The Prime Min­is­ter has con­firmed that the Min­istry of Jus­tice will over­see the Prison Ser­vice.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has con­firmed May 23 as the of­fi­cial date for open­ing the up­com­ing par­lia­men­tary term.

To­day is of­fi­cial­ly the last day in of­fice for Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher as her con­tract comes to an end. But she has not yet re­ceived her Let­ter of Reap­point­ment fol­low­ing the lift­ing of her sus­pen­sion.

Do­mini­can at­tor­ney, Clement Joseph, has been ap­point­ed the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tion (DPP) fol­low­ing the re­tire­ment of Ja­maican, An­tho­ny Arm­strong a few years ago, amid crim­i­nal charges for pro­fes­sion­al mis­con­duct brought by the Gen­er­al Le­gal Coun­cil in Ja­maica.

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump told Gulf lead­ers on Wednes­day he ur­gent­ly wants “to make a deal” with Iran to wind down its nu­clear pro­gram but Tehran must end its sup­port of proxy groups through­out the re­gion as part of any po­ten­tial agree­ment.

Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Util­i­ties Bar­ry Padarath has man­dat­ed the ma­jor­i­ty state-owned Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of T&T (TSTT) and its whol­ly owned sub­sidiary, Am­plia, to put a hold on all hu­man re­source ac­tions un­til fur­ther no­tice with im­me­di­ate ef­fect.

The au­thor­i­ty con­firmed this in an ad­ver­tise­ment in yes­ter­day’s news­pa­pers but the res­ig­na­tions oc­curred last week.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar yes­ter­day dou­bled down on her Gov­ern­ment’s in­ten­tion to shift its spend­ing pri­or­i­ties, by an­nounc­ing a sweep­ing cost-cut­ting ini­tia­tive aimed at redi­rect­ing pub­lic funds to­ward es­sen­tial ser­vices.

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher is ex­pect­ed to re­ceive an of­fi­cial let­ter from the Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion to­day say­ing that her sus­pen­sion was lift­ed, paving the way for her to lead the po­lice ser­vice.

For­mer chair­man of the Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PolSC) and at­tor­ney Nizam Mo­hammed and Pamela El­der, SC, want the PolSC to ex­plain why both Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher and Ju­nior Ben­jamin did not re­ceive of­fi­cial let­ters yes­ter­day re­gard­ing their roles and du­ties.

Some busi­ness own­ers are rais­ing con­cerns over mount­ing costs and pro­longed de­lays, as con­tain­ers con­signed to a non-gazetted Gov­ern­ment min­istry re­main stuck at the Port of Port-of-Spain.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) stal­warts are rais­ing alarm over the par­ty’s pro­pos­al to host its in­ter­nal elec­tions by the end of June, a move they say risks fur­ther desta­bil­is­ing the al­ready shak­en par­ty.