Mo­torists can ex­pect tem­po­rary traf­fic re­stric­tions along the west­bound Churchill Roo­sevelt High­way and Beetham High­way be­tween the Aranguez Over­pass and Pi­o­neer Dri­ve from Ju­ly 13 to Ju­ly 24 as the Min­istry of Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion car­ries out pave­ment mark­ing works.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the theft of parts from a life­guard tow­er at the beach near Beau­mont Road in Ma­yaro.

Busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed and his wife Genevieve have lost their ini­tial bid for their law­suit, al­leg­ing that they are be­ing tar­get­ed by the Gov­ern­ment based on their eth­nic­i­ty and an on­go­ing le­gal dis­pute over the ter­mi­na­tion of leas­es for State land, to be ex­pe­dit­ed.

The fam­i­ly of sev­en-year-old An­gel­i­ca Jo­gie, who was struck and killed by a jet ski at Pi­geon Point on April 8, in­tends to pur­sue le­gal ac­tion against the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) over the tragedy.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has ruled out any im­me­di­ate move for Trinidad and To­ba­go to adopt the Caribbean Court of Jus­tice (CCJ) as its fi­nal court of ap­peal, even as she wel­comed the re­gion­al court’s im­pend­ing role in re­solv­ing the dis­pute over the reap­point­ment of Cari­com Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al Dr Car­la Bar­nett.

Bar­ba­dos Prime Min­is­ter Mia Mot­t­ley has an­nounced that Trinidad and To­ba­go will play a key role in ad­vanc­ing a long-await­ed in­tra-re­gion­al fer­ry ser­vice, re­veal­ing that Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has agreed to ex­plore the use of one of this coun­try’s fer­ries as a proof of con­cept while longer-term pri­vate sec­tor arrange­ments are fi­nalised.

Hunters Search and Res­cue teams are search­ing a wa­ter­course at Park Lane, Gopaul Lands, Mara­bel­la, af­ter re­ceiv­ing a re­port that the body of a ba­by was seen float­ing in the wa­ter.

As Cari­com pre­pares to seek an ad­vi­so­ry opin­ion from the Caribbean Court of Jus­tice (CCJ) on the process used to reap­point its Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al Dr Car­la Bar­nett, some stake­hold­ers say the move could pro­vide long-await­ed le­gal clar­i­ty while strength­en­ing the re­gion­al body’s gov­er­nance and de­ci­sion-mak­ing.

Min­is­ters Bar­ry Padarath (Pub­lic Util­i­ties), Roodal Mooni­lal (En­er­gy) and David Lee (Hous­ing) have praised Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar fol­low­ing Tues­day’s an­nounce­ment that Cari­com agreed to her pro­pos­al to re­fer the reap­point­ment of Cari­com’s Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al to the Caribbean Court of Jus­tice (CCJ) for ad­vi­so­ry opin­ion.

Twen­ty more men have been placed un­der pre­ven­tive de­ten­tion or­ders dur­ing the State of Emer­gency, with au­thor­i­ties al­leg­ing they are gang lead­ers, en­forcers, shoot­ers, ad­vis­ers and af­fil­i­ates in­volved in or­gan­ised crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty across Trinidad.

The T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has re­mind­ed par­ty pro­mot­ers and pa­trons that they have a re­spon­si­bil­i­ty to com­ply with the law at pub­lic events, in­clud­ing the court-ap­proved clos­ing times.

Se­nior po­lice of­fi­cers in the East­ern Di­vi­sion have so far ap­plied for 36 Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) as the State of Emer­gency (SoE) con­tin­ues.