Econ­o­mist Dr Vanus James said he is not sur­prised that the To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP) still owes ser­vice providers from the last two elec­tions.

St Fran­cis of As­sisi Ro­man Catholic Parish in San­gre Grande marked Good Fri­day with its an­nu­al Sta­tions of the Cross pro­ces­sion, draw­ing parish­ioners of all ages to re­flect on the events lead­ing to Christ’s cru­ci­fix­ion.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the killing of a 42-year-old man at his home along the East­ern Main Road, Va­len­cia Stretch, San­gre Grande, in the ear­ly hours of Good Fri­day.

Po­lice said Elise Mor­ris, who used a wheel­chair, was on the up­per floor of her home at Robin­son Lane, Suc­cess Vil­lage, at 8.26 pm when the house caught fire.

Po­lice have now iden­ti­fied the six in­di­vid­u­als, among them a woman, who were de­tained fol­low­ing a March 17 raid at a house along Mar­shall Trace, Munroe Road, Cunu­pia, link­ing them to an or­gan­ised crim­i­nal group in­volved in hu­man traf­fick­ing and pros­ti­tu­tion.

While res­i­dents of Dun­don­ald Hill, St James, con­tin­ue to grieve the mur­der of 11-month-old Jay­den Sut­ton, they say they con­tin­ue to live as best as they can, al­though the fear that blood­shed will con­tin­ue de­spite an on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE) lingers.

Po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tors are try­ing to con­firm the iden­ti­ty of a woman whose body was found along the North Coast Road on Wednes­day night.

Rakesh Jag­ger­nauth ap­peared in court yes­ter­day, charged with the mur­der of Ce­dros crick­eter Rashme Deoa­jit.

Two Venezue­lans were ar­rest­ed fol­low­ing a high-speed chase and ex­change of gun­fire with po­lice, af­ter a ve­hi­cle was stolen from a PH taxi dri­ver at gun­point in Princes Town on Wednes­day night. No one was in­jured but po­lice re­cov­ered two firearms.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has praised the con­tri­bu­tion of health­care work­ers in her East­er mes­sage, even as she con­tin­ues to re­main silent on the im­passe be­tween nurs­es and the North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA).

Trinidad and To­ba­go Na­tion­al Nurs­es As­so­ci­a­tion (TTNNA) pres­i­dent Idi Stu­art is rais­ing se­ri­ous con­cerns over re­ports that the North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA) is mov­ing to re­cruit more than 100 mid­wives from In­dia, de­scrib­ing the de­vel­op­ment as both in­ad­e­quate and dis­re­spect­ful to lo­cal health­care pro­fes­sion­als.

Gov­ern­ment is head­ing to Par­lia­ment to strength­en laws aimed at crack­ing down on what it de­scribes as a “wa­ter theft rack­et” by pri­vate con­trac­tors.