A Cen­tral man and his wife were grant­ed bail yes­ter­day, af­ter they were charged in re­la­tion to the rape of the woman’s rel­a­tive and the sub­se­quent abor­tion of the man’s child.

Par­al­lel pros­e­cu­tions by the Oc­cu­pa­tion­al Safe­ty and Health Au­thor­i­ty (OSH Au­thor­i­ty) in re­la­tion to a div­ing tragedy at Paria Fu­el Trad­ing Com­pa­ny’s Pointe-a-Pierre fa­cil­i­ty in 2022, which claimed the lives of four divers, may now be in lim­bo.

High Court Judge Frank Seep­er­sad has warned that he will not fa­cil­i­tate un­jus­ti­fied de­lays in a mul­ti-mil­lion-dol­lar car­tel law­suit brought by the Es­tate Man­age­ment and Busi­ness De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny Ltd (EM­BD) against a group of con­trac­tors, for­mer EM­BD of­fi­cials and for­mer hous­ing min­is­ter and cur­rent En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal.

The T&T Po­lice Ser­vice So­cial and Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion (TTPSS­WA) has thrown its sup­port be­hind Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro, say­ing his de­ci­sions so far have been aimed at im­prov­ing the op­er­a­tions of the ser­vice.

Sources with­in the Ju­di­cia­ry say for­mer Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) Ge­of­frey Hen­der­son may be Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo’s pre­ferred choice to be­come the next Chief Jus­tice of T&T. How­ev­er, oth­er in­sid­ers point to for­mer DPP Mark Mo­hammed as the front-run­ner with­in the Ju­di­cia­ry, as he is cur­rent­ly the most se­nior ap­pel­late judge af­ter Jus­tice Nolan Bereaux, who is set to re­tire soon. On so­cial me­dia, some mem­bers of the pub­lic have in­stead called for High Court Judge Frank Seep­er­sad to be con­sid­ered.

Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Faris Al-Rawi has firm­ly dis­missed claims that Chief Jus­tice Ivor Archie was pres­sured by the Gov­ern­ment to re­tire.

Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Fi­nance, Dr Kennedy Swarats­ingh, is as­sur­ing To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine that the is­land will re­ceive a fair share when the na­tion­al bud­get is pre­sent­ed in the com­ing weeks.

Frus­tra­tion boiled over at the Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) head­quar­ters in Ste Madeleine yes­ter­day as for­mer con­trac­tors de­mand­ed out­stand­ing pay­ments fol­low­ing their con­tro­ver­sial dis­missals more than two months ago.

Amid a heavy case­load, staff short­ages and fi­nan­cial con­straints, the In­dus­tri­al Court dis­posed of more than 850 mat­ters over the past year. Court Pres­i­dent Jus­tice Heather Seale an­nounced the fig­ures yes­ter­day while ex­press­ing op­ti­mism that long-over­due up­grades will be­gin in the new fis­cal year.

Tem­po­rary In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tor Wes­ley Gib­bings says a unit­ed Cari­com po­si­tion is vi­tal and ab­solute­ly es­sen­tial on the cur­rent is­sues con­cern­ing Venezuela, and he doesn’t see any sense in the frag­men­ta­tion that’s be­ing pro­posed by some.

A bridge-builder in T&T’s very di­verse so­ci­ety, a voice of rea­son, a gi­ant of the Sen­ate and the very best of the Up­per House.

Dr Lenny Saith was yes­ter­day de­scribed as a man who be­lieved in ser­vice above self, who left an in­deli­ble mark on the na­tion­al land­scape with­out seek­ing the lime­light, who was hum­ble, and whose shoes are very hard to fill.