Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (DCP) in charge of Ad­min­is­tra­tion Ju­nior Ben­jamin is boast­ing about the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice’s abil­i­ty to keep the mur­der rate at low­er lev­els than last year.

The Law As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (LATT) has ex­pressed con­cern over per­son­al at­tacks against Court of Ap­peal judges, fol­low­ing their rul­ing in the Hadeed case. It says while ro­bust pub­lic de­bate of ju­di­cial de­ci­sions is le­git­i­mate in a democ­ra­cy, crit­i­cism must re­main re­spect­ful and not de­scend in­to un­found­ed al­le­ga­tions that im­pugn the in­tegri­ty or in­de­pen­dence of the Ju­di­cia­ry.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der says sev­en months af­ter be­ing pro­claimed, the home in­va­sion leg­is­la­tion is al­ready hav­ing an im­pact in de­ter­ring vi­o­lent break-ins, cit­ing mul­ti­ple ar­rests, the de­ten­tion of known of­fend­ers and an in­crease in law­ful firearm ap­pli­ca­tions since it came in­to force late last year.

A surge in seis­mic ac­tiv­i­ty across Trinidad and To­ba­go has height­ened pub­lic con­cern af­ter two earth­quakes shook the coun­try yes­ter­day morn­ing. How­ev­er, seis­mol­o­gists are urg­ing res­i­dents not to mis­take the re­cent in­crease in tremors as ev­i­dence that a larg­er earth­quake is im­mi­nent.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says Trinidad and To­ba­go has al­ready be­gun pro­vid­ing as­sis­tance to Guyana, fol­low­ing the dead­ly cap­siz­ing of the MV Bari­ma pas­sen­ger fer­ry off that coun­try’s coast.

The fam­i­lies of six fish­er­men miss­ing aboard the fish­ing ves­sel St Vin­cent VII are call­ing for an in­ten­si­fied re­gion­al res­cue ef­fort and help from the T&T Gov­ern­ment, say­ing they are run­ning out of time as the search con­tin­ues with no con­firmed signs of their loved ones.

A flight sim­u­la­tion will be held be­fore the new ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port ter­mi­nal is of­fi­cial­ly opened.

Work­ers of the Na­tion­al Pro­gramme for the Up­keep of Pub­lic Spaces (NPUPS) are de­mand­ing their pay af­ter work­ing for sev­er­al fort­nights with­out com­pen­sa­tion.

The pres­i­dent of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Farm­ers’ Union, Shi­raz Khan, is call­ing for ur­gent face-to-face dis­cus­sions with the Gov­ern­ment and Nestlé over the com­pa­ny’s planned ex­it from the lo­cal milk col­lec­tion in­dus­try, say­ing dairy farm­ers are still be­ing kept in the dark about the rea­sons be­hind the move.

Days be­fore the 36th an­niver­sary of the 1990 at­tempt­ed coup, DCP in charge of Ad­min­is­tra­tion Ju­nior Ben­jamin says he is con­fi­dent in the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice’s abil­i­ty to ef­fec­tive­ly counter and re­spond to any large-scale ter­ror threat, sim­i­lar to what was ob­served decades ear­li­er.

A High Court judge has ruled that the Cus­toms and Ex­cise Di­vi­sion (CED) act­ed with­in the law when it chal­lenged the de­clared val­ue of im­port­ed goods and re­quired de­posits dur­ing gen­uine val­u­a­tion dis­putes.

Af­ter more than 90 years of car­ing for the el­der­ly, the JC Mc­Don­ald Home for the Aged in San Fer­nan­do is ap­peal­ing for help as it strug­gles to meet month­ly ex­pens­es, pay staff and car­ry out much-need­ed re­pairs.