A 51-year-old Arou­ca man was killed on Wednes­day morn­ing af­ter a truck lost con­trol and slammed in­to a ve­hi­cle he was dri­ving.

Po­lice are search­ing for a La Hor­quet­ta man who re­port­ed­ly shot at them while they were on pa­trol in the area.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce has called for a phased ap­proach to changes in nat­ur­al gas pric­ing fol­low­ing an in­crease an­nounced by the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar con­firmed that all tyres have been re­moved from an il­le­gal dump site at For­ress Park Trace, Clax­ton Bay, and said the tyre shop own­er re­spon­si­ble will face fines from lit­ter war­dens for lit­ter­ing.

Pa­tri­ot­ic Front po­lit­i­cal leader Mick­ela Pan­day is call­ing on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to ei­ther name the In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tors she ac­cused of seek­ing per­son­al favours in ex­change for leg­isla­tive sup­port, or with­draw the al­le­ga­tion en­tire­ly.

Pres­i­dent of the Crim­i­nal Bar As­so­ci­a­tion, Is­rael B. Khan, SC, says Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s al­le­ga­tion that two In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tors sought per­son­al favours in ex­change for sup­port­ing the Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions (ZOSO) Bill amounts to a claim of se­ri­ous crim­i­nal con­duct and re­quires a for­mal in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has ac­cused Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar of politi­cis­ing na­tion­al tragedy, re­spond­ing di­rect­ly to a so­cial me­dia post in which the Prime Min­is­ter at­tacked the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment over crime and gang vi­o­lence.

The Caribbean Nat­ur­al Re­sources In­sti­tute con­vened its re­gion­al Part­ners Fo­rum on cli­mate jus­tice on Jan­u­ary 19 and 20 in Bar­ba­dos.

Two peo­ple were ar­rest­ed and nar­cotics and am­mu­ni­tion were seized dur­ing po­lice ex­er­cis­es con­duct­ed on Wednes­day.

A col­li­sion in­volv­ing a minibus taxi and a truck killed at least 11 peo­ple in South Africa on Thurs­day, a lo­cal gov­ern­ment of­fi­cial and emer­gency ser­vices said, just over a week af­ter a sim­i­lar road crash left 14 school­child­ren dead.

In­de­pen­dent sen­a­tors are force­ful­ly re­ject­ing a bomb­shell al­le­ga­tion by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar that two mem­bers of their bench at­tempt­ed to seek per­son­al favours in ex­change for sup­port­ing the Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions (ZOSO) Bill.

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress Gov­ern­ment Sen­a­tor Phillip Alexan­der has called on all nine in­de­pen­dent sen­a­tors to re­sign be­fore next Tues­day’s Sen­ate sit­ting.