At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Faris Al-Rawi is de­fend­ing the Bail (Amend­ment) (No. 2) Bill, 2019 which seeks to de­ny bail to peo­ple charged with firearms of­fences. This fol­lows a press state­ment by the Law As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (LATT) which warns that the bail re­stric­tions will tram­ple on the con­sti­tu­tion­al rights of ac­cused per­sons.

As the ac­ti­va­tion of the new deb­it cards to re­place the old "food cards" draws near­er, the Min­istry of So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices is re­mind­ing cit­i­zens of some key points with the new sys­tem.

A 25-year-old man suf­fered mul­ti­ple stab wounds when he tried to part a fight be­tween two men. Kevon Clarke, of Rio Claro, is in se­ri­ous but sta­ble con­di­tion at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal.

The cause of the deaths of sev­er­al birds at Point Sable Beach, La Brea, is still not known as the En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Agency (EMA) has no con­clu­sive re­sults from pre­vi­ous years’ in­ci­dents.