A 51-year-old Beetham man is be­ing treat­ed for a gun­shot wound he sus­tained af­ter an ar­gu­ment with an­oth­er man in his neigh­bour­hood on Thurs­day night.

The death of an 11-year-old Stan­dard Four stu­dent of the Sanatan Dhar­ma Ma­ha Sab­ha-run Ca­roni Hin­du Pri­ma­ry School has sparked con­fu­sion, as con­flict­ing ac­counts have emerged about the cir­cum­stances lead­ing to her pass­ing.

While they are grate­ful that the re­mains of their loved one were fi­nal­ly found, the moth­er and aunt of mur­der vic­tim Sal­isha Ali say they con­tin­ue to grap­ple with the grief of her loss, es­pe­cial­ly when they re­flect on the vi­o­lent cir­cum­stances be­hind her death.

The Op­po­si­tion is call­ing for greater clar­i­ty on the fu­ture of the US-in­stalled radar sys­tem in To­ba­go, af­ter De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge said Gov­ern­ment is work­ing with the Unit­ed States to find a re­place­ment be­cause the sys­tem is cost­ly.

Leader of gov­ern­ment busi­ness Bar­ry Padarath has ac­cused the Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) of po­lit­i­cal hypocrisy, re­ject­ing claims by Op­po­si­tion Chief Whip Mar­vin Gon­za­les that the Gov­ern­ment abused par­lia­men­tary rules to shut down de­bate in the Low­er House last week.

For­mer na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty Mar­vin Gon­za­les has slammed the Gov­ern­ment for re­fus­ing to dis­close the cost of the new on­line Ar­rival/De­par­ture Card (ADC) plat­form, ac­cus­ing Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der of us­ing “na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty” as a shield for in­com­pe­tence.

To­ba­go hote­liers are an­tic­i­pat­ing a bumper East­er hol­i­day sea­son as vis­i­tors, par­tic­u­lar­ly Tri­nis, seem set to flock to the is­land with their fam­i­lies.

While T&T re­mains un­der a State of Emer­gency (SoE) aimed at curb­ing vi­o­lent crime, busi­ness op­er­a­tors along High Street in San Fer­nan­do say rob­beries and pick­pock­et­ing con­tin­ue much as be­fore.

Gov­ern­ment’s mo­tion to ex­tend the cur­rent State of Emer­gency (SoE) for three more months—un­til June—will be de­bat­ed in Par­lia­ment this af­ter­noon.

Res­i­dents of Hill­piece in Phillip­pine, San Fer­nan­do, say they are liv­ing in fear af­ter two pit bulls vi­cious­ly at­tacked an el­der­ly man last Fri­day evening, leav­ing him with se­vere in­juries and the loss of use of one of his hands.

For­mer Mi­nor­i­ty Leader Kelvon Mor­ris will face ex-To­ba­go West MP Sham­fa Cud­joe for the lead­er­ship of the PNM To­ba­go Coun­cil.

The fam­i­lies of two south Trinidad fish­er­men re­main anx­ious­ly await­ing news as re­gion­al search ef­forts con­tin­ue for the men who dis­ap­peared while de­liv­er­ing the fish­ing pirogue Kam­pai to St Vin­cent and the Grenadines ear­li­er this month.