Rel­a­tives of mur­dered me­chan­i­cal en­gi­neer Raidal Per­sad yes­ter­day re­mained in shock, as they strug­gled to ac­cept his death fol­low­ing a dead­ly am­bush in Carlsen Field, Ch­agua­nas, on Tues­day.

Jan­ice Lear­mond-Criqui has been ap­point­ed Chair of the new Board of Di­rec­tors of Queen’s Hall. The an­nounce­ment was made on Wednes­day dur­ing the of­fi­cial pre­sen­ta­tion of In­stru­ments of Ap­point­ment at the Min­istry of Cul­ture and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment’s Head Of­fice.

The Gov­ern­ment of Grena­da has ex­pressed deep con­cern about what it de­scribed as an es­ca­la­tion of ac­tiv­i­ties in the Caribbean Sea, warn­ing that the re­gion’s sta­bil­i­ty and the liveli­hoods of its peo­ple must be pro­tect­ed.

Crick­et West In­dies has an­nounced a 15-mem­ber squad for the T20 In­ter­na­tion­al se­ries against Nepal, sched­uled to take place at the Shar­jah Crick­et Sta­di­um in the Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates from Sep­tem­ber 27 to 30.

Pres­i­dent of the Po­lice Ser­vice So­cial and Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion (TTPSS­WA), ASP Gideon Dick­son, says the re­cent an­nounce­ment of a re-shuf­fle at the helm of the Po­lice Ser­vice is mere­ly ad­min­is­tra­tive.

Spe­cial Re­serve Po­lice of­fi­cer An­ton Philip was grant­ed $250,000 bail af­ter ap­pear­ing be­fore Mas­ter of the High Court In­di­ra Chinebas to­day, charged with manslaugh­ter.

The In­ter­na­tion­al Women’s Fo­rum of Trinidad and To­ba­go (IWFTT) held its An­nu­al Gen­er­al Meet­ing on Fri­day 5th Sep­tem­ber at the Hilton Ho­tel, where mem­bers wel­comed two new Di­rec­tors and marked a tran­si­tion in lead­er­ship.

Chair­man of the Con­fed­er­a­tion of Re­gion­al Busi­ness Cham­bers, Vivek Char­ran, says it is time for the gov­ern­ment to come clean on the is­sues sur­round­ing for­eign ex­change.

As the In­dus­tri­al Court marks its 60th year, Pres­i­dent of the In­dus­tri­al Court of T&T, Jus­tice Heather Seale, has ex­pressed strong con­fi­dence in the court’s new­ly ap­point­ed judges, in­clud­ing for­mer labour min­is­ter Rudranath In­dars­ingh, who joins the bench in the Es­sen­tial Ser­vices Di­vi­sion.

Po­lice iden­ti­fied the vic­tim as Raidal Per­sad of Ti­gress Road, Riverview Park, Mon­trose, Ch­agua­nas. He worked at Methanex Ltd.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine says he was sur­prised to learn of Chief Jus­tice Ivor Archie’s an­nounce­ment that he will re­tire next year.

Lon­don 2012 Olympic gold medal­list Keshorn Wal­cott is in the fi­nal of the men’s javelin event at the World Ath­let­ics Cham­pi­onships in Tokyo, Japan. Wal­cott did not hit the au­to­mat­ic stan­dard of 84.50 me­tres but pro­duced a dis­tance of 83.93 me­tres to land in­side the top 12 per­for­mances from the two qual­i­fi­ca­tion groups.