Out­spo­ken Se­nior Coun­sel Is­rael Khan has called on Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young to ini­ti­ate an in­de­pen­dent probe in­to Chief Jus­tice Ivor Archie’s con­duct in the short-lived ju­di­cial ap­point­ment of for­mer chief mag­is­trate Mar­cia Ay­ers-Cae­sar.

The Court of Ap­peal had be­gun to hear sub­mis­sions in the ap­peal of five men con­vict­ed of kid­nap­ping and mur­der­ing busi­ness­man Dr Ed­ward Koury. 

Po­lit­i­cal leader of the PNM To­ba­go Coun­cil An­cil Den­nis has again ac­cused the To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP) of se­cret­ly col­lab­o­rat­ing and ne­go­ti­at­ing with the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC).

Po­lice of­fi­cers were forced to use a taser and even­tu­al­ly had to shoot a men­tal­ly-ill man, af­ter he at­tacked them with a knife twice.

As Prime Min­is­ter and in­cum­bent MP for Port-of-Spain North/ St Ann's West Stu­art Young con­tin­ued his push to muster sup­port from his lat­est com­mu­ni­ty walk­a­bout, sev­er­al res­i­dents in Bel­mont took the time to raise con­cerns about safe­ty and wa­ter sup­ply with him.

The dis­cov­ery of a loaded pis­tol among the prison pop­u­la­tion at the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison (MSP), Gold­en Grove, Arou­ca, on Wednes­day, is caus­ing alarm among prison of­fi­cers.

Min­is­ter of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Faris Al-Rawi is cau­tion­ing vot­ers that elect­ing the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress could jeop­ar­dise the ben­e­fits to be had from the US$133 mil­lion T&T re­cov­ered from the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port cor­rup­tion scan­dal.

A 24-year-old man from Black Rock, Fort Ben­nett, is ex­pect­ed to be charged with the mur­der of Ver­na­do George, al­so called Mon­ster, who was shot and killed on March 25 at Tur­tle Beach, Black Rock.

Po­lice have cap­tured two teenagers, in­clud­ing a 14-year-old, fol­low­ing a high-speed chase and shootout on the Claude Noel High­way in To­ba­go on Wednes­day night. How­ev­er, one sus­pect re­mains on the run.

The death toll from the earth­quake that hit Myan­mar near­ly a week ago rose Thurs­day to 3,145 as search and res­cue teams found more bod­ies, the mil­i­tary-led gov­ern­ment said, and hu­man­i­tar­i­an aid groups scram­bled to pro­vide sur­vivors med­ical care and shel­ter.

Three years af­ter four divers lost their lives in what be­came known as the Paria div­ing tragedy, the gov­ern­ment has de­cid­ed to award $1 mil­lion to each of their fam­i­lies and an ad­di­tion­al $1 mil­lion to the lone sur­vivor.

She ac­knowl­edged that the UNC’s lead­er­ship in­formed her of the de­ci­sion to choose a new can­di­date for Tabaquite. “I un­der­stand the Par­ty’s de­ci­sion and be­lieve the se­lect­ed can­di­date re­flects its present phi­los­o­phy,” she said, wish­ing her con­stituents well as they en­ter a “new era of rep­re­sen­ta­tion.”