The Gov­ern­ment is re­view­ing the list of med­ica­tions of­fered un­der the Chron­ic Dis­ease As­sis­tance Pro­gramme (CDAP), with Health Min­is­ter Dr Lakram Bo­doe con­firm­ing that con­sul­ta­tions have al­ready be­gun.

Job­less af­ter last month’s mass CEPEP ter­mi­na­tion, a Princes Town woman is plead­ing for a new home as on­go­ing road works have left her house cracked, flood­ed, and on the brink of col­lapse.

Both the Par­lia­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go and Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar have is­sued state­ments mark­ing the 35th an­niver­sary of the 1990 at­tempt­ed coup.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, re­flect­ing on the 35th an­niver­sary of the Ju­ly 27, 1990 coup, says the at­tack on the Red House and TTT was not just a phys­i­cal as­sault but “a di­rect at­tack on our democ­ra­cy, our rule of law, and our val­ues as a peo­ple.”

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is call­ing for a per­ma­nent memo­r­i­al to the 1990 at­tempt­ed coup, say­ing the na­tion must pre­serve the mem­o­ry of that dark chap­ter and the lives lost.

Vet­er­an jour­nal­ist Do­minic Kaliper­sad, who was the face on air dur­ing the 1990 at­tempt­ed coup, says he is tired of retelling a sto­ry that con­tin­ues to be ig­nored by those in au­thor­i­ty.

Days af­ter a High Court judge or­dered the re­lease of at­tor­ney Shel­don Mitchell, who had been de­tained for al­leged­ly har­bour­ing the man sus­pect­ed of the bru­tal mur­der of Can­dace Hon­ore, in­ves­ti­ga­tors have charged him with per­vert­ing the course of jus­tice.

The Com­mu­ni­ty-based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme Com­pa­ny (Cepep) has threat­ened to sue its for­mer chair­man, Joel Ed­wards, over his role in fa­cil­i­tat­ing the three-year re­newals of the con­tracts of over 300 con­trac­tors, days be­fore the April 28 Gen­er­al Elec­tion. 

An Ari­ma farmer who failed to an­swer his phone on Fri­day night was yes­ter­day found dead in the back­seat of his ve­hi­cle, which had been aban­doned along Bal­isi­er Road, Aripo.

A 21-year-old woman from Matu­ra has been slapped with three charges in re­la­tion to the kid­nap­ping of Jankie Satie Karim. 

Sev­en­ty-two of the 114 em­ploy­ees at the Civil­ian Con­ser­va­tion Corps (CCC) are be­ing sent home at the end of the month, af­ter re­ceiv­ing just a one-month con­tract ex­ten­sion, sources say.

Sev­er­al il­le­gal firearms were re­cov­ered and five men ar­rest­ed dur­ing an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es across Point Fortin, Guapo, and Siparia be­tween Fri­day and Sat­ur­day.