A man who was found se­vere­ly beat­en in Port-of-Spain dur­ing the ear­ly hours of Thurs­day, re­mained hos­pi­talised in a crit­i­cal con­di­tion yes­ter­day.

Min­is­ter of Sport and Youth Af­fairs Phillip Watts has vowed to en­hance dif­fer­ent mech­a­nisms to call sport­ing bod­ies to ac­count, par­tic­u­lar­ly in mat­ters of fi­nan­cial ex­pen­di­ture.

A for­mer se­nior of­fi­cer in the Coast Guard is call­ing for "cool­er heads" to pre­vail amidst con­tin­ued ten­sion be­tween T&T and Venezuela.

A change in gov­ern­ment should not au­to­mat­i­cal­ly mean a change in the board­rooms of state en­ter­pris­es, ac­cord­ing to the UWI Arthur Lok Jack Glob­al School of Busi­ness, which is call­ing for a shift away from po­lit­i­cal pa­tron­age in board ap­point­ments and to­ward gov­er­nance based on mer­it, ac­count­abil­i­ty, and the le­gal frame­works that gov­ern state-owned en­ter­pris­es (SOEs).

Two Point Fortin broth­ers ap­peared be­fore a Mas­ter of the High Court, charged with the mur­der of Coast Guard Able Body Sea­man, Da­cion John, which oc­curred on May 21.

Venezuela’s gov­ern­ment has called on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to tone down the dead­ly force rhetoric she used against their coun­try and her crit­i­cism of Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro.

For­mer prime min­is­ter Stu­art Young is call­ing on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to re­con­sid­er her claim that T&T was off-lim­its to Venezuela and that she would put the Coast Guard on alert to use dead­ly force if any ves­sel from that coun­try sought to ac­cess lo­cal wa­ters il­le­gal­ly.

For­mer ed­u­ca­tion min­is­ter Dr Nyan Gads­by-Dol­ly is not im­pressed by the Gov­ern­ment’s move to ex­pel stu­dents who per­pe­trate acts of vi­o­lence in school. The for­mer min­is­ter said in­ci­dents of school vi­o­lence have al­ready been re­port­ed to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS).

For­mer min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Fi­nance, Vas­ant Bharath, has ex­pressed shock over what he calls “deep de­cep­tion” by the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) ad­min­is­tra­tion re­gard­ing the true fi­nan­cial state of Caribbean Air­lines (CAL).

The To­ba­go Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (TRHA) says it has le­gal op­tions to re­cov­er mil­lions of tax­pay­ers’ dol­lars if the am­bu­lances it bought are un­fit for use or fall short of con­tract spec­i­fi­ca­tions.

Tick­et­ing plat­form Is­land eT­ick­ets is threat­en­ing le­gal ac­tion against Ja­cho En­ter­tain­ment af­ter the col­lapse of the One Caribbean Mu­sic Fes­ti­val, de­mand­ing the re­turn of US$80,000 ad­vanced to head­line act Adid­ja “Vy­bz Kar­tel” Palmer.

A large group of Spe­cial Re­serve Po­lice of­fi­cers (SRPs) is threat­en­ing to bring con­tempt of court pro­ceed­ings against the Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP) if the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) fails to ho­n­our a court or­der.