The Trans­port Min­istry is close­ly mon­i­tor­ing the in­creas­ing use of mo­bile and wind­screen-mount­ed de­vices for video calls, record­ing and live stream­ing while dri­ving to de­ter­mine whether ad­di­tion­al reg­u­la­to­ry pro­vi­sions are need­ed, says Trans­port Min­is­ter Eli Za­k­our.

A dou­ble de­feat in the Sen­ate yes­ter­day as Sen­ate Pres­i­dent Wade Mark shut down both at­tempts by the Op­po­si­tion and In­de­pen­dent bench­es to probe ac­cu­sa­tions made by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar.

The Gov­ern­ment is as­sur­ing that Trinidad and To­ba­go has re­ceived no di­rec­tive from the Unit­ed States to halt the long-stand­ing prac­tice of send­ing na­tion­als to Cu­ba to study med­i­cine.

With three in­ves­ti­ga­tions un­der­way in­to the fa­tal po­lice shoot­ing of Josi­ah Sama­roo, rel­a­tives of three young men killed by po­lice near­ly four years ago have come for­ward to of­fer sup­port to his fam­i­ly—and to call for the res­ig­na­tion of Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro.