More heat­ed de­bate is ex­pect­ed in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives on Wednes­day as MPs turn their at­ten­tion to the ef­fec­tive­ness of the State of Emer­gency (SoE) and the ris­ing mur­der toll in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

U.K. Prime Min­is­ter Keir Starmer in­sist­ed Tues­day that he has no in­ten­tion of re­sign­ing as calls grew loud­er with­in his Labour Par­ty for him to step down and some ju­nior mem­bers of his gov­ern­ment quit in protest.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Prison Ser­vice of­fi­cial­ly re­launched the TTPrS NEC QUEEN to­day, restor­ing one of the key ma­rine ves­sels used to trans­port of­fi­cers, in­mates, sup­plies and oth­er per­son­nel to and from the Car­rera Con­vict Prison.

New laser speed en­force­ment de­vices ca­pa­ble of de­tect­ing speed­ing mo­torists from in­side po­lice ve­hi­cles were launched by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice on Tues­day, as part of ac­tiv­i­ties mark­ing the end of Unit­ed Na­tions Road Safe­ty Week.

Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe says re­cent demon­stra­tions by nurs­es and health­care work­ers over pro­posed re­duc­tions to over­time rates have not dis­rupt­ed ser­vices across the pub­lic health­care sys­tem.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing al­le­ga­tions of sex­u­al as­sault, rob­bery, false im­pris­on­ment and as­sault in­volv­ing a 38-year-old woman from Mal­gretoute Road, Princes Town, and a 54-year-old man from Princess Mar­garet Street, San Fer­nan­do.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) has ad­vised cus­tomers in sev­er­al North-East Trinidad com­mu­ni­ties that wa­ter sup­ply has been re­duced be­cause of low riv­er lev­els caused by pro­longed dry sea­son con­di­tions.

A 32-year-old Cal­i­for­nia man was ar­rest­ed on Mon­day dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise con­duct­ed by of­fi­cers at­tached to the South­ern Di­vi­sion.

The woman who was knocked down along the Churchill-Roo­sevelt High­way in Aranguez on Mon­day morn­ing has now been iden­ti­fied as a 74-year-old San­ta Cruz res­i­dent, po­lice said.

A 25-year-old Ma­yaro man was robbed of elec­tron­ics, jew­ellery and cash when he vis­it­ed Laven­tille to con­duct a trans­ac­tion with strangers he met through Face­book Mar­ket­place on Mon­day morn­ing.

A 33-year-old man from Bar­rack­pore, who was sen­tenced to hang for the bru­tal mur­ders of his es­tranged com­mon-law wife and their 14-month-old daugh­ter, has ap­pealed.

Siparia May­or Dood­nath Mayrhoo says plans for a J’Ou­vert cel­e­bra­tion and cul­tur­al ex­trav­a­gan­za to mark the bor­ough’s an­niver­sary cel­e­bra­tions will pro­ceed de­spite ob­jec­tions from PNM coun­cil­lors and a UNC al­der­man over fund­ing for mu­sic trucks and a band.