Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the cir­cum­stances that led to the deaths of two chil­dren af­ter a fire gut­ted a house in Lan­g­ley Park, George­town.

Jack Warn­er is open to con­test­ing a seat in the up­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tion for the Op­po­si­tion Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC), but on­ly if po­lit­i­cal leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is open to the idea.

De­spite calls by the Oil­fields Work­ers’ Trade Union and Op­po­si­tion to scrap the Petrotrin re­fin­ery bid­ding process, act­ing Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young says his ad­min­is­tra­tion will go ahead with the short­list­ed en­ti­ties and re­mains will­ing to re­open the moth­balled fa­cil­i­ty.

While he has no in­ter­est in the in­ter­nal pol­i­tics un­fold­ing in the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment, Jack Warn­er be­lieves Pen­ne­lope Beck­les-Robin­son is best suit­ed to lead the par­ty.

Gov­ern­ment Sen­a­tor Renu­ka-Sagram­s­ingh Sook­lal has re­vealed that she lost a cousin to mur­der and ad­mon­ished the Op­po­si­tion for mak­ing it seem as if Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) politi­cians are im­mune to the emo­tion­al an­guish of crim­i­nal acts.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment deputy leader Ro­han Sinanan is stand­ing be­hind act­ing Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young, de­spite the back­lash fol­low­ing his sala­cious com­ments about Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar dur­ing the Bud­get de­bate on Oc­to­ber 10.

Min­is­ter of Tourism, Cul­ture and the Arts, Ran­dall Mitchell, came un­der fire on so­cial me­dia and from the Op­po­si­tion yes­ter­day for im­ply­ing that cit­i­zens trav­el out­side of T&T for a greater ap­pre­ci­a­tion of how good they have it in this coun­try.

The tug boat So­lo Creed, which was re­spon­si­ble for aban­don­ing the cap­sized barge Gulf­stream and caus­ing a ma­jor oil spill in To­ba­go in Feb­ru­ary this year,  has been “ar­rest­ed” by Trinidad and To­ba­go of­fi­cials in An­go­la.

The caus­es of fam­i­ly break­down are mul­ti­fac­to­r­i­al and re­quire a re­set­ting of the norms with­in so­ci­ety and a na­tion­al fo­cus on re­spect for women and the fam­i­ly.

The son of the ex­ec­u­tive chair of the Eman­ci­pa­tion Sup­port Com­mit­tee was gunned down in Bel­mont yes­ter­day.

Less than two weeks be­fore po­lice of­fi­cer Shel­don Pe­ter­son was killed by an armed man out­side the gro­cery where he worked in Ari­ma, he ex­pressed fears about his per­son­al safe­ty, as he be­lieved too much-un­want­ed at­ten­tion was be­ing at­tract­ed to the busi­ness op­er­a­tions.

Lament­ing that crim­i­nals were with­in her com­mu­ni­ty, the moth­er of En­ri­co and grand­moth­er of Ani­ka Guer­ra, who were mur­dered in Moru­ga in Au­gust, said yes­ter­day she doesn’t know who to trust—in­clud­ing the po­lice.