Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has dis­missed pub­lic con­cerns that State se­cu­ri­ty agen­cies are mon­i­tor­ing cit­i­zens’ pri­vate phone con­ver­sa­tions, say­ing the on­ly peo­ple wor­ried about sur­veil­lance are crim­i­nals and those “suf­fer­ing from de­range­ment and para­noia.”

High Court Judge Mar­garet Mo­hammed has dis­closed her rea­sons for grant­i­ng a Pre­lim­i­nary Un­ex­plained Wealth Or­der (PU­WO) against the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), for it to re­veal the fi­nanc­ing for the ren­o­va­tion and con­struc­tion of its Bal­isi­er House head­quar­ters in Port-of-Spain.

“Promis­es were made and promis­es are be­ing bro­ken - please eman­ci­pate these chil­dren and women and bring them home."

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has praised the in­au­gur­al Miss Afro Trinidad and To­ba­go Pageant as a fit­ting cel­e­bra­tion of African her­itage, re­mem­brance and na­tion­al iden­ti­ty, com­mend­ing Min­is­ter of Cul­ture and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment Michelle Ben­jamin for in­tro­duc­ing what she be­lieves can be­come a last­ing fix­ture on the coun­try’s African Eman­ci­pa­tion cal­en­dar.