For­mer na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty min­is­ter Mar­vin Gon­za­les is call­ing on the Prime Min­is­ter to dis­miss De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge, de­scrib­ing him as a li­a­bil­i­ty due to his re­port­ed as­so­ci­a­tion with slain To­co/San­gre Grande busi­ness­man Dan­ny Guer­ra.

Days af­ter San­gre Grande busi­ness­man Dan­ny Guer­ra and his em­ploy­ee Ron­dell Adol­phus, al­so known as “Patch,” were killed in sep­a­rate in­ci­dents, TTPS pub­lic in­for­ma­tion of­fi­cer ASP Owie Rus­sell says po­lice in the East­ern Di­vi­sion have in­ten­si­fied op­er­a­tions to strength­en se­cu­ri­ty in the area.

For the first 21 days of the lat­est State of Emer­gency (SoE), TTPS pub­lic in­for­ma­tion of­fi­cer ASP Owie Rus­sell has re­port­ed a sig­nif­i­cant de­cline in al­most every cat­e­go­ry of crime com­pared to the same pe­ri­od dur­ing the pre­vi­ous SoE.

The Op­po­si­tion is con­tin­u­ing to press the gov­ern­ment over what it de­scribes as unan­swered ques­tions sur­round­ing the in­stal­la­tion and sud­den re­moval of a Unit­ed States mil­i­tary radar sys­tem re­port­ed­ly used for sur­veil­lance across Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Alyssa Phillip, one of the ac­tivists who led demon­stra­tions fol­low­ing the po­lice killing of Joshua Sama­roo and the wound­ing of his com­mon-law wife, Ka­ia Sealy, in Jan­u­ary, says she is not op­ti­mistic that any­one will be held ac­count­able if wrong­do­ing is found.

Trinidad and To­ba­go has raised con­cerns over the re-elec­tion of Cari­com Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al Dr Car­la Bar­nett, say­ing it was ex­clud­ed from the de­ci­sion-mak­ing process.

Sec­re­tary of Health, Well­ness and So­cial Pro­tec­tion Dr Faith Breb­nor re­mains in the dark about the fu­ture of Cuban medics in To­ba­go.

Po­lit­i­cal leader of the Move­ment for So­cial Jus­tice, David Ab­du­lah, has crit­i­cised the Gov­ern­ment’s re­sponse to the wors­en­ing hu­man­i­tar­i­an cri­sis in Cu­ba, warn­ing that fu­el short­ages there have cre­at­ed con­di­tions that would bring this coun­try to a stand­still with­in weeks.

Op­po­si­tion leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is press­ing the Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and For­eign Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers on whether the Gov­ern­ment is shift­ing its po­si­tion on Cu­ba.

An ac­coun­tant, who de­fraud­ed the Law As­so­ci­a­tion of al­most $400,000, has re­ceived a $50,000 fine. 

A fam­i­ly has se­cured a le­gal vic­to­ry in its bat­tle against an in­sur­ance com­pa­ny over the ear­ly ter­mi­na­tion of a lease agree­ment.

A par­lia­men­tary probe in­to al­leged cor­rup­tion in the phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal sec­tor is in­ten­si­fy­ing, with the com­mit­tee seek­ing to sum­mon for­mer Chief Med­ical Of­fi­cer (CMO) Dr Roshan Paras­ram to an­swer claims he breached the law, while al­so or­der­ing a search of Min­istry of Health servers for email ev­i­dence of pos­si­ble favouritism.