A se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cer is in a sta­ble con­di­tion af­ter be­ing in­jured in an ac­ci­den­tal firearm dis­charge at the Min­istry of Works and In­fra­struc­ture build­ing in Port of Spain on Wednes­day evening.

Shayana Ruiz was am­bushed and stabbed in the back, face, chest and hand dur­ing a dead­ly at­tack af­ter she went to col­lect an out­stand­ing debt of $4,500 from her for­mer boyfriend on Wednes­day.

Two aunts of mur­dered po­lice of­fi­cer Romell Dou­glas be­lieve that he was lured and killed over a dis­pute for mon­ey aris­ing out of a car ac­ci­dent. How­ev­er, they want his re­main­ing killer/s to face the death penal­ty.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says she was deeply af­fect­ed by re­cent racist at­tacks di­rect­ed at her, not be­cause of the per­son­al in­sults, but be­cause they re­flect­ed a loss of hu­man­i­ty that threat­ens Trinidad and To­ba­go’s so­cial fab­ric.

With busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed, his wife Genevieve, and her 69-year-old aunt Star Sab­ga no longer in prison, there is no longer the same need for their law­suits over their de­ten­tions for a pur­port­ed plot to as­sas­si­nate key Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials to be de­ter­mined ur­gent­ly.

Jen­nifer John­son-Car­roll, US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s nom­i­nee for the post of am­bas­sador to Trinidad and To­ba­go, says the re­peat­ed States of Emer­gency “doesn’t bode well” for T&T’s on­go­ing bat­tle against crime.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has dis­missed what she de­scribed as ef­forts by “race grifters” and oth­ers to spread racist pro­pa­gan­da, urg­ing sup­port­ers not to be dis­tract­ed by in­flam­ma­to­ry com­men­tary.

Crim­i­nal Bar As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent Is­rael Ra­jah-Khan, SC, has called on judges to treat for­mer at­tor­ney gen­er­al Faris Al-Rawi’s pub­lic com­ments on the Hadeed pre­ven­tive de­ten­tion case as con­tempt of court, ac­cus­ing him of mis­rep­re­sent­ing the Privy Coun­cil’s po­si­tion and dis­cussing mat­ters that re­main be­fore the courts.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath says threats against his life will not pre­vent him from car­ry­ing out his pub­lic du­ties or at­tend­ing com­mu­ni­ty events, stress­ing that the in­creased se­cu­ri­ty around him was ini­ti­at­ed by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) and not re­quest­ed by him.

De­spite con­cerns raised by phar­ma­cy as­so­ci­a­tions over med­ica­tion short­ages un­der the Chron­ic Dis­ease As­sis­tance Pro­gramme (CDAP), the Trinidad and To­ba­go As­so­ci­a­tion of Re­tired Per­sons (TTARP) says it has not re­ceived com­plaints from its mem­bers about be­ing un­able to ac­cess their pre­scrip­tions.

For­mer For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs min­is­ter Dr Amery Browne has re­ject­ed the Gov­ern­ment’s ex­pla­na­tion for Trinidad and To­ba­go’s de­ci­sion to vote against ex­tend­ing the man­date of Unit­ed Na­tions High Com­mis­sion­er for Hu­man Rights Volk­er Türk, ac­cus­ing For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers of of­fer­ing “new ex­cus­es” days af­ter the con­tro­ver­sial vote.

Two peo­ple ac­cused of op­er­at­ing a hu­man traf­fick­ing net­work in To­ba­go are among the lat­est in­di­vid­u­als placed un­der Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) dur­ing the State of Emer­gency.