Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s months-long chal­lenge to the process used to reap­point Cari­com Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al Dr Car­la Bar­nett will now be de­ter­mined by the Caribbean Court of Jus­tice (CCJ), af­ter re­gion­al lead­ers yes­ter­day agreed to seek an ad­vi­so­ry opin­ion from the re­gion­al court.

Pro­fes­sor Ra­jen­dra Ram­lo­gan has wel­comed Cari­com's ap­proval of T&T's move to seek a Caribbean Court of Jus­tice (CCJ) opin­ion on the reap­point­ment of Cari­com's Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al - and he's queried if an ex­pe­dit­ed hear­ing will be done.

Eleven-year-old Aaron Ed­wards, whose des­per­ate fight against a rare liv­er dis­ease cap­tured na­tion­al at­ten­tion last week, is now a step clos­er to re­ceiv­ing life­sav­ing treat­ment af­ter both Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe in­ter­vened to se­cure as­sis­tance through the Chil­dren’s Life Fund.

For­mer Whim An­gli­can Pri­ma­ry School stu­dent Faith Gra­ham may have been born vi­su­al­ly im­paired but she has re­fused to let that de­fine her.

The Min­istry of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty says more pass­ports are on the way and in­sists there is enough stock to meet cur­rent de­mand, but the min­istry has not dis­closed how many pass­port book­lets re­main avail­able, even as con­cerns from peo­ple fa­mil­iar with the sit­u­a­tion about the coun­try’s sup­ply run­ning low con­tin­ue to per­sist.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is call­ing on Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der to dis­close ex­act­ly how many pass­port book­lets re­main in Trinidad and To­ba­go’s in­ven­to­ry, say­ing the pub­lic still needs a clear pic­ture of the coun­try’s cur­rent sup­ply de­spite as­sur­ances from the min­istry that more pass­ports are on the way.

Re­ports of a raid at the Bel­mont Po­lice Sta­tion on Mon­day, where sev­er­al firearms and a quan­ti­ty of nar­cotics were re­port­ed­ly dis­cov­ered, have been de­nied as fake news by se­nior of­fi­cials with­in the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS).

Al­most three weeks af­ter two men were killed dur­ing cel­e­bra­tions in Siparia, no one has been ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with their mur­ders.

The body of an uniden­ti­fied man, rid­dled with gun­shot wounds, was dis­cov­ered on a road­way in Pe­tit Morne, Phase Two, Ste Madeleine, ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing.

The five Sil­ver Stars Steel Or­ches­tra play­ers who were ar­rest­ed on Sun­day fol­low­ing a scuf­fle with po­lice of­fi­cers dur­ing the TRIBE band launch, have been charged for vary­ing of­fences.

Po­lice have con­firmed Sher­man Irvine, 35, of Black Rock, To­ba­go, has been charged with a se­ries of of­fences re­lat­ed to an elab­o­rate rob­bery that left five ban­dits emp­ty-hand­ed. Irvine ap­peared in court on Fri­day and was de­nied bail.

Busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed and his wife Genevieve have launched an­oth­er bid to se­cure their re­lease from de­ten­tion over an al­leged plot to kill key Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials.