The re­cent shake-up in the hi­er­ar­chy of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) is draw­ing mixed re­ac­tions, with some po­lice of­fi­cers, as well as a south­ern busi­ness cham­ber and a crim­i­nol­o­gist ques­tion­ing the de­ci­sion. Oth­ers, though, say the changes are com­plete­ly nor­mal.

Chair­man of the Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion Dr Wen­dell Wal­lace says it is the pre­rog­a­tive of the Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice to as­sign and re­as­sign se­nior of­fi­cers as he sees fit.

A po­lice con­sta­ble has been charged in con­nec­tion with the shoot­ing death of mu­nic­i­pal po­lice of­fi­cer Ja­mal Charles, which oc­curred in a guard booth at the Min­istry of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment.

At least one stu­dent from the Preysal Sec­ondary School has been sus­pend­ed for lock­ing a po­lice of­fi­cer in a class­room.

Four mem­bers of a car-steal­ing ring have been or­dered to be de­tained at the East­ern Cor­rec­tion­al Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre in San­ta Rosa un­der the State of Emer­gency reg­u­la­tions.

This was Cari­com’s mes­sage yes­ter­day af­ter Guatemalan armed forces il­le­gal­ly en­tered Be­lize’s ter­ri­to­ry and hoist­ed their flag on Be­lizean ter­ri­to­ry.

This was the de­fi­ant stance tak­en by For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers dur­ing a tele­phone in­ter­view with Guardian Me­dia, mak­ing it clear that this coun­try would not be in­tim­i­dat­ed.

Min­is­ter of Works and In­fra­struc­ture Jear­lean John was on the ground at the Sea Lots wa­ter pumps yes­ter­day, as­sur­ing cit­i­zens that her min­istry is work­ing around the clock to keep Port-of-Spain dry and to strength­en the coun­try’s flood re­sponse.

Res­i­dents and busi­ness­es in Union Hall, San Fer­nan­do, are again call­ing for ur­gent drainage up­grades af­ter Mon­day’s floods left roads im­pass­able and prop­er­ties un­der wa­ter.

Pres­i­dent of the Na­tion­al Par­ent Teacher As­so­ci­a­tion (NPTA), Wal­ter Stew­art, says the Ed­u­ca­tion Min­istry in­tends to rent the 300-plus chairs need­ed for stu­dents of South East Port-of-Spain Sec­ondary School (SE­POS), at least in the short term, as it is not the on­ly school in need of fur­ni­ture.

Of­fi­cers from the La Ro­maine Po­lice Post and the San Fer­nan­do Crime Pa­trol Unit re­cov­ered a stolen ve­hi­cle dur­ing an An­ti-Crime Stop and Search ex­er­cise in La Ro­maine on Mon­day.

Bar­ba­dos is set to have a new head of state, as Prime Min­is­ter Mia Amor Mot­t­ley and Op­po­si­tion Leader Ralph Thorne to­day signed the of­fi­cial doc­u­ments nom­i­nat­ing for­mer health min­is­ter and re­tired mil­i­tary of­fi­cer, Lieu­tenant Colonel Jef­frey Bostic, to be the is­land’s sec­ond pres­i­dent.