House Speak­er Jagdeo Singh dis­missed con­cerns about gov­ern­ment ac­count­abil­i­ty in Par­lia­ment to­day as a “tired old sto­ry” while de­fend­ing Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der's re­fusal to an­swer ques­tions tied to the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency and al­leged threats against se­nior law en­force­ment of­fi­cers.

A 74-year-old man from Siparia, who killed his three-year-old son and dis­posed of his body al­most four decades ago, will have to serve over three more years in prison be­fore he can be re­leased.

Gov­ern­ment plans to re­cruit 800 new prison of­fi­cers with­in months, as part of a broad­er push to strength­en the coun­try’s prison sys­tem un­der the pro­posed Pa­role Bill 2026.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty has con­demned what it de­scribed as an act of crim­i­nal sab­o­tage fol­low­ing the theft of a pow­er ca­ble at the St. Joseph Boost­er Sta­tion in Ma­yaro.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice is seek­ing the pub­lic’s as­sis­tance in lo­cat­ing 19-year-old Pe­ter Isaac, who was re­port­ed miss­ing ear­li­er this week.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Roodal Mooni­lal says there is no pol­i­cy re­quir­ing the Min­istry of En­er­gy to is­sue pub­lic state­ments on small oil spills, as he de­fend­ed the Gov­ern­ment’s han­dling of an off­shore spill dis­closed on­ly af­ter Venezuela is­sued a com­mu­niqué over the week­end.

The fran­tic search for a miss­ing tod­dler in To­ba­go turned in­to frus­tra­tion and anger yes­ter­day as ten­sions flared.

Holy Name Con­vent, Port-of-Spain, is break­ing its si­lence about the al­le­ga­tions against its prin­ci­pal Sis­ter Re­nee Hall, an­nounc­ing a full, in­de­pen­dent in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

Of­fi­cers from the San Fer­nan­do Po­lice Sta­tion have launched an in­ves­ti­ga­tion af­ter a woman re­port­ed that she was im­pris­oned by a man from Feb­ru­ary 27 to May 6 and sex­u­al­ly as­sault­ed and robbed.

The Sen­ate yes­ter­day adopt­ed a spe­cial re­port rec­om­mend­ing the re­moval of Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Janelle John-Bates from the Joint Se­lect Com­mit­tee (JSC) on Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty, deep­en­ing the fall­out from the con­tro­ver­sy sur­round­ing ed­its to a par­lia­men­tary wit­ness state­ment sub­mit­ted to the Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion and Ap­pro­pri­a­tions Com­mit­tee (PAAC).

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has dou­bled down on her crit­i­cism of Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les for what she de­scribed as a fail­ure to take de­ci­sive ac­tion re­gard­ing the fu­ture of Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Janelle John-Bates, as con­tro­ver­sy con­tin­ues to swirl over the sen­a­tor’s res­ig­na­tion and her role on key par­lia­men­tary over­sight com­mit­tees.

Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Faris Al-Rawi has been tem­porar­i­ly re­moved from the Sen­ate’s Priv­i­leges Com­mit­tee pend­ing the out­come of the in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­volv­ing him­self and fel­low Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Janelle John-Bates.