The Pub­lic Trans­port Ser­vice Cor­po­ra­tion (PTSC) has ex­tend­ed con­do­lences and pledged sup­port to the af­fect­ed fam­i­lies of vet­er­an bus dri­ver Mun­saf Khan and SWAT Es­tate Po­lice Com­pa­ny of­fi­cer Rox­anne Phillip, fol­low­ing Tues­day’s fa­tal crash that claimed the lives of the two.

Bri­an Lara is urg­ing politi­cians to keep his name out of any di­vi­sive top­ic or de­bate, as the war of words con­tin­ues be­tween the Gov­ern­ment and for­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley over an al­leged move to dis­re­spect the crick­et leg­end.

Al­though mys­tery con­tin­ues to sur­round the ori­gin of al­leged death threats is­sued to De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge, at least two of his Cab­i­net col­leagues have as­sured that this is not af­fect­ing his abil­i­ty to per­form his du­ties. This, de­spite his non-ap­pear­ance in the last week.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro is sup­port­ing Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar in her stance that Gov­ern­ment will not be spend­ing tax­pay­ers’ dol­lars to as­sist four na­tion­als re­cent­ly de­tained in Venezuela.

The Min­is­ter of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment says no de­ci­sion has been made by the min­istry to deduct al­lowances for chair­men and con­venors of com­mit­tees from coun­cil­lors’ retroac­tive back­pay pay­ments.

Unit­ed States Vice Pres­i­dent JD Vance has used Trinidad and To­ba­go as an ex­am­ple of a high crime rate af­fect­ing a coun­try, while de­fend­ing Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s se­cu­ri­ty crack­down in Wash­ing­ton, DC.

Jus­tice Min­is­ter De­vesh Ma­haraj yes­ter­day hint­ed that vir­tu­al court hear­ings may soon re­sume at the Port-of-Spain Mag­is­trates’ Court, as Gov­ern­ment seeks to al­le­vi­ate some of the stress placed on of­fi­cers at the Besson Street Po­lice Sta­tion.

Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) Stu­dents Guild pres­i­dent Vedanand Har­gob­in says thou­sands of stu­dents at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies’ (UWI) St Au­gus­tine cam­pus are re­lieved that they will not have to pay a 20 per cent in­crease in tu­ition fees come Sep­tem­ber 3.

A Princes Town cou­ple en­dured a ter­ri­fy­ing or­deal in the ear­ly hours of Tues­day when four masked ban­dits broke in­to their home, as­sault­ed them, and es­caped with cash, valu­ables, and even the keys to their cars.

A rou­tine Mon­day morn­ing in the San Fer­nan­do court took on a weight­i­er tone as eight men faced charges stem­ming from a tar­get­ed firearm sup­pres­sion ex­er­cise ear­li­er this month. Some walked out on bail un­der strict con­di­tions, while oth­ers were or­dered to re­main be­hind bars as the crack­down on il­le­gal guns in the South­ern Di­vi­sion in­ten­si­fies.

Hav­ing lost four hous­es be­cause of land­slips, res­i­dents of Sa­ha­dath Trace, Princes Town, are call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to en­sure that road re­pairs are done prop­er­ly, say­ing on­go­ing works in their com­mu­ni­ty have failed mul­ti­ple times, leav­ing them bat­tling with dust and in­con­ve­nience.

Corinth Hills res­i­dents say they are fed up with sewage spills, which are gush­ing from pipes near Build­ing 13, leav­ing res­i­dents ill and chil­dren’s bod­ies cov­ered in rash­es. Some fam­i­lies have evac­u­at­ed as the stench in­creas­es, flood­ing drains and walk­ways with soiled toi­let pa­per and raw filth.