For the sec­ond time this month, a par­lia­men­tary com­mit­tee was abrupt­ly sus­pend­ed, with Guardian Me­dia un­der­stand­ing the is­sue was the pres­ence of em­bat­tled Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Sen­a­tor Janelle John-Bates.

Venezuela’s act­ing Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez and her gov­ern­ment has again made it clear that the will con­tin­ue to de­fend its claim to own­er­ship of the dis­put­ed Es­se­qui­bo re­gion in Guyana.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) is as­sur­ing the pub­lic that com­pre­hen­sive se­cu­ri­ty arrange­ments are in place for the Point Fortin Bor­ough Day cel­e­bra­tions this week­end.

The Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion of T&T (Ude­cott) has been blocked from mak­ing good on its threat to evict a group of ven­dors from the Break­fast Shed (Femmes du Chalet) at the end of this month.

Dis­rup­tions were re­port­ed at sev­er­al pub­lic health fa­cil­i­ties on the first day of “to­tal nurs­ing” in­dus­tri­al ac­tion, in­clud­ing at the Barataria Health Cen­tre and the tem­po­rary scal­ing down of ser­vices at the Ac­ci­dent and Emer­gency De­part­ment of the Mt Hope Women’s Hos­pi­tal.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) has moved to ad­dress on­go­ing wa­ter sup­ply dis­rup­tions in Cas­tara, To­ba­go, fol­low­ing a protest by res­i­dents yes­ter­day morn­ing over the pro­longed sit­u­a­tion.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) has be­gun a se­ries of na­tion­wide clean-up and de­silt­ing ex­er­cis­es aimed at re­duc­ing the risk of flood­ing ahead of the rainy sea­son, ac­cord­ing to Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath.

A man ac­cused of mur­der based sole­ly on an al­leged jail­house con­fes­sion has been freed af­ter spend­ing 16 years on re­mand.

A for­mer Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) re­cruit has been ac­quit­ted of rape and griev­ous sex­u­al as­sault charges.

Ef­forts to com­bat gun traf­fick­ing took cen­tre stage yes­ter­day as law en­force­ment pro­fes­sion­als from 11 coun­tries gath­ered at the Hy­att Re­gency Ho­tel for a re­gion­al work­shop aimed at strength­en­ing in­tel­li­gence-shar­ing and col­lab­o­ra­tion on il­le­gal arms smug­gling.

Res­i­dents of Ed­in­burgh 500 say they re­main on edge fol­low­ing the mur­ders of close friends Jealani Williams and Shan­ice Mor­ris, which oc­curred just over a month apart in the com­mu­ni­ty.

A woman was killed and two of her rel­a­tives in­jured in an ear­ly-morn­ing crash in Debe, just one day be­fore what would have been her 58th birth­day.