Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has con­firmed that ap­prox­i­mate­ly 3,000 body cam­eras have been re­quest­ed for full de­ploy­ment across law en­force­ment agen­cies. He not­ed that, as of now, 970 body cam­eras are in ac­tive use by mem­bers of the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice.

Mount­ing le­gal bills and a spike in white-col­lar crim­i­nal lit­i­ga­tion have prompt­ed the Gov­ern­ment to re­quest an ad­di­tion­al $89,492,221 for the Min­istry of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al and Le­gal Af­fairs.

Op­po­si­tion PNM MP and for­mer En­er­gy min­is­ter and prime min­is­ter, Stu­art Young, yes­ter­day called on Gov­ern­ment to clar­i­fy if the State is pay­ing for re­im­burse­ment of the Au­di­tor Gen­er­al’s fees from the Privy Coun­cil mat­ter against for­mer Fi­nance min­is­ter Colm Im­bert.

The Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) Gov­ern­ment has sup­ple­ment­ed the 2025 Bud­get of $58.9 bil­lion with a to­tal of $3.14 bil­lion more for 28 min­istries and di­vi­sions af­ter the past Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) gov­ern­ment’s “fis­cal fi­nan­cial reck­less­ness,” says Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dave Tan­coo.

In the af­ter­math of last week’s se­vere flood­ing that dev­as­tat­ed com­mu­ni­ties across sev­er­al parts of Trinidad, Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Ca­roni East, Dr Rishad Seecha­ran, says re­lief op­er­a­tions have in­ten­si­fied to sup­port the af­fect­ed res­i­dents.

Singer/song­writer Keisha Har­ris, bet­ter known by her stage name La­dy La­va, is ad­vis­ing women to be aware of the dan­gers they face and to trust their in­stincts.