Crim­i­nal Bar As­so­ci­a­tion (CBA) pres­i­dent Is­rael Khan, SC, yes­ter­day en­dorsed Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions Roger Gas­pard’s de­ci­sion in the Joshua Sama­roo shoot­ing probe, say­ing he (Gas­pard) was not some­one giv­en to im­pulse.

The star­tling twist to the Joshua Sama­roo probe, which re­sult­ed in his girl­friend Ka­ia Sealy fac­ing charges of manslaugh­ter and shoot­ing with in­tent, has sent shock­waves among Op­po­si­tion par­lia­men­tar­i­ans.

Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Faris Al-Rawi and Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment deputy leader San­jiv Bood­hu are call­ing on Land and Le­gal Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sad­dam Ho­sein to di­rect­ly ad­dress mount­ing con­cerns linked to Land­mark­TT and al­le­ga­tions of nepo­tism and crony­ism.

The last sit­ting of the first ses­sion of Par­lia­ment was not with­out con­tro­ver­sy, as the Op­po­si­tion staged a walk­out from the Low­er House, ac­cus­ing the Gov­ern­ment of abus­ing its par­lia­men­tary ma­jor­i­ty to si­lence Op­po­si­tion voic­es dur­ing de­bate on the Vic­tims’ Rights Bill.

The fa­ther of mur­dered two-year-old An­ge­lo To­bias-Plaza is leav­ing jus­tice in the hands of God, even as he strug­gles to cope with the loss of his son.

Rel­a­tives of 23-year-old Ja­mal Rogers in­sist he was in­no­cent and are plead­ing with po­lice to find those re­spon­si­ble for gun­ning him down at his Princes Town home.

An­oth­er prison of­fi­cer has been de­tained un­der a Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO) in the lat­est batch is­sued by Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der.

There will be no dis­ci­pli­nary ac­tion by the Sen­ate’s Com­mit­tee of Priv­i­leges against Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tors Janelle John-Bates and Faris Al-Rawi.

Deputy House Speak­er Dr Aiy­na Ali has re­ject­ed a mo­tion seek­ing leave to re­fer House Speak­er Jagdeo Singh to Par­lia­ment’s Priv­i­leges Com­mit­tee, over al­le­ga­tions of bias and con­flict of in­ter­est linked to a par­lia­men­tary in­quiry in­to phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals.

Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Health Dr Rishad Seecha­ran said ris­ing al­co­hol con­sump­tion in Trinidad and To­ba­go is con­tribut­ing to road traf­fic in­ci­dents, as he con­tributed to a pri­vate mo­tion on the es­tab­lish­ment of an ad­e­quate na­tion­al road safe­ty sys­tem in the Low­er House yes­ter­day.

Two mo­tor­cy­clists died in sep­a­rate road traf­fic ac­ci­dents just hours apart yes­ter­day morn­ing.

The Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer has giv­en the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion four weeks to re­spond to the Gov­ern­ment’s fi­nal set­tle­ment of­fer, which com­pris­es 40 per cent cash and 60 per cent non-cash ben­e­fits.