Po­lice are cur­rent­ly at the scene of a mur­der in the vicin­i­ty of the John John in­ter­sec­tion in Port-of-Spain.

This year’s pa­rade will be in a new norther­ly lo­ca­tion in the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, Port-of-Spain—fac­ing Pres­i­dent’s House—in­stead of at the Grand Stand, on the sa­van­nah’s souther­ly side.

Some lo­ca­tions ini­tial­ly iden­ti­fied for Gov­ern­ment’s 30 po­lice posts are be­ing re­con­sid­ered be­cause law en­force­ment may not re­gard the orig­i­nal sites as strate­gi­cal­ly suit­able, Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has re­vealed.

De­spite a meet­ing set to be held to­day be­tween the Tu­na­puna/Pi­ar­co Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion (TPRC) and the Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (Ude­cott), the con­tentious po­lice post at the Ed­die Hart Grounds in Tacarigua has been in­stalled at the lo­ca­tion.

This was the ap­peal from Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) chair­man Mar­vin Gon­za­les, par­tic­u­lar­ly to PNM mem­bers, as he took is­sue with Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s re­cent re­peat­ed ac­cu­sa­tions of “PNM c****e ha­tred.”

Three men were killed in sep­a­rate shoot­ings in Bel­mont and Ari­ma be­tween Fri­day and yes­ter­day morn­ing.

So­ca artiste Ben­jai has apol­o­gised for a so­cial me­dia post which sparked crit­i­cism and of­fend­ed mem­bers of the pub­lic amid height­ened racial ten­sions in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is dis­miss­ing a com­plaint filed against her by for­mer For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs min­is­ter Dr Amery Browne, over what he de­scribes as re­peat­ed racial slurs post­ed on her Face­book ac­count.

Grand Chief of the First Peo­ples Sov­er­eign Na­tions Er­ic Lewis is call­ing for greater vis­i­bil­i­ty, recog­ni­tion and Gov­ern­ment sup­port for Trinidad and To­ba­go’s In­dige­nous com­mu­ni­ties.

South­ern Lawyers' As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent Saira Lakhan is urg­ing cau­tion fol­low­ing re­ports of in­ter­nal strife over the lead­er­ship at the Caribbean Court of Jus­tice (CCJ).

Unit­ed States Deputy Sec­re­tary of State Christo­pher Lan­dau ar­rived in the coun­try yes­ter­day for a two-day of­fi­cial vis­it, as the Gov­ern­ment moves to deep­en co­op­er­a­tion with Wash­ing­ton on se­cu­ri­ty and oth­er ar­eas of mu­tu­al in­ter­est.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dave Tan­coo has point­ed to huge job loss­es un­der the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) watch, re­buk­ing for­mer PNM min­is­ter in the Fi­nance Min­istry, Bri­an Man­ning, for blam­ing his (Tan­coo’s) poli­cies for caus­ing T&T’s un­em­ploy­ment cri­sis.