Hous­ing Min­is­ter David Lee has launched an im­me­di­ate in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to al­le­ga­tions of mis­use of a Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) com­pound at Cy­press Hills, San Fer­nan­do, while Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Hous­ing Phillip Ed­ward Alexan­der has or­dered the re­moval of struc­tures erect­ed on a com­mu­nal green space fol­low­ing com­plaints from res­i­dents.

The Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) has writ­ten to the Speak­er of the House seek­ing the re­fer­ral of Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and Leader of Gov­ern­ment Busi­ness Bar­ry Padarath to the Com­mit­tee of Priv­i­leges over state­ments made about in­de­pen­dent sen­a­tors.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is call­ing on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to break her si­lence and name the two in­de­pen­dent sen­a­tors she claims at­tempt­ed to so­lic­it bribes in ex­change for sup­port­ing the Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions (ZOSO) Bill.

Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Util­i­ties Bar­ry Padarath has ac­cused the Law As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (LATT) of “se­lec­tive out­rage,” over its con­cerns on mat­ters raised by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar fol­low­ing Tues­day’s de­feat of the Gov­ern­ment’s Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions (ZOSO) Bill.

The Law As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (LATT) has called up­on all par­tic­i­pants in pub­lic life to re­frain from mak­ing se­ri­ous al­le­ga­tions that can­not be sub­stan­ti­at­ed or prop­er­ly in­ves­ti­gat­ed, and if par­tic­u­lars of the claims can­not be pro­vid­ed, un­ver­i­fi­able ac­cu­sa­tions ought to be pub­licly with­drawn.

For­mer prime min­is­ter Stu­art Young is call­ing on Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo to for­mal­ly in­ter­vene fol­low­ing al­le­ga­tions made by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar against two of her ap­point­ed In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tors.

Works and Trans­port Min­is­ter Jear­lean John says she is await­ing ex­pert as­sess­ments on the MV Blue Wave Har­mo­ny, af­ter the ves­sel sus­tained hull dam­age in Scar­bor­ough.

In re­sponse to warn­ings from school maxi taxi op­er­a­tors that ser­vices could be sus­pend­ed from Mon­day, Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath as­sured that dri­vers are re­ceiv­ing pay­ments.

For­mer Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young has called on Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo to im­me­di­ate­ly seek for­mal clar­i­fi­ca­tion from Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar over al­le­ga­tions that two In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tors at­tempt­ed to trade their votes for per­son­al favours dur­ing de­bate on the Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions (ZOSO) Bill.

A for­mer con­trac­tor with the Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) who sued for over $4 mil­lion was in­stead or­dered to pay the com­pa­ny over $200,000 in le­gal fees.

Tears of joy flowed from Jhu­mantie Mo­hammed af­ter a Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) team ar­rived at her home on Fri­day, con­duct­ing tests and start­ing ex­ca­va­tion of a con­demned WASA line which she be­lieves is re­spon­si­ble for the un­der­min­ing of her Debe home.

The Law As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go says if the al­le­ga­tions made by the Prime Min­is­ter against In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tors have sub­stance, they must be re­port­ed to the ap­pro­pri­ate au­thor­i­ties for a fair in­quiry, and if not, they should be with­drawn.