The In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion has achieved its high­est com­pli­ance rate in terms of an­nu­al de­c­la­ra­tions, this year. 

Joint Trade Union Move­ment (JTUM) gen­er­al sec­re­tary Ozzi War­wick says he ex­pects “a good re­sponse” to the call for cit­i­zens to protest the Cab­i­net’s ac­cep­tance of the 120th Salaries Re­view Com­mis­sion’s (SRC) Re­port to­day.

Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer (CPO) Dr Daryl Din­di­al says the in­crease in Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley’s salary is ac­tu­al­ly clos­er to 25 per cent and not 47 per cent.

To­gie Cox, a fire of­fi­cer who spent years fight­ing to save oth­er peo­ple’s homes from the dev­as­ta­tion of fire, nev­er imag­ined that one day, he would stand help­less be­fore the charred re­mains of his own.

Hours af­ter San Fer­nan­do busi­ness­man Christo­pher Ra­jbal­ly was shot and killed out­side a casi­no, the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty called on law en­force­ment to ad­dress the in­flux of high-pow­ered weapons en­ter­ing T&T.

Ja­maican dance­hall star Vy­bz Kar­tel loves Car­ni­val but says he will not be drawn in­to com­ment­ing on his pos­si­ble per­for­mance in T&T dur­ing the up­com­ing sea­son.

The Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al has un­til next week to de­cide whether it would dis­close a re­port of an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the dis­ap­pear­ance of a case file which led to nine men, for­mer­ly ac­cused of the kid­nap­ping and mur­der of busi­ness­woman Vin­dra Naipaul-Cool­man, be­ing award­ed a $20 mil­lion de­fault judg­ment for ma­li­cious pros­e­cu­tion. 

As­sis­tant Su­per­in­ten­dent of Po­lice (ASP) Avril Fran­cis, of the Spe­cial Vic­tim Unit, is stress­ing the crit­i­cal need for col­lab­o­ra­tion be­tween law en­force­ment and so­ci­ety to com­bat vi­o­lence against women and chil­dren.

A for­mer ex­ec­u­tive di­rec­tor of a re­gion­al non-gov­ern­men­tal or­gan­i­sa­tion (NGO) has lost her law­suit over its re­fusal to re­new her con­tract. 

The North-East­ern Di­vi­sion (NED) record­ed two more killings, hours apart be­tween Thurs­day and yes­ter­day, which brought the over­all mur­der count to 568.

ST GEORGE’S, Grena­da, CMC – The Grena­da gov­ern­ment is deny­ing claims that the is­land will be one of the ju­ris­dic­tions that the in­com­ing Don­ald Trump Ad­min­is­tra­tion has iden­ti­fied to send de­por­ta­tion flights for its promised mass de­por­ta­tion pro­gramme.

Ja­maican Dance­hall artiste Vy­bz Kar­tel has opt­ed not to com­ment on his pos­si­ble ap­pear­ance dur­ing the up­com­ing Car­ni­val sea­son.