While every­one’s talk­ing about Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP) Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher’s re­in­state­ment, for­mer Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PolSC) mem­ber, Prof Ramesh De­osaran, be­lieves Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (DCP) – In­tel­li­gence and In­ves­ti­ga­tions Suzette Mar­tin has ques­tions to an­swer.

A date is ex­pect­ed to be an­nounced soon for the open­ing of Par­lia­ment’s new term—the First Ses­sion of the 13th Par­lia­ment, of­fi­cial sources con­firmed yes­ter­day.

De­spite not re­ceiv­ing a min­is­te­r­i­al port­fo­lio, Con­gress of the Peo­ple (COP) leader Prakash Ra­mad­har says he does not feel slight­ed by the Prime Min­is­ter and sought to as­sure that mat­ters are in the works.

The Na­tion­al Trans­for­ma­tion Al­liance (NTA) has pledged to press ahead with its po­lit­i­cal mis­sion, an­nounc­ing in­ter­nal elec­tions for Sep­tem­ber 5, this year, fol­low­ing the res­ig­na­tion of found­ing po­lit­i­cal leader Gary Grif­fith last week.

Min­is­ter of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Sean Sobers be­lieves he can get the Unit­ed King­dom gov­ern­ment to ease its visa re­quire­ments for Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­als, as he says a sol­id so­lu­tion has been found.

The labour move­ment is in­ten­si­fy­ing its calls for the re­moval of In­dus­tri­al Court Judge Lar­ry Achong, ac­cus­ing him of bias and mis­con­duct. Labour lead­ers say Achong com­pro­mis­es the cred­i­bil­i­ty and fair­ness of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s in­dus­tri­al re­la­tions sys­tem.

Po­lice are search­ing for a Venezue­lan woman who was kid­napped on Sun­day night from the carpark of the Dou­ble Palm Inn in Cen­tral Trinidad.

A High Court judge yes­ter­day slammed the state and po­lice as he award­ed near­ly $300,000 in dam­ages in a ma­li­cious pros­e­cu­tion case in which a man was charged with four break­ing and en­ter­ing charges, de­spite be­ing in po­lice and prison cus­tody at the time of the al­leged crimes.

A cou­ple who were hik­ing along La Or­ange Trace, Heights of Aripo, Ari­ma, were shocked and fright­ened on Sun­day af­ter­noon, af­ter they stum­bled up­on a bloody corpse on the trail.

A fiery crash in Point Fortin on Sun­day has claimed the life of a 25-year-old man and left a woman in crit­i­cal con­di­tion.

A Bel­mont woman, who was said to have been a long-time vic­tim of do­mes­tic abuse at the hands of a close male rel­a­tive, was stabbed to death on Sun­day dur­ing an ar­gu­ment with the sus­pect at her home.

Trinidad and To­ba­go was rocked by a mag­ni­tude 5.5 earth­quake at 8.41 pm on Sun­day, ac­cord­ing to the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies’ Seis­mic Re­search Cen­tre (UWI-SRC). Shak­ing from this earth­quake was felt as far away as Grena­da.