quit­ted of a forgery charge.

A Laven­tille man, who was stabbed sev­er­al times dur­ing an ar­gu­ment with a neigh­bour on Thurs­day night out­side his home, has died.

A Laven­tille man had to be treat­ed at hos­pi­tal on Thurs­day, af­ter he was shot in the arm whilst dri­ving through East­ern Quar­ry, Laven­tille.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Elec­tions Su­per­vi­so­ry Com­mit­tee (ESC) chair­man Richard Wal­cott, says the dead­line for queries about the par­ty’s mem­ber­ship list for its up­com­ing in­ter­nal elec­tion has been ex­tend­ed to this af­ter­noon.

The man seen strand­ed on the bon­net of his par­tial­ly sub­merged ve­hi­cle dur­ing Thurs­day’s se­vere flood­ing on Trantrill Road, St Au­gus­tine, has been found safe. Af­ter hours of search­ing, emer­gency of­fi­cials con­firmed the dri­ver, of Asian de­scent, had re­turned home and was lat­er lo­cat­ed at a rac­ing pool in Tu­na­puna.

Brazil­ian Pres­i­dent Luiz In­á­cio Lu­la da Sil­va crit­i­cised the "aban­don­ment and in­dif­fer­ence" of most of the com­mu­ni­ty in the face of the Hait­ian cri­sis, dur­ing a meet­ing on Fri­day with del­e­ga­tions from 16 Caribbean coun­tries.

The Min­istry of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs has ex­pressed con­do­lences on be­half of the Gov­ern­ment and peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go to In­dia, fol­low­ing the dead­ly crash of Air In­dia Flight 171 in Ahmed­abad, Gu­jarat, on Thurs­day.

The Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty Cli­mate Change Cen­tre (CC­C­CC) will com­mem­o­rate its 20th an­niver­sary with a ban­quet and awards cer­e­mo­ny on Wednes­day at the Best West­ern Plus Be­lize Bilt­more Plaza in Be­lize City.

Act­ing Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro says he is hum­bled by his ap­point­ment as Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice and has pledged to work with all stake­hold­ers to make Trinidad and To­ba­go safer.