Every heavy rain show­er brings fresh con­cern for some fam­i­lies in Ridge­wood Gar­dens, Gol­con­da, as rain­wa­ter rush­es through a col­lapsed drain be­hind their homes, widen­ing cracks and wash­ing away soil.

Scouts from eight groups across the South Cen­tral Scout Dis­trict marched through San Fer­nan­do re­cent­ly, car­ry­ing a mes­sage of en­vi­ron­men­tal stew­ard­ship, urg­ing cit­i­zens to help safe­guard the plan­et for fu­ture gen­er­a­tions.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice, Aman Bains, 27, of Sur­rey, re­port­ed that at around 10.30 pm on Thurs­day, he was walk­ing along Ari­api­ta Av­enue near Hamil­ton Hold­er Street, Port of Spain, when he was ap­proached by four masked men and one un­masked woman.

Po­lice are seek­ing the pub­lic’s as­sis­tance in lo­cat­ing 63-year-old An­dre Moses, who has been re­port­ed miss­ing.

An air­craft which left St Vin­cent and the Grenadines en route to To­ba­go on Fri­day has gone miss­ing.

A US $10,000 ran­som has been de­mand­ed for a Ch­agua­nas man who was snatched on Sat­ur­day night.

A 19-year-old Laven­tille man is be­ing treat­ed for in­juries af­ter a rideshare dri­ver al­leged­ly knocked him down while es­cap­ing an at­tempt­ed rob­bery on Sat­ur­day night.

Four peo­ple were ar­rest­ed and am­mu­ni­tion, a pis­tol mag­a­zine and quan­ti­ties of cannabis seized dur­ing an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es con­duct­ed in Cen­tral and South­ern Di­vi­sion dis­tricts over the week­end.

Cou­va South MP Bar­ry Padarath is stand­ing by his com­ments re­gard­ing the con­duct of par­lia­men­tary staff and has dis­missed calls by the Op­po­si­tion for him to be in­ves­ti­gat­ed for the al­leged in­tim­i­da­tion of staff as a de­flec­tion at­tempt by the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has backed Leader of Gov­ern­ment Busi­ness Bar­ry Padarath’s al­le­ga­tions that par­lia­men­tary broad­cast­ing staff have been un­fair­ly mut­ing the mi­cro­phones of Gov­ern­ment mem­bers, say­ing the is­sue has per­sist­ed for years and should be for­mal­ly raised be­fore the Par­lia­men­tary Broad­cast­ing Com­mit­tee.

Ex­press­ing shock at what un­fold­ed dur­ing Fri­day evening’s Stand­ing Fi­nance Com­mit­tee, a par­lia­men­tary ex­pert with vast ex­pe­ri­ence in par­lia­men­tary ad­min­is­tra­tion de­scribed the in­ci­dent as un­prece­dent­ed and mount­ed a vig­or­ous de­fence of par­lia­men­tary staff, ar­gu­ing that the con­tro­ver­sy ap­peared to stem from a mis­un­der­stand­ing of how the cham­ber’s au­dio sys­tem func­tions.

The be­hav­iour wit­nessed in the Par­lia­ment on Fri­day night is be­ing sharply crit­i­cised by the for­mer speak­er of the House, Nizam Mo­hammed.