Act­ing Snr Supt Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro, the Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion’s nom­i­nee for Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice, has de­clined to com­ment on his po­ten­tial ap­point­ment, say­ing he prefers to wait un­til the par­lia­men­tary process is com­plete.

An OR­ANGE Lev­el River­ine Flood Alert, as well as a YEL­LOW Lev­el Ad­verse Weath­er Alert re­main in ef­fect to­day, for Trinidad and To­ba­go, the most re­cent ad­vi­sories from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) state.

An Air In­dia pas­sen­ger plane bound for Lon­don with more than 240 peo­ple on board crashed Thurs­day in In­dia’s north­west­ern city of Ahmed­abad, the air­line said.

To­day (Thurs­day), stu­dents sit­ting CSEC and CAPE ex­ams are be­ing as­sured that every ef­fort is be­ing made to get them safe­ly to their ex­am­i­na­tion cen­tres, de­spite se­vere flood­ing across sev­er­al parts of Trinidad.

Venezue­lan Jus­tice Min­is­ter Dios­da­do Ca­bel­lo is al­leg­ing that an­oth­er batch of weapons has been seized in Venezuela com­ing from T&T.

While he re­mains large­ly un­known to the pub­lic and even with­in some T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) cir­cles, act­ing Snr Supt Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro has been put for­ward by the Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PolSC) as the top can­di­date to be this coun­try’s next po­lice com­mis­sion­er.

As ques­tions con­tin­ue to swirl re­gard­ing the se­lec­tion of Snr Supt Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro as the top-ranked can­di­date for the post of Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP), a for­mer Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PolSC) com­mis­sion­er says there were sev­er­al fac­tors to con­sid­er.

Af­ter at least five hours of tor­ren­tial rain­fall led to ex­ten­sive flash flood­ing across both Trinidad and To­ba­go yes­ter­day, cit­i­zens have to brace for more to­day.

The threat of se­vere weath­er is caus­ing anx­i­ety among res­i­dents in flood-prone com­mu­ni­ties.

The Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion’s nom­i­na­tion of act­ing Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro to be­come Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP) and As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er Wayne Mys­tar to act as Deputy Com­mis­sion­er, are list­ed on to­mor­row’s House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives agen­da but de­bate is yet to be con­firmed.

Res­i­dents of a fish­ing com­mu­ni­ty in south Trinidad have con­firmed that a man Venezue­lan au­thor­i­ties claim was part of a group al­leged­ly caught plot­ting to desta­bilise their gov­ern­ment, is in­deed Trinida­di­an. How­ev­er, they are still in dis­be­lief that he could be part of such a plot.

Ten am­bas­sadors ap­point­ed by the pre­vi­ous Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) ad­min­is­tra­tion have re­ceived let­ters from the new Gov­ern­ment re­vok­ing their ap­point­ments, with six al­ready re­turn­ing home and an­oth­er ex­pect­ed last evening.