The gy­ro ven­dor who died from gun­shot wounds to his head last Sat­ur­day, was laid to rest this morn­ing fol­low­ing a fu­ner­al ser­vice at the Scar­bor­ough RC Church.

The 50-year-old man was asleep at his Allen Trace, Kel­ly Vil­lage, home when at about 12.30 am on Tues­day he was awak­ened by the sound of gun­shots.

A 36-year-old woman was robbed at gun­point of the ve­hi­cle she was dri­ving along with her hand­bag which con­tained over $1,000 in cash and oth­er valu­ables in El So­cor­ro on Tues­day.

A 23-year-old man was chopped and wound­ed while at­tempt­ing to col­lect his son from the child's moth­er in Ari­ma.

A teacher who is al­leged to have used abu­sive lan­guage to­wards pupils of the Tran­quil­li­ty Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School has been told to stay away from the class­rooms for the rest of the week and will be served with sus­pen­sion pa­pers by the end of the week.

The fam­i­ly of a 17-year-old boy, who was ac­ci­den­tal­ly shot and killed by a po­lice of­fi­cer dur­ing a par­ty in 2014, is set to re­ceive over $1 mil­lion in com­pen­sa­tion. 

Af­ter weeks of pub­lic de­bate, con­cerns be­ing ex­pressed and even promis­es from the op­po­si­tion Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress to bring a re­peal law to Par­lia­ment, the gov­ern­ment is now in the process of re­view­ing the Sedi­tion Act with an aim to make changes.

A so­cial me­dia stand­off has emerged be­tween Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley and British High Com­mis­sion­er Tim Stew over the Prime Min­is­ter’s de­ci­sion to write the British gov­ern­ment on the con­tents of a doc­u­men­tary, which Dr Row­ley con­tends has mis­rep­re­sent­ed Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Cou­va North MP Ra­mona Ram­di­al is call­ing on Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley to apol­o­gise to women for his con­stant women-sham­ing com­ments.

For­mer Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Sub­has Pan­day is ques­tion­ing why Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley did not re­port to po­lice, Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar's al­leged tip-off of the im­pend­ing ar­rest of Port-of-Spain South MP Mar­lene Mc­Don­ald.
Speak­ing at his San Fer­nan­do law cham­bers to­day, Pan­day said that un­der Sec­tion 51 of the Pro­ceeds of Crime Act (POCA), Per­sad-Bisses­sar's ac­tion would have con­sti­tut­ed a crime.
Sec­tion 51 (1) states that a per­son com­mits an of­fence if he knows or sus­pects that a po­lice of­fi­cer is act­ing or is propos­ing to act in con­nec­tion with an in­ves­ti­ga­tion, which is be­ing or is about to be con­duct­ed in­to mon­ey laun­der­ing and he dis­clos­es to any oth­er per­son, in­for­ma­tion or any oth­er mat­ter which is like­ly to prej­u­dice that in­ves­ti­ga­tion or pro­posed in­ves­ti­ga­tion.
Mc­Don­ald, the for­mer Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion Min­is­ter, was charged last Au­gust with de­fraud­ing the State and mis­be­hav­iour in pub­lic of­fice. In the Par­lia­ment last week, Row­ley re­vealed that Per­sad-Bisses­sar told Mc­Don­ald of her ar­rest, a month be­fore it hap­pened. His rev­e­la­tion was sup­port­ed by At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Faris Al-Rawi.  A day lat­er, Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Gary Grif­fith dis­put­ed a leak with­in the Po­lice Se­vice, say­ing that sev­er­al weeks be­fore the ar­rest, there was no new ev­i­dence that war­rant­ed Mc­Don­ald's ar­rest. The UNC has ac­cused the Gov­ern­ment of ly­ing, ques­tion­ing whether the state­ment was a ploy to help Mc­Don­ald es­cape pros­e­cu­tion.
For Pan­day, these al­le­ga­tions should be in­ves­ti­gat­ed.
"Hav­ing ob­tained knowl­edge of an al­leged crim­i­nal of­fence be­ing com­mit­ted, why did you not up­hold the law and cause an in­quiry in an at­tempt to bring the al­leged per­pe­tra­tor to jus­tice? Did your ac­tions or lack there­of amount to the of­fence of mis­be­hav­iour in pub­lic of­fice and the po­lice should in­ves­ti­gate? Why did you not wait for a month? The be­hav­iour of the gov­ern­ment would be tan­ta­mount to mis­be­hav­iour in pub­lic of­fice.
"The Prime Min­is­ter must tell the na­tion when did he be­come aware of this in­for­ma­tion of the al­leged call of the Leader of the Op­po­si­tion to Min­is­ter Mar­lene Mc­Don­ald," Pan­day said.
He al­so ques­tioned why Row­ley used par­lia­men­tary priv­i­lege to make such a se­ri­ous state­ment. He said what the Gov­ern­ment did was an at­tempt to un­der­mine the in­tegri­ty of the Po­lice Ser­vice as it in­sin­u­at­ed there was a leak. He said the Po­lice Ser­vice is an in­de­pen­dent or­gan­i­sa­tion and must not al­low it­self to be bul­lied by any­one.

Op­po­si­tion MP Rod­ney Charles has called on the Prime Min­is­ter not to em­bar­rass the coun­try with his stance with re­gard to the BBC doc­u­men­tary "The Dis­placed"

High Court Judge Frank Seep­er­sad has moved to re­solve a le­gal dis­pute with­in the Nurs­ing Coun­cil, which had the po­ten­tial to put the reg­is­tra­tion of new nurs­es in jeop­ardy.