A Free­dom of In­for­ma­tion re­sponse from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) seems to con­tra­dict the ex­pla­na­tions giv­en by both Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP) Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro and Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar about the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing the Com­mis­sion­er’s con­tro­ver­sial over­seas trip last month.

Rev­ellers un­able to book their tick­ets on the seabridge for the Oc­to­ber car­ni­val may get their op­por­tu­ni­ty on Mon­day, as the Port Au­thor­i­ty will an­nounce ad­di­tion­al sail­ings of the Buc­coo Reef and T&T Spir­it fast fer­ries.

The Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) is not rul­ing out protest ac­tion if nec­es­sary as it con­tin­ues to re­ject the Gov­ern­ment’s pro­pos­al for pay­ing civ­il ser­vants the back­pay re­sult­ing from their ten per cent wage in­crease.

No class­es are tak­ing place at San Juan North Sec­ondary School amid con­cerns about safe­ty and se­cu­ri­ty at the in­sti­tu­tion, fol­low­ing a rob­bery and as­sault of a staff mem­ber last Thurs­day.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Na­tion­al Nurs­es As­so­ci­a­tion (TTNNA) is urg­ing cau­tion as the North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA) launch­es its new pa­tient care shut­tle at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex (EWM­SC) in Mt Hope.

Burgess­es of the Siparia Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion are call­ing on the coun­cil to put aside their po­lit­i­cal dif­fer­ences and fo­cus on de­liv­er­ing ser­vices to res­i­dents.

Chedean Na­tion pro­duced one of the great­est come­backs in Li­ma­col WC­PL his­to­ry, pow­er­ing the Guyana Ama­zon War­riors to their maid­en ti­tle with a thrilling two-wick­et vic­to­ry over the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers at the Kens­ing­ton Oval.

Those hop­ing to par­tic­i­pate in To­ba­go Car­ni­val and wor­ried about get­ting to the sis­ter isle will soon know their fate, as the Port Au­thor­i­ty is ex­pect­ed to an­nounce ad­di­tion­al sail­ings of the Buc­coo Reef and T&T Spir­it for Oc­to­ber and No­vem­ber.

Two peo­ple were ar­rest­ed and 271 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion and two ri­fle mag­a­zines were seized dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in Cou­va on Wednes­day.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro says the Po­lice Ser­vice will use crime da­ta to de­ter­mine where to de­ploy its mi­cro units, rather than pub­li­cis­ing their lo­ca­tions in ad­vance.

Al­though Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar told Par­lia­ment that of­fi­cers op­er­at­ing in des­ig­nat­ed closed ar­eas “must use” body-worn cam­eras, the Gov­ern­ment’s new­ly in­tro­duced Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Bill does not make their use manda­to­ry in every cir­cum­stance.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says po­lice of­fi­cers con­duct­ing op­er­a­tions in des­ig­nat­ed spe­cial zones will be re­quired to wear body cam­eras un­der the Gov­ern­ment’s re­vised Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions (ZOSO) leg­is­la­tion.