For­mer at­tor­ney gen­er­al Anand Ram­lo­gan says claims that the pro­posed Stand Your Ground law can have more dele­te­ri­ous im­pacts on one race are “ridicu­lous” and amount to crim­i­nal­is­ing en­tire com­mu­ni­ties.

The Gov­ern­ment is re­view­ing the list of med­ica­tions of­fered un­der the Chron­ic Dis­ease As­sis­tance Pro­gramme (CDAP), with Health Min­is­ter Dr Lakram Bo­doe con­firm­ing that con­sul­ta­tions have al­ready be­gun.

For­mer At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Anand Ram­lo­gan SC says crit­ics of the Gov­ern­ment’s pro­posed Stand Your Ground law should give up their US visas if they are se­ri­ous about op­pos­ing the leg­is­la­tion.

Thai­land and Cam­bo­dia trad­ed ac­cu­sa­tions Sat­ur­day of fresh at­tacks as dead­ly bor­der clash­es en­tered a third day, leav­ing at least 33 peo­ple dead and more than 168,000 dis­placed, as in­ter­na­tion­al pres­sure mount­ed on both sides to reach a cease­fire.

The gov­ern­ment of Cana­da has start­ed send­ing mil­i­tary sur­veil­lance drones to sup­port Hait­ian se­cu­ri­ty forces, as part of a new ini­tia­tive to com­bat vi­o­lence and the spread of armed gangs across the French-speak­ing Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) mem­ber states.

The Prison Of­fi­cers’ As­so­ci­a­tion is chastis­ing act­ing Pris­ons Com­mis­sion­er Car­los Cor­raspe for what they call his con­tin­ued si­lence dur­ing the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency, say­ing morale among of­fi­cers is ex­treme­ly low.

The T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has been giv­en un­til 4 pm to­day to charge or re­lease a 21-year-old woman from Matu­ra, who was held in con­nec­tion with the kid­nap­ping of Val­sayn res­i­dent Jankie Satie Karim.

Four work­ers re­mained hos­pi­talised yes­ter­day and res­i­dents were left shak­en and trau­ma­tised fol­low­ing Thurs­day’s pow­er­ful ex­plo­sion at Ram­co In­dus­tries Ltd’s San Fer­nan­do fa­cil­i­ty. Now, res­i­dents are call­ing for an emer­gency evac­u­a­tion plan to pre­vent a re­peat of what they de­scribed as a fright­en­ing or­deal.

A dra­mat­ic res­cue un­fold­ed in Port-of-Spain yes­ter­day, as a 57-year-old home­less man clung to a rope above the rain-swollen wa­ters of the East Dry Riv­er, nar­row­ly avoid­ing be­ing swept away be­fore he was res­cued.

To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine says he’s pleased they have been able to curb crime on the is­land in the last year.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pene­lope Beck­les is call­ing on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to come out pub­licly and ex­plain why the coun­try is un­der a State of Emer­gency (SoE).

Thir­ty-five years af­ter the 1990 at­tempt­ed coup, au­thor Otan­cia Noel has chan­nelled her mem­o­ries and imag­i­na­tion in­to Town on Fire, a col­lec­tion of short sto­ries root­ed in one of the coun­try’s most trau­mat­ic events.