Po­lice say there is no ev­i­dence to date sug­gest­ing mem­bers of the LGBTQ com­mu­ni­ty are be­ing tar­get­ed.

On the same day prison of­fi­cers spot­ted a man at­tempt­ing to throw con­tra­band items in­to the prison com­pound, of­fi­cers found im­pro­vised weapons in the ceil­ing of the East­ern Cor­rec­tion­al Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre (ECRC) in San­ta Rosa.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has con­firmed that the new po­lice posts be­ing set up across the coun­try will op­er­ate 24 hours a day and that peo­ple tak­en to them will not be de­tained there.

Al­though Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP) Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro con­tin­ues to re­main tight-lipped about the how joint po­lice and army units will op­er­ate from the new po­lice posts be­ing erect­ed in com­mu­ni­ties across the coun­try, a se­nior of­fi­cer says an up­date is ex­pect­ed by mid-Sep­tem­ber re­gard­ing its roll­out.

A new Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der has been is­sued against Elvis Ryan Lopez, al­so known as “Pig­gy” and “Pig,” who au­thor­i­ties have linked to an in­for­mal gang op­er­at­ing in Moru­ga, St Mary’s and sur­round­ing ar­eas.

As power­boat en­thu­si­asts across the coun­try seek var­i­ous van­tage points to en­joy the Great Race spec­ta­cle on Sat­ur­day, one fan will be do­ing so from the com­fort of his home—in the sea—at Store Bay.

For­mer En­er­gy min­is­ter Stu­art Young is call­ing on Gov­ern­ment to pro­vide more de­tails about the pro­posed re­open­ing of the Point Lisas steel plant, while urg­ing the new own­ers to en­gage the Steel Work­ers’ Union of Trinidad and To­ba­go (SWUTT).

Econ­o­mist Dr Mar­lene Attzs says the pro­posed US$750 mil­lion re­vival of the Point Lisas steel plant could pro­vide a sig­nif­i­cant boost to Trinidad and To­ba­go’s econ­o­my, but be­lieves the true mea­sure of the in­vest­ment will be the last­ing ben­e­fits it cre­ates for the coun­try.

Na­tion­al Union of Gov­ern­ment and Fed­er­at­ed Work­ers (NUGFW) pres­i­dent gen­er­al Christo­pher Streete says “some­body dropped the ball” in im­ple­ment­ing new salaries for ap­prox­i­mate­ly 20,000 work­ers who were grant­ed a 10 per cent wage in­crease ear­li­er this year.

Laven­tille West MP Ka­reem Mar­celle is call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to im­me­di­ate­ly ap­point a board of di­rec­tors for the East Port-of-Spain De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny, ques­tion­ing whether the pro­longed de­lay sig­nals an in­ten­tion to shut down the com­pa­ny.

Cepep work­ers in To­ba­go have be­gun tran­si­tion­ing from san­i­ta­tion and land­scap­ing to farm­ing, as the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) seeks to boost agri­cul­tur­al pro­duc­tion on the is­land.

Heads of Ju­di­cia­ry from sev­en ju­ris­dic­tions that sub­scribe to the Caribbean Court of Jus­tice (CCJ), along with the Or­gan­i­sa­tion of East­ern Caribbean States (OECS) Bar As­so­ci­a­tion and the Or­gan­i­sa­tion of Com­mon­wealth Caribbean Bar As­so­ci­a­tions (OC­C­BA), have ex­pressed con­fi­dence in the re­gion­al court, fol­low­ing re­ports of al­leged is­sues con­cern­ing its in­ter­nal ad­min­is­tra­tion.