The Law As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (LATT) is call­ing on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to with­draw what it de­scribes as dis­parag­ing re­marks against In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tors fol­low­ing the Gov­ern­ment’s fail­ure to se­cure their sup­port for pro­posed leg­is­la­tion.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the rob­bery and rape of a woman by two men in Ari­ma on Sun­day evening.

The Le­gal Aid and Ad­vi­so­ry Au­thor­i­ty (LAAA) has marked 50 years of pro­vid­ing le­gal as­sis­tance to peo­ple in Trinidad and To­ba­go, with of­fi­cials high­light­ing its role in mak­ing jus­tice more ac­ces­si­ble.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) is ap­peal­ing to the pub­lic for as­sis­tance in lo­cat­ing 77-year-old Taran Gal­lai of Pe­nal, who was re­port­ed miss­ing on Mon­day.

Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo has de­scribed the late ca­lyp­so leg­end Dr Slinger Fran­cis­co, bet­ter known as the Mighty Spar­row, as one of the great in­ter­preters of Caribbean life, whose mu­sic helped gen­er­a­tions un­der­stand their cul­ture and iden­ti­ty.

Guyana Pres­i­dent Dr Ir­faan Ali has paid trib­ute to ca­lyp­so leg­end the Mighty Spar­row, de­scrib­ing his death as the end of an era in Caribbean mu­sic and cul­ture.

The num­ber of con­firmed cas­es of Ebo­la virus in Con­go has surged past 8,000, as the coun­try runs out of health work­ers to con­tain the dead­ly dis­ease.

The Unit­ed States Em­bassy in Trinidad and To­ba­go says Trinidad and To­ba­go has tak­en a ma­jor step in strength­en­ing re­gion­al co­op­er­a­tion against nar­co-ter­ror­ism by join­ing the Unit­ed States in des­ig­nat­ing 25 crim­i­nal or­gan­i­sa­tions as for­eign ter­ror­ist or­gan­i­sa­tions.

For­mer na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty min­is­ter Fitzger­ald Hinds is call­ing on the Op­po­si­tion PNM to mo­bilise thou­sands of sup­port­ers and pe­ti­tion Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo not to as­sent to the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Bill, ar­gu­ing that the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing its pas­sage in the Sen­ate war­rant her in­ter­ven­tion.

Slinger Fran­cis­co, the leg­endary ca­lyp­son­ian known across the Caribbean and around the world as The Mighty Spar­row, has died at the age of 91.

Trib­utes con­tin­ue to pour in for ca­lyp­so icon Slinger “The Mighty Spar­row” Fran­cis­co, with na­tion­al and re­gion­al lead­ers, artistes and cul­tur­al or­gan­i­sa­tions mourn­ing the loss of one of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s most in­flu­en­tial cul­tur­al fig­ures.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les and for­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley have con­demned Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s de­ci­sion to re­ject fu­ture amend­ments pro­posed by the nine in­de­pen­dent sen­a­tors, with Beck­les warn­ing that the move could sig­nal an at­tempt to re­shape the In­de­pen­dent bench in the Gov­ern­ment’s favour.