Tragedy marred the open­ing of the East­er In­ter­na­tion­al Grand Prix last night as vet­er­an rid­er Collin Wil­son died fol­low­ing a freak ac­ci­dent at Skin­ner Park, San Fer­nan­do.

A po­lice of­fi­cer is in in­ten­sive care af­ter be­ing shot while re­spond­ing to a re­port of an armed man at Turn­ing Point along La For­tune Road, La Ro­maine, on Sat­ur­day morn­ing.

Sen­a­tors have paid trib­ute to for­mer In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tor Stephen Creese, de­scrib­ing him as a man whose life em­bod­ied the very essence of pub­lic ser­vice and who left an un­de­ni­able lega­cy of na­tion­al con­tri­bu­tion.

Min­is­ter of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Sean Sobers says T&T has se­cured the sup­port of more than 100 coun­tries, in­clud­ing Cari­com states, in its bid for a non-per­ma­nent seat on the Unit­ed Na­tions Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil (UN­SC).

The Court of Ap­peal has or­dered a sec­ond re-sen­tenc­ing for a St James man con­vict­ed of rap­ing and mur­der­ing a four-year-old girl as a teenag­er, af­ter pre­vi­ous­ly es­cap­ing the manda­to­ry death penal­ty.

Of­fi­cers from the Guard and Emer­gency Branch (GEB), to­geth­er with the Port-of-Spain Di­vi­sion, con­duct­ed a joint ex­er­cise with prison staff at the Port-of-Spain Re­mand Fa­cil­i­ty on Thurs­day af­ter­noon to search for unau­tho­rised items among in­mates.

Con­sul­tant physi­cian and CNC3’s “Ask the Doc­tor” host Dr Joel Teelucks­ingh is warn­ing that the on­go­ing dis­pute be­tween nurs­es and man­age­ment at the North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA) high­lights deep­er sys­temic is­sues in Trinidad and To­ba­go’s pub­lic health­care sys­tem.

Ro­man Catholic Arch­bish­op Charles Ja­son Gor­don is call­ing on the pub­lic to recog­nise the chal­lenges faced by them­selves and oth­ers as they strive to fol­low the ex­am­ple of Je­sus Christ.

Res­i­dents of Robin­son Lane, Laven­tille, tried in vain to save 84-year-old Elise Mor­ris from a dev­as­tat­ing house fire that en­gulfed her home Thurs­day night. Mor­ris, who used a wheel­chair, was trapped on the top floor when flames erupt­ed around 8.26 pm, ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports.

Ro­man Catholic Arch­bish­op Charles Ja­son Gor­don has said that any loss of life to vi­o­lence is un­ac­cept­able, re­flect­ing on re­cent mur­ders in­clud­ing the deaths of 11-month-old Jay­den Sut­ton and his fa­ther, Joseph Sut­ton, in Dun­don­ald Hill, St James, ear­li­er this week.

Sev­en­ty-five-year-old Leela Ma­habir has wit­nessed many bless­ings in her life, which she at­trib­ut­es to the di­vine work­ings of Si­pa­ree Mai, al­so known as La Div­ina Pas­to­ra. Since child­hood, she has jour­neyed to Siparia on Good Fri­day to pay homage to the de­ity at the La Div­ina Pas­to­ra Church dur­ing the an­nu­al Si­pa­ree Mai Fes­ti­val.

“Let Je­sus be in your DNA.” That was the mes­sage de­liv­ered by Fa­ther Matthew d’Here­aux yes­ter­day fol­low­ing a Sta­tions of the Cross pro­ces­sion, which con­clud­ed at Har­ris Prom­e­nade.