A 16-year-old boy has been charged with sev­er­al counts of ha­rass­ment fol­low­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to cy­ber-re­lat­ed threats made against stu­dents and staff of Rio Claro East Sec­ondary School be­tween No­vem­ber 2025 and Feb­ru­ary 2026.

At a time when pub­lic con­fi­dence in polic­ing con­tin­ues to face scruti­ny across the re­gion, mem­bers of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) have brought home ma­jor re­gion­al ho­n­ours af­ter emerg­ing among the Caribbean’s top law en­force­ment pro­fes­sion­als at the 40th An­nu­al Con­fer­ence of the As­so­ci­a­tion of Caribbean Com­mis­sion­ers of Po­lice (AC­CP) in Para­mari­bo, Suri­name.

Shell-shocked and in dis­be­lief that his daugh­ter-in-law is now fac­ing crim­i­nal charges and ac­cused of killing his son, Christo­pher Sama­roo yes­ter­day tes­ti­fied that Ka­ia Sealy was noth­ing short of an an­gel who loved Joshua Sama­roo dear­ly.

Crim­i­nal Bar As­so­ci­a­tion (CBA) pres­i­dent Is­rael Khan, SC, yes­ter­day en­dorsed Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions Roger Gas­pard’s de­ci­sion in the Joshua Sama­roo shoot­ing probe, say­ing he (Gas­pard) was not some­one giv­en to im­pulse.

The star­tling twist to the Joshua Sama­roo probe, which re­sult­ed in his girl­friend Ka­ia Sealy fac­ing charges of manslaugh­ter and shoot­ing with in­tent, has sent shock­waves among Op­po­si­tion par­lia­men­tar­i­ans.

Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Faris Al-Rawi and Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment deputy leader San­jiv Bood­hu are call­ing on Land and Le­gal Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sad­dam Ho­sein to di­rect­ly ad­dress mount­ing con­cerns linked to Land­mark­TT and al­le­ga­tions of nepo­tism and crony­ism.

The last sit­ting of the first ses­sion of Par­lia­ment was not with­out con­tro­ver­sy, as the Op­po­si­tion staged a walk­out from the Low­er House, ac­cus­ing the Gov­ern­ment of abus­ing its par­lia­men­tary ma­jor­i­ty to si­lence Op­po­si­tion voic­es dur­ing de­bate on the Vic­tims’ Rights Bill.

The fa­ther of mur­dered two-year-old An­ge­lo To­bias-Plaza is leav­ing jus­tice in the hands of God, even as he strug­gles to cope with the loss of his son.

Rel­a­tives of 23-year-old Ja­mal Rogers in­sist he was in­no­cent and are plead­ing with po­lice to find those re­spon­si­ble for gun­ning him down at his Princes Town home.

An­oth­er prison of­fi­cer has been de­tained un­der a Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO) in the lat­est batch is­sued by Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der.

There will be no dis­ci­pli­nary ac­tion by the Sen­ate’s Com­mit­tee of Priv­i­leges against Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tors Janelle John-Bates and Faris Al-Rawi.

Deputy House Speak­er Dr Aiy­na Ali has re­ject­ed a mo­tion seek­ing leave to re­fer House Speak­er Jagdeo Singh to Par­lia­ment’s Priv­i­leges Com­mit­tee, over al­le­ga­tions of bias and con­flict of in­ter­est linked to a par­lia­men­tary in­quiry in­to phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals.