West In­dies bat­ting icon Bri­an Lara and his part­ner­ship with the Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TSTT) were the cen­tre of a so­cial me­dia row be­tween for­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley and Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Util­i­ties Bar­ry Padarath yes­ter­day.

Min­is­ter Khadi­jah Ameen says she will not be in­tim­i­dat­ed by any al­leged threats to her safe­ty and life and will car­ry out her re­spon­si­bil­i­ties as nor­mal.

One of two quar­ry op­er­a­tors be­ing linked to the al­leged death threats is­sued to De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge has come out fight­ing back.

To­co/San­gre Grande con­stituents are pray­ing for no harm to come to their Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment and De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge.

Po­lit­i­cal sci­en­tist Dr In­di­ra Ram­per­sad does not be­lieve the Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to can­cel this year’s In­de­pen­dence Day pa­rade will have any sig­nif­i­cant po­lit­i­cal fall­out.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says pub­lic events host­ed by the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress, in­clud­ing the Mon­day Night Re­port, will not be stopped de­spite al­leged death threats to some Cab­i­net min­is­ters.

Crim­i­nol­o­gist Dr Randy Seep­er­sad says al­leged threats against Gov­ern­ment min­is­ters show the crim­i­nal el­e­ments sense a re­al threat from the cur­rent ad­min­is­tra­tion.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro says all the files of ap­pli­cants for firearm users li­cens­es were not de­stroyed af­ter the fire sup­pres­sion sys­tem at the Po­lice Ad­min­is­tra­tion Build­ing mal­func­tioned on Mon­day.

Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) Roger Gas­pard, SC, has ques­tioned the need for a pro­posed law­suit over his of­fice’s per­ceived de­lay in fa­cil­i­tat­ing the tri­al of a group of men ac­cused of the mur­der of Se­nior Coun­sel Dana See­ta­hal. 

Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) whip Mar­vin Gon­za­les has called on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to say whether or not a re­cent se­nior State board ap­pointee is the at­tor­ney with “close ties to the UNC Gov­ern­ment” who is al­leged to be a “con­spir­a­tor” in the plot to kill De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge.

Al­though cur­rent T&T Red Cross So­ci­ety (TTRCS) pres­i­dent Jill de Bourg will not be seek­ing re-elec­tion in Sat­ur­day’s poll at Hillview Col­lege in Tu­na­puna, some mem­bers are ex­press­ing a lack of con­fi­dence in the elec­tion process.

Di­rec­tor of Crime Stop­pers TT, Dar­rin Carmichael, is con­tin­u­ing to stress the im­por­tance of air horns as de­vices in com­mu­ni­ty-lev­el crime-fight­ing ini­tia­tives, as Carlsen Field res­i­dents thwart­ed a home in­va­sion as it hap­pened ear­ly on Mon­day morn­ing.