Blue Wa­ters Prod­ucts Ltd ex­ec­u­tive chair­man Do­minic Hadeed re­turned to the com­pa­ny’s Or­ange Grove, Trinci­ty head­quar­ters yes­ter­day for the first time since his re­lease from pre­ven­tive de­ten­tion, re­ceiv­ing an emo­tion­al re­cep­tion from em­ploy­ees who ap­plaud­ed, em­braced him and wel­comed him back to work.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has ac­cused crit­ics of her Gov­ern­ment’s an­ti-crime cam­paign of de­lib­er­ate­ly at­tempt­ing to in­flame ten­sions be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go’s two ma­jor eth­nic groups, as part of what she de­scribed as a broad­er ef­fort to un­der­mine the coun­try’s pro­tec­tive ser­vices.

For­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) sen­a­tor Renu­ka Sagram­s­ingh-Sook­lal says the coun­try’s lead­ers need to de­sist from call­ing peo­ple by deroga­to­ry terms.

The Reg­is­trar of the Ju­di­cial Com­mit­tee of the Privy Coun­cil has writ­ten di­rect­ly to the par­ties in the Hadeed mat­ter to cor­rect what she de­scribed as a mis­con­cep­tion aris­ing from a me­dia re­port which sug­gest­ed there would be no ur­gent hear­ing in Lon­don, clar­i­fy­ing that the court stands ready to deal ex­pe­di­tious­ly with any ap­pli­ca­tion filed by the State.

The Min­istry of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty has con­firmed that an­nu­al re­ports re­quired un­der the Strate­gic Ser­vices Agency (SSA) Act and the In­ter­cep­tion of Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Act for the years 2022, 2024 and 2025 re­main be­fore Cab­i­net await­ing ap­proval.

Two for­mer na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty min­is­ters are de­mand­ing an­swers from the Gov­ern­ment over the leak of in­ter­cept­ed tele­phone com­mu­ni­ca­tions in­volv­ing mem­bers of the Hadeed and Sab­ga fam­i­lies, de­scrib­ing it as a grave breach of na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty and call­ing for those re­spon­si­ble to be held ac­count­able.

Pas­tor Clive Dot­tin says Trinidad and To­ba­go needs jus­tice if it is to avoid de­scend­ing in­to chaos.

Three months af­ter a fa­tal jet ski ac­ci­dent claimed the life of sev­en-year-old An­gel­i­ca Jo­gie at Pi­geon Point beach in To­ba­go, the op­er­a­tor of the wa­ter­craft was yes­ter­day charged by po­lice.

An in­ter­na­tion­al re­la­tions ex­pert has warned that Trinidad and To­ba­go’s de­ci­sion to vote against ex­tend­ing the tenure of the Unit­ed Na­tions High Com­mis­sion­er for Hu­man Rights could have con­se­quences for the coun­try’s re­la­tion­ships with some in­ter­na­tion­al part­ners, in­clud­ing their will­ing­ness to share sen­si­tive in­tel­li­gence.

The Massy Stores branch at French Street, Wood­brook, was closed un­til noon yes­ter­day, fol­low­ing a re­port­ed break-in and the dis­cov­ery of a body in the va­cant lot ad­ja­cent to the out­let.

Amid the tragedy of los­ing his el­der­ly moth­er in a house fire, Sean Ho­sein says he is grate­ful for the sup­port shown by Bagatelle res­i­dents who tried to ex­tin­guish the blaze and res­cue her.

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro paid trib­ute to slain po­lice of­fi­cer PC Solomon Mc Leod on Sun­day dur­ing a wreath-lay­ing cer­e­mo­ny mark­ing the 36th an­niver­sary of the 1990 At­tempt­ed Coup.