The Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots (PDP) com­ments about Tra­cy David­son-Ce­les­tine’s role in the now-in­fa­mous zi­pline project is par for the course of elec­tion cam­paign­ing.

As swarms of lo­custs con­tin­ue to spread fur­ther in­land from the forests of Moru­ga and Ce­dros, calls are be­ing made for the gov­ern­ment to use en­vi­ron­men­tal­ly safe avi­a­tion meth­ods to con­trol the pests.

It took a vis­it by High Court judge Frank Seep­er­sad to de­ter­mine that graves at the Mon­key Town Pub­lic Ceme­tery were dug up dur­ing road works last month.

The re­cent mur­der of 23-year-old Ju­di­cia­ry clerk An­drea Bharatt unit­ed the na­tion against the scourge of gen­der-based vi­o­lence while si­mul­ta­ne­ous­ly high­light­ing glar­ing de­fi­cien­cies in the crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem. 

While much of the fo­cus on poor road qual­i­ty sur­rounds in­fra­struc­tur­al is­sues, an­oth­er cause for con­cern, ac­cord­ing to many in the in­dus­try, is the stan­dard of en­gi­neer­ing, es­pe­cial­ly in re­gion­al cor­po­ra­tions.

De­spite hor­ror sto­ries over the treat­ment met­ed out to rape vic­tims by po­lice of­fi­cers, head of the Gen­der-Based Vi­o­lence Unit (GB­VU) Supt Clair Guy-Al­leyne is en­cour­ag­ing sur­vivors to go to the po­lice.

A six-year-old boy and a 41-year-old man were shot and wound­ed while overnight­ing at a friend’s house in Mor­vant on Sun­day.

Two guns and a quan­ti­ty of am­mu­ni­tion were seized dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise con­duct­ed in the West­ern Di­vi­sion.

The 42-year-old was grant­ed $60,000 bail with a sure­ty when he ap­peared vir­tu­al­ly be­fore a Scar­bor­ough mag­is­trate on Mon­day charged with the of­fence.

Chil­dren suf­fer­ing from autism who have ex­celled de­spite chal­lenges are be­ing en­cour­aged to ap­ply for the 2021 Autism Su­per Hero Awards.

The Min­istry of Health has record­ed 4 new COVID cas­es in the last 24 hours. In there dai­ly press brief­ing, the min­istry stat­ed that of the 4 new cas­es, one is a re­cent­ly repa­tri­at­ed per­son.

The Head of the Gen­der-Based Vi­o­lence Unit (GB­VU) in the Po­lice Ser­vice has ac­knowl­edged that po­lice of­fi­cers have not al­ways treat­ed fe­male crime vic­tims with the sen­si­tiv­i­ty they de­serve, but she al­so is ad­mon­ish­ing the me­dia for its re­port­ing of sex­u­al as­sault cas­es.