The chief im­mi­gra­tion of­fi­cer has is­sued a no­tice to mem­bers of her staff ex­press­ing “great dis­tress” about an in­ci­dent be­tween an im­mi­gra­tion of­fi­cer and an Air­ports Au­thor­i­ty se­cu­ri­ty guard, which left the of­fi­cer beat­en and bruised.

Two sus­pects were held by po­lice hours af­ter gun­men opened fire on three men at Hillaire Street, Diego Mar­tin, on Wednes­day night.

The Unit­ed States and Trinidad and To­ba­go gov­ern­ments are press­ing full steam ahead with the es­tab­lish­ment of a vet­ted unit for the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS). This fol­lows the sign­ing of a Mem­o­ran­dum of Un­der­stand­ing (MOU) be­tween Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Fitzger­ald Hinds, US Drug En­force­ment Ad­min­is­tra­tion (DEA) Spe­cial Agent Denise Fos­ter along­side US Am­bas­sador Can­dace Bond.

Among re­ports be­ing laid when Par­lia­ment re­sumes to­day is the Salaries Re­view Com­mis­sion’s 120th re­port, which re­views the SRC’s con­tro­ver­sial 117th re­port that the Gov­ern­ment had re­turned to the SRC to ad­dress anom­alies, in­clud­ing re­gard­ing the ju­di­cia­ry.

Wat­son Duke has la­belled the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly’s (THA) de­ci­sion to re­strict ex­pen­di­ture to 2023 lev­els in 2025 as an elec­tion ploy, and one he is pre­dict­ing will leave To­ba­go in dis­ar­ray.

Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty, Kei­th Scot­land, says he is pleased with the con­ver­sa­tions gen­er­at­ed out of his re­cent re­marks about laws bar­ring chil­dren be­low the age of 16 from ac­cess­ing so­cial me­dia, not­ing they were time­ly and nec­es­sary. 

For just over three years, Dr Car­la Bar­nett has been serv­ing as sec­re­tary-gen­er­al of the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com).

Siparia May­or Dood­nath Mayrhoo is now fac­ing the threat of a no-con­fi­dence mo­tion against him fol­low­ing an­oth­er wave of cor­rup­tion al­le­ga­tions.

Hours af­ter the pro­mot­er for this week­end’s Freeze Con­cert was suc­cess­ful in se­cur­ing dance­hall and oc­ca­sion­al li­cences yes­ter­day, the two main artistes billed to per­form pulled out af­ter they were warned that lo­cal im­mi­gra­tion of­fi­cials would de­tain them up­on ar­rival in T&T and send them back to Ja­maica.

The Min­istry of Works and Trans­port has made amend­ments to The Mo­tor Ve­hi­cles and Road Traf­fic (Amend­ment to the Ninth Sched­ule) (No 2) Or­der, 2024 specif­i­cal­ly as it re­lates to changes to traf­fic fine and de­mer­it point sys­tem, with a fo­cus on re­duc­ing penal­ties for cer­tain of­fences and es­tab­lish­ing new rules for dis­abil­i­ty park­ing per­mits.

The Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) has ex­pressed deep con­cern about the tran­si­tion­al gov­er­nance process in its Mem­ber State, Haiti.

The Po­lice Ser­vice is urg­ing par­ents, teach­ers and care­givers to look out for and mon­i­tor the be­hav­iour of chil­dren in their care, as many chil­dren suf­fer from the ef­fects of bul­ly­ing and oth­er trau­ma in si­lence—some­times lead­ing to them dy­ing by sui­cide.