A T&T Po­lice Ser­vice re­lease said the cou­ple was al­so or­dered to have no con­tact with their 13-year-old daugh­ter, af­ter ap­pear­ing be­fore the Ch­agua­nas Mag­is­trates’ Court charged with a se­ries of sex­u­al of­fences.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has ex­pressed sad­ness over the death of two-year-old Ky­mani Fran­cis in Point Fortin.

If mar­i­jua­na is to be used for pain man­age­ment and oth­er types of med­ical af­flic­tions, the is­sue of re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion must be ex­am­ined, since, like any phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal, there is risk of ad­dic­tion and that’s a se­ri­ous is­sue.

Even as Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Fitzger­ald Hinds has an­nounced that po­lice are en­gaged in an op­er­a­tion to re­move an es­ti­mat­ed 12,000 il­le­gal firearms from the hands of crim­i­nals, one crim­i­nol­o­gist says guns and am­mu­ni­tion are en­ter­ing through le­gal ports stuffed in items like bags of ce­ment.