The search for a Laven­tille man who re­port­ed­ly drowned whilst bathing at Blan­chisseuse Beach with his fam­i­ly on Sun­day, con­tin­ued yes­ter­day.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has called on Op­po­si­tion MP, Dr Roodal Mooni­lal, “to ac­knowl­edge his lies and his dis­gust­ing po­lit­i­cal style” in a scathing so­cial me­dia post.

Gov­ern­ment and Op­po­si­tion MPs agree that crime is a se­ri­ous is­sue in Trinidad and To­ba­go, but they dif­fer on whether a state of emer­gency (SoE) is in­deed the so­lu­tion.

One child de­vel­op­ment psy­chol­o­gist says us­ing leg­is­la­tion to hold par­ents ac­count­able for the crim­i­nal ac­tions of their chil­dren may be viewed by some as a step in the right di­rec­tion. How­ev­er, child ado­les­cent de­vel­op­men­tal psy­chol­o­gist Camile Swapp notes that this fails to ad­dress oth­er ma­jor con­tribut­ing fac­tors to crime, such as gun ac­ces­si­bil­i­ty and fam­i­ly dy­nam­ics.

Mere weeks away from To­ba­go’s car­ni­val, some bands on the is­land are up to 50 per cent sold out.

Founder of non-gov­ern­men­tal or­gan­i­sa­tion (NGO) If There’s Not A Cause (ITNAC), Avonelle Hec­tor-Joseph, sug­gests that the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion de­vel­op a task force to re­view the ad­di­tion of new text­books or edi­tions to book lists and how reg­u­lar­ly changes are made.

Ac­cord­ing to the Min­istry of Health, the num­ber of lab­o­ra­to­ry-con­firmed deaths now stands at 16.

Thir­ty-three-year Vish­nu Badal was re­mand­ed in­to cus­tody yes­ter­day, af­ter ap­pear­ing in court charged with the mur­ders of 16-year-old Shenelle Singh and her broth­er Ke­ston.

De­spite the deaths of four divers and a mul­ti-mil­lion dol­lar Com­mis­sion of En­quiry, Oil­fields Work­ers Trade Union Pointe-a-Pierre Branch pres­i­dent, Christo­pher Jack­man, yes­ter­day claimed un­qual­i­fied work­ers still hold lead­er­ship po­si­tions at Paria Fu­el Trad­ing Com­pa­ny.

The third mur­der vic­tim in the mass shoot­ing at Ica­cos, Ce­dros, has been iden­ti­fied as fish­er­man Jabari Keny­on Abi­o­la.

Mem­bers of the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives yes­ter­day paid trib­ute to late for­mer MPs Dr Emanuel Ho­sein and Mo­hammed Han­iff.

The fol­low­ing is the bul­letin is­sued by the Met Ser­vice to 4:00 pm, to­day, cov­er­ing the pe­ri­od: tonight and to­mor­row…