The First Wave Move­ment has con­demned the crim­i­nal charges laid against Ka­ia Sealy, de­scrib­ing the pros­e­cu­tion as “a trav­es­ty of jus­tice” and call­ing for the im­me­di­ate with­draw­al of the charges.

UNC Coun­cil­lor Anil Bali­ram (Freeport/Chick­land) was in crit­i­cal con­di­tion at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal yes­ter­day fol­low­ing a sus­pect­ed sui­cide at­tempt.

A 35-year-old man was shot and killed just me­tres away from Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s Philip­pine res­i­dence on Sat­ur­day night.

Su­san Lakhan-Bap­tiste, Man­ag­ing Di­rec­tor of Na­ture Seek­ers, said she has wit­nessed more than three decades of growth and trans­for­ma­tion with­in the non-gov­ern­men­tal or­gan­i­sa­tion, which she de­scribed as a mod­el of com­mu­ni­ty-dri­ven con­ser­va­tion suc­cess.

Emo­tions re­main high in Good­wood af­ter Shan­non Miller, the step­fa­ther of two-year-old An­ge­lo To­bias-Plaza, was charged with the child’s mur­der.

House Speak­er Jagdeo Singh has come un­der re­newed crit­i­cism from the Op­po­si­tion fol­low­ing a rul­ing that spared him re­fer­ral to the Priv­i­leges Com­mit­tee over al­le­ga­tions of bias in his role as Chair­man of the Pub­lic Ac­counts and Ap­pro­pri­a­tions Com­mit­tee (PAAC).

Friends of Ka­ia Sealy and her late part­ner Joshua Sama­roo staged an­oth­er protest out­side the Po­lice Ad­min­is­tra­tion Build­ing yes­ter­day, con­demn­ing the charges laid against Sealy, call­ing for a re­sponse from Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and de­mand­ing the res­ig­na­tion of Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro.

In the past few years, the Caribbean has been iden­ti­fied as the sixth re­gion of Africa with plans for greater con­nec­tiv­i­ty be­tween the re­gion and the con­ti­nent be­ing cham­pi­oned by nu­mer­ous groups on both sides of the At­lantic.

Ka­ia Sealy is break­ing her si­lence on manslaugh­ter and shoot­ing with in­tent charges to be laid against her, say­ing she is not a gang­ster, has nev­er owned a gun and re­mains in dis­be­lief over the en­tire sit­u­a­tion sur­round­ing the death of her part­ner Joshua Sama­roo and the in­juries she sus­tained.

A 24-year-old Good­wood man has been charged with the mur­der of two-year-old An­ge­lo To­bias-Plaza, near­ly two weeks af­ter the tod­dler’s dis­ap­pear­ance trig­gered an is­land-wide search op­er­a­tion in To­ba­go.

Just one day af­ter Joshua Sama­roo’s fa­ther, Christo­pher Sama­roo, told Guardian Me­dia that he was shell-shocked and in dis­be­lief that his daugh­ter-in-law, Ka­ia Sealy, had been ac­cused of killing his son, he has now made a stun­ning re­ver­sal.

In coffins which stood side by side, fa­ther and son Aqiyl and Aki­ni Kafi were laid to rest at the Crown Street, Pub­lic Ceme­tery yes­ter­day af­ter a fu­ner­al ser­vice at the Cor­pus Christi RC Church, East­ern Main Road, Laven­tille.