The Move­ment for So­cial Jus­tice (MSJ) says it will con­test all 114 elec­toral dis­tricts in the up­com­ing Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Elec­tions and 41 con­stituen­cies in next year’s Gen­er­al Elec­tion as it seeks to over­throw the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM).

About 20 life­guards from Mara­cas Bay and Las Cuevas gath­ered out­side the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty head­quar­ters on Aber­crom­by Street in Port-of-Spain seek­ing an ur­gent meet­ing with the Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Stu­art Young over grave se­cu­ri­ty con­cerns fol­low­ing an as­sault of two life­guards on Sun­day.

The Caribbean Court of Jus­tice (CCJ) has up­held the pas­sage of a no-con­fi­dence mo­tion in Guyana's Na­tion­al As­sem­bly in De­cem­ber, last year.

“Who kill my chil­dren?” wailed Gee­ta See­bran, 64, out­side the San Fer­nan­do High Court on Mon­day short­ly af­ter a Point Fortin man was found not guilty of the 2005 mur­ders of her two sons, Neil and Nigel See­bran.

Gov­ern­ment is “try­ing to en­sure” it has suf­fi­cient re­sources at its Cara­cas em­bassy to process visa ap­pli­ca­tions for Venezue­lans. But some Venezue­lans have ap­pealed for a brief waiv­er for those trav­el­ling this week since visa in­for­ma­tion is not forth­com­ing from the em­bassy.

T&T Pres­i­dent Paula-Mae Weekes will stand to col­lect a pen­sion of $1.4m an­nu­al­ly un­der Gov­ern­ment’s pro­posed pen­sion amend­ments, UNC Sen­a­tor Wade Mark said yes­ter­day.

A lo­cal ac­tor has ap­peared in court over an ac­ci­dent which claimed the lives of chef Joe Brown and fel­low British ex­pat Joan­na Banks, last year.

The Caribbean Court of Jus­tice (CCJ) will on Tues­day bring fi­nal res­o­lu­tion to a con­sti­tu­tion­al cri­sis caused by the pas­sage of a no-con­fi­dence mo­tion in Guyana's Na­tion­al As­sem­bly in De­cem­ber, last year.

Lawyers rep­re­sent­ing Sanatan Dhar­ma Ma­ha Sab­ha (SDMS) sec­re­tary gen­er­al Sat­narayan Ma­haraj have filed for an in­junc­tion seek­ing to block the Of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) from in­sti­tut­ing sedi­tion charges against him pend­ing the de­ter­mi­na­tion of his nov­el con­sti­tu­tion­al chal­lenge against this coun­try’s colo­nial-age sedi­tion leg­is­la­tion.

A case of mis­tak­en iden­ti­ty, which led to a 57-year-old man from Guyana be­ing wrong­ful­ly de­tained for four months for al­leged­ly ab­scond­ing from an over 30-year-old rob­bery case, is now set to cost tax­pay­ers thou­sands of dol­lars in com­pen­sa­tion.

A 27-year-old man of Mt Hope is ex­pect­ed to be charged af­ter po­lice found four ex­plo­sive de­vices at his home dur­ing an in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tion on Fri­day.

The T&T Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Of­fice has ex­tend­ed its ad­verse weath­er warn­ing un­til 4 pm on Tues­day and warned that pe­ri­ods of rain and iso­lat­ed thun­der­storms are like­ly to con­tin­ue to af­fect the coun­try.