Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les be­lieves the ban­ning of fetes at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my was on­ly the be­gin­ning, and that oth­er prop­er­ties man­aged by the Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (Ude­cott) may soon fol­low.

While pro­mot­ers and some fete lovers are fum­ing over Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s ban on par­ties at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my (BLCA), San Fer­nan­do May­or Robert Par­ris says Skin­ner Park is open for busi­ness.

The Gov­ern­ment is as­sur­ing the na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty that Car­ni­val fes­tiv­i­ties will not be dis­rupt­ed de­spite new re­stric­tions on events at cer­tain Ude­cott-man­aged venues lo­cat­ed in res­i­den­tial ar­eas.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has cau­tioned cit­i­zens to be vig­i­lant against the spread of mis­in­for­ma­tion, fol­low­ing a pub­lic re­but­tal by US Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Ru­bio of a CNN re­port claim­ing that the Unit­ed King­dom was with­hold­ing in­tel­li­gence shar­ing over Amer­i­ca’s re­gion­al an­ti-drug op­er­a­tions.

At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie says the Unit­ed States mil­i­tary is ex­pect­ed to in­ten­si­fy ex­er­cis­es in T&T.

Eloise Gon­salves, wife of St Vin­cent and the Grenadines Prime Min­is­ter Dr Ralph Gon­salves, is con­demn­ing al­le­ga­tions sur­round­ing her fam­i­ly’s pur­chase of three Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) units in T&T, de­scrib­ing them as po­lit­i­cal­ly mo­ti­vat­ed.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) will meet to­day to dis­cuss if there is a case to re­fer Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Hous­ing, Anil Roberts, to the In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine says he is still think­ing about the elec­tion date and pray­ing on it, even though the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) was dis­solved this week and the le­gal count­down for the poll has al­ready be­gun.

The at­tor­ney rep­re­sent­ing in­car­cer­at­ed prison su­per­vi­sor Garth Gua­da is set to file a ju­di­cial re­view chal­leng­ing the re­fusal by Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der to ac­cept the de­ci­sion by the State of Emer­gency (SoE) Re­view Tri­bunal to dis­con­tin­ue his Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO).

Two men were held by po­lice of­fi­cers short­ly af­ter com­mit­ting an armed rob­bery in Tu­na­puna on Wednes­day.

An al­leged ar­gu­ment over mar­i­jua­na turned dead­ly for a Port-of-Spain man yes­ter­day morn­ing, af­ter he was stabbed mul­ti­ple times and left to die on the Bri­an Lara Prom­e­nade.

A sev­en-year-old stu­dent of the Gas­par­il­lo Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School is now in the In­ten­sive Care Unit of the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal af­ter suf­fer­ing a rup­tured spleen.