Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP) Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro is stand­ing de­fi­ant in the face of death threats from the crim­i­nal el­e­ments di­rect­ed at him and his fam­i­ly, in­sist­ing he will not al­low “cow­ard­ly” acts of in­tim­i­da­tion to de­ter him from hunt­ing down the crim­i­nals.

Pris­ons Com­mis­sion­er Car­los Cor­raspe has been sent on leave, days af­ter the Prison Of­fi­cers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (POA) com­plained about al­leged VIP treat­ment be­ing giv­en to busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed, who is cur­rent­ly in­car­cer­at­ed at the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison (MSP) in Arou­ca un­der a Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO).

For­mer For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs min­is­ter Dr Amery Browne has called on Gov­ern­ment to say if it will sup­port the Unit­ed States’ call to dis­man­tle the In­ter­na­tion­al Crim­i­nal Court (ICC), which late for­mer prime min­is­ter and pres­i­dent Arthur NR Robin­son played an in­stru­men­tal role in es­tab­lish­ing.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der says most of the homi­cides record­ed for the year thus far were not gang-re­lat­ed or care­ful­ly planned at­tacks, but ran­dom ar­gu­ments and do­mes­tic dis­putes.

Call­ing on law en­force­ment to get a grip on crime, the griev­ing moth­er of Ny­ron Davis yes­ter­day lament­ed that he was in­no­cent and sim­ply in the wrong place at the wrong time.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) says it has noth­ing to hide and is prepar­ing to fight what it de­scribes as an at­tempt to tar­nish the par­ty’s rep­u­ta­tion in an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the source of funds used to ren­o­vate its Bal­isi­er House head­quar­ters.

For the fifth con­sec­u­tive year, Trinidad and To­ba­go has re­mained the coun­try with the high­est num­ber of ap­peals be­fore the Privy Coun­cil.

The Gov­ern­ment con­tin­ues to push back against grow­ing crit­i­cism over its pro­posed ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence da­ta cen­tres, with Ter­tiary Ed­u­ca­tion and Skills Train­ing Min­is­ter Pro­fes­sor Prakash Per­sad ac­cus­ing op­po­nents of be­ing “naysay­ers” who com­plain re­gard­less of the out­come, while Pe­nal/Debe Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion Chair­man Gow­tam Ma­haraj sought to re­as­sure the pub­lic that any risks as­so­ci­at­ed with the project would be prop­er­ly man­aged.

Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der says he ex­pects the new e-pass­port sys­tem to be brought on­line with­in a mat­ter of months, as he put for­ward a ten­ta­tive time­line of ear­ly 2027 for the sys­tem to be rolled out.

An in­ter­na­tion­al telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions and da­ta in­fra­struc­ture ex­ec­u­tive is ques­tion­ing whether Trinidad and To­ba­go is pre­pared for the scale of ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence (AI) da­ta cen­tres out­lined in the Gov­ern­ment’s re­cent­ly an­nounced mem­o­ran­dum of un­der­stand­ing (MOU), warn­ing that the coun­try could face sig­nif­i­cant tech­ni­cal, en­er­gy and eco­nom­ic chal­lenges if the projects pro­ceed with­out com­pre­hen­sive plan­ning.

A To­ba­go cop has been charged with wound­ing with in­tent to cause griev­ous bod­i­ly harm fol­low­ing a shoot­ing at Bloody Bay on June 8.

Two-time Ca­lyp­so Monarch Lin­da Mc­Cartha Sandy-Lewis, bet­ter known as Ca­lyp­so Rose, was ho­n­oured in New York as the Caribbean Cul­tur­al Cen­tre African Di­as­po­ra In­sti­tute (CC­CA­DI) cel­e­brat­ed its 50th an­niver­sary on Sat­ur­day.