Staff at the Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TSTT) were re­port­ed­ly brought to tears by the news yes­ter­day that Kent West­ern had re­signed as CEO of the com­pa­ny.

For­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley says cit­i­zens should be able to judge for them­selves the ef­fec­tive­ness of this cur­rent State of Emer­gency in com­par­i­son to the one called dur­ing his ad­min­is­tra­tion.

For­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley says PNM Chair­man Mar­vin Gon­za­les spoke “in­el­e­gant­ly” and may have mis­rep­re­sent­ed the dis­cus­sions that took place in Cab­i­net re­gard­ing the com­po­si­tion of state boards.

One Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter is deny­ing that nepo­tism is at play when it comes to State board ap­point­ments.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath is rub­bish­ing so­cial me­dia claims that he held a birth­day bash in To­ba­go, which led to Caribbean Air­lines be­ing forced to re­move con­firmed trav­ellers off flights to ac­com­mo­date his guests.

At­tor­neys rep­re­sent­ing mur­der ac­cused Ra­jaee Ali have been grant­ed ac­cess to see him af­ter he was re­moved from the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison, Arou­ca and placed in the mil­i­tary’s cus­tody at Teteron Bar­racks, Ch­aguara­mas.

Se­nior Coun­sel Mar­tin Daly says the Gov­ern­ment must pro­vide clear and co­her­ent in­for­ma­tion to the pub­lic about the ba­sis of the cur­rent State of Emer­gency (SoE), warn­ing that trust in pub­lic of­fi­cials could be im­pact­ed.

Chief Jus­tice Ivor Archie has ap­point­ed a new three-mem­ber Re­view Tri­bunal to as­sess de­ten­tion or­ders is­sued un­der the cur­rent State of Emer­gency.

The po­lice ser­vice con­duct­ed 84 an­ti-crime op­er­a­tions be­tween Sun­day and yes­ter­day as the State of Emer­gency con­tin­ued.

As the Ju­ly/Au­gust va­ca­tion re­pair pro­gramme got un­der­way yes­ter­day, Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath as­sured that the Gov­ern­ment in­tends to have all schools open on time for the new aca­d­e­m­ic year.

The Gov­ern­ment has be­gun a se­ries of pub­lic con­sul­ta­tions on pro­posed Stand Your Ground leg­is­la­tion.

The T&T Blind Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion (TTB­WA) is urg­ing the Gov­ern­ment to al­lo­cate a per­cent­age of the 20,000 hous­ing units it plans to build to peo­ple with dis­abil­i­ties.