As the chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer (CEO) and line min­is­ter for Land­mark­TT Prop­er­ties Ltd con­tin­ue to re­main silent on al­le­ga­tions of breach­ing pro­cure­ment law, al­le­ga­tions re­main that the new­ly formed state en­ter­prise in­ten­tion­al­ly tried to re­strict com­pe­ti­tion and ex­clude qual­i­fied con­trac­tors.

Leader of Gov­ern­ment Busi­ness Bar­ry Padarath has fired back at Op­po­si­tion Chief Whip Mar­vin Gon­za­les, dis­miss­ing al­le­ga­tions that the Gov­ern­ment is fail­ing to ac­count to the pop­u­la­tion as “noth­ing short of a de­flec­tion.”

As 20 new radar speed guns have been added to the TTPS law en­force­ment ar­se­nal, Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro says he is op­ti­mistic the de­vices will sig­nif­i­cant­ly as­sist po­lice in tack­ling reck­less dri­vers.

Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe says while nurs­es’ ac­tions has not im­pact­ed health­care, Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ties (RHAs) have ini­ti­at­ed their con­tin­gency plans to ad­dress any pos­si­ble fall­out.

Amid re­peat­ed calls for the pub­lic to avoid meet­ing strangers in un­fa­mil­iar neigh­bour­hoods for fi­nan­cial trans­ac­tions, Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro is again urg­ing ven­dors and po­ten­tial cus­tomers to be mind­ful of the tricks crim­i­nals use to iden­ti­fy and tar­get vic­tims.

The mur­der count in­creased yes­ter­day fol­low­ing the killing of a San Juan man just af­ter lunch.

Siparia May­or Dood­nath Mayrhoo says he in­tends to press ahead with plans to host a J’Ou­vert cel­e­bra­tion and cul­tur­al ex­trav­a­gan­za for the bor­ough’s an­niver­sary cel­e­bra­tions in June, de­spite op­po­si­tion from Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) coun­cil­lors and a Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) al­der­man who vot­ed against fund­ing mu­sic trucks and a band for the events.

Pres­sure is mount­ing over the fu­ture of the Hilton Trinidad and Con­fer­ence Cen­tre, with the Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Work­ers Union (CWU) warn­ing that hun­dreds of work­ers face grow­ing un­cer­tain­ty ahead of a Ju­ly 16 dead­line tied to the ho­tel’s op­er­a­tional sta­tus.

The re­quest by for­mer Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Stu­art Young for De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge to be in­ter­viewed fol­low­ing his bomb­shell claim that two dead­ly shoot­ings in Mor­vant and Bel­mont were linked has been wel­comed by se­nior po­lice of­fi­cers.

There is ex­pect­ed to be fur­ther heat in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives to­day over the ef­fec­tive­ness of the State of Emer­gency (SoE) and the ris­ing num­ber of mur­ders in Trinidad and To­ba­go, as well as de­bate on a re­port con­cern­ing a PNM sen­a­tor’s con­tin­ued mem­ber­ship on a Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Par­lia­men­tary Com­mit­tee.

An in­junc­tion pre­vent­ing the Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (Ude­cott) from pro­ceed­ing with the evic­tion of ven­dors op­er­at­ing at the Break­fast Shed (Femmes du Chalet) will re­main in ef­fect at least un­til the end of this month.

A 33-year-old man from Bar­rack­pore, who was sen­tenced to hang for the bru­tal mur­ders of his es­tranged com­mon-law wife and their 14-month-old daugh­ter, has ap­pealed.