The Min­istry of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty has di­rect­ed Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher to pro­ceed on six­ty-six (66) days’ va­ca­tion leave with im­me­di­ate ef­fect.

An uniden­ti­fied man was shot and killed by a se­cu­ri­ty guard sec­onds af­ter rob­bing a woman of her car at Long Cir­cu­lar Mall just af­ter mid­day.

For­mer deputy chair­man of the Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PSC), Mar­tin George has de­scribed the de­lay in con­firm­ing the lift­ing of Com­mis­sion­er Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher's sus­pen­sion as a “scan­dalous out­rage,” urg­ing im­me­di­ate ac­tion to re­store pub­lic con­fi­dence in the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS).

The Mi­nor­i­ty Leader in the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) says all eyes are on the To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP) as they now must de­liv­er on their cam­paign promis­es, in­clud­ing To­ba­go’s au­ton­o­my.

A To­ba­go pen­sion­er was ar­rest­ed af­ter beg­ging of­fi­cers for a “bligh” when they found him with co­caine dur­ing a po­lice pa­trol.

Pres­i­dent of the All To­ba­go Fish­er­folk As­so­ci­a­tion, Cur­tis Dou­glas, is call­ing for an ur­gent meet­ing with Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, hop­ing the new ad­min­is­tra­tion will fi­nal­ly bring an end to decades of il­le­gal fish­ing in To­ba­go’s wa­ters.

The Prime Min­is­ter has con­firmed that the Min­istry of Jus­tice will over­see the Prison Ser­vice.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has con­firmed May 23 as the of­fi­cial date for open­ing the up­com­ing par­lia­men­tary term.

To­day is of­fi­cial­ly the last day in of­fice for Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher as her con­tract comes to an end. But she has not yet re­ceived her Let­ter of Reap­point­ment fol­low­ing the lift­ing of her sus­pen­sion.

Do­mini­can at­tor­ney, Clement Joseph, has been ap­point­ed the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tion (DPP) fol­low­ing the re­tire­ment of Ja­maican, An­tho­ny Arm­strong a few years ago, amid crim­i­nal charges for pro­fes­sion­al mis­con­duct brought by the Gen­er­al Le­gal Coun­cil in Ja­maica.

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump told Gulf lead­ers on Wednes­day he ur­gent­ly wants “to make a deal” with Iran to wind down its nu­clear pro­gram but Tehran must end its sup­port of proxy groups through­out the re­gion as part of any po­ten­tial agree­ment.

Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Util­i­ties Bar­ry Padarath has man­dat­ed the ma­jor­i­ty state-owned Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of T&T (TSTT) and its whol­ly owned sub­sidiary, Am­plia, to put a hold on all hu­man re­source ac­tions un­til fur­ther no­tice with im­me­di­ate ef­fect.