Op­po­si­tion Chief Whip Mar­vin Gon­za­les is ques­tion­ing why Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has been put in charge of mat­ters in the Pris­ons Ser­vice, when Alexan­der has not ad­dressed al­le­ga­tions in the pub­lic do­main about vis­its to the pris­ons to meet cer­tain in­mates. He is al­so ques­tion­ing if there are prob­lems with­in Gov­ern­ment which prompt­ed the changes.

Po­lit­i­cal an­a­lysts are de­scrib­ing the Prime Min­is­ter’s de­ci­sion to re­as­sign the re­spon­si­bil­i­ties of more than 10 Gov­ern­ment min­istries as a sign of dis­sat­is­fac­tion with some of her min­is­ters’ per­for­mance.

An eight-year-old girl who was re­port­ed­ly pushed in­to a riv­er in Gon­za­les by an­oth­er child and washed in­to an un­der­ground drain dur­ing in­tense rain­fall yes­ter­day was lat­er res­cued from the East Dry Riv­er (EDR) in Port-of-Spain by po­lice of­fi­cers who risked their own lives to save her.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue in­to a fa­tal hit-and-run ac­ci­dent yes­ter­day morn­ing in Ari­ma.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said around 10 am, Fran­cis and a close fe­male rel­a­tive were in­volved in an ar­gu­ment at their George Street apart­ment, and as ten­sions es­ca­lat­ed, the woman re­port­ed­ly grabbed a knife and be­gan stab­bing Fran­cis about the body.

Clin­i­cal psy­chol­o­gist, Van­dana Siew Sankar-Ali, has warned that try­ing chil­dren as adults in a court of law can back­fire on the coun­try.

A col­li­sion be­tween a ten-wheel­er truck and an H-100 pick­up in San­gre Grande has left one per­son se­ri­ous­ly in­jured.

Two men am­bushed a 47-year-old man be­fore beat­ing and stab­bing him dur­ing an at­tack at Bor­de Narve Vil­lage, San Fer­nan­do, on Sat­ur­day night.

T&T’s ef­forts to re­vive the long-stalled Drag­on gas deal have reached a de­ci­sive turn­ing point, with Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar ex­press­ing her will­ing­ness to per­son­al­ly trav­el to Venezuela to ini­ti­ate ne­go­ti­a­tions.

San Fer­nan­do ca­lyp­so­ni­ans are re­new­ing their call for the cre­ation of a per­ma­nent Ca­lyp­so Mu­se­um to cel­e­brate and pre­serve Trinidad and To­ba­go’s mu­si­cal and cul­tur­al her­itage.

Five new med­ica­tions have been added to the re­vised Chron­ic Dis­ease As­sis­tance Pro­gramme (CDAP) which will pro­vide up­dat­ed treat­ment for more than 300,000 cit­i­zens.

Cuban Am­bas­sador to Trinidad and To­ba­go, Gus­ta­vo D Veliz Oli­vares, has re­it­er­at­ed his coun­try’s con­dem­na­tion of ter­ror­ism and called for Cu­ba’s re­moval from the Unit­ed States’ list of state spon­sors of ter­ror­ism.