Op­po­si­tion Chief Whip Mar­vin Gon­za­les says his con­cerns sur­round­ing the Joshua Sama­roo and Ka­ia Sealy mat­ter are not about the in­de­pen­dence of the Of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP), but about what he de­scribed as a cul­ture of se­cre­cy sur­round­ing pub­lic of­fice.

Ten­sions flared in Port-of-Spain yes­ter­day as a protest de­mand­ing trans­paren­cy in a con­tro­ver­sial po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing end­ed with the ar­rest of the or­gan­is­er and her moth­er fol­low­ing a con­fronta­tion with of­fi­cers.

Mus­lims across Trinidad and To­ba­go joined the glob­al Is­lam­ic com­mu­ni­ty yes­ter­day to cel­e­brate Eid ul-Ad­ha with prayers, char­i­ty and re­flec­tion on faith, grat­i­tude and obe­di­ence to God.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has again tak­en a dig at the po­lice ser­vice over their han­dling of the in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the death and sus­pect­ed mur­der of two-year-old An­ge­lo To­bias-Plaza.