At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie is an­tic­i­pat­ing that stand-your-ground leg­is­la­tion will be laid in Par­lia­ment af­ter the up­com­ing mid-year bud­get re­view.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dave Tan­coo has con­firmed that he has im­ple­ment­ed ex­tra se­cu­ri­ty mea­sures at his fam­i­ly home in Fyz­abad, af­ter an in­ci­dent on the week­end in which a man re­layed a mes­sage that many peo­ple per­ceived to be a threat.

Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Hous­ing, Phillip Ed­ward Alexan­der, is deny­ing any wrong­do­ing af­ter re­ceiv­ing some crit­i­cism for us­ing his per­son­al Face­book page to ad­ver­tise jobs in the con­struc­tion sec­tor in the cap­i­tal.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has con­firmed that the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) has no deed or lease for the lands on which the UWI Debe cam­pus was built.

New­ly-ap­point­ed Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Sen­a­tor Melanie Roberts-Radg­man is ask­ing To­ba­go par­ty mem­bers to judge her by her ser­vice, not her past.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der is promis­ing that the Princes Town re­gion will re­ceive a work­ing fire sta­tion “in the short­est pos­si­ble time.”

Min­is­ter of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Khadi­jah Ameen has as­sured that mu­nic­i­pal cor­po­ra­tions will re­ceive ad­e­quate fund­ing, even as the Gov­ern­ment moves ahead with plans to re­peal the Prop­er­ty Tax.

Three days af­ter they ar­rived in T&T, the po­lice ser­vice has vowed to as­sist in the re­set­tle­ment of de­por­tees.

Bish­op of the An­gli­can Church in T&T, Claude Berkley, hopes the Gov­ern­ment will keep the com­mit­ment made by the pre­vi­ous ad­min­is­tra­tion to help re­store the Holy Trin­i­ty Cathe­dral on Aber­crom­by Street, Port-of-Spain.

The coun­try’s mur­der count has in­creased fol­low­ing two sep­a­rate killings in Cunu­pia and Barataria yes­ter­day.

A Pe­tit Val­ley man was robbed by armed men in Mar­aval on Sun­day night, af­ter the man went to meet a man he met on so­cial me­dia.

A 36-year-old met­al fab­ri­ca­tor from Ch­agua­nas, who ad­mit­ted to killing a prison of­fi­cer dur­ing a dis­pute in 2016, is ex­pect­ed to be re­leased from prison in less than a year.