Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Sen­a­tor Fos­ter Cum­mings yes­ter­day warned that the leaked Hadeed-Sab­ga au­dio record­ing rais­es se­ri­ous ques­tions about cit­i­zens’ pri­va­cy rights, say­ing every per­son should be con­cerned if pri­vate con­ver­sa­tions can no longer re­main pri­vate.

Af­ter be­ing de­tained a month ago on Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs), two men ac­cused of fly­ing drones in­to pris­ons were charged on Sat­ur­day and are to ap­pear in court vir­tu­al­ly to­day.

A ma­jor coun­ter­traf­fick­ing op­er­a­tion in To­ba­go has shocked the is­land and left Sig­nal Hill res­i­dents dis­turbed by the se­ri­ous­ness of the al­le­ga­tions.

Res­i­dents in dif­fer­ent neigh­bour­hoods in Mor­vant say the preva­lence of vi­o­lent crime, cou­pled with fears of an im­pend­ing gang war, has placed them on alert.

Just days af­ter two Venezue­lan mi­grants, in­clud­ing a six-year-old girl, drowned when an over­crowd­ed pirogue cap­sized in the Colum­bus Chan­nel, an­oth­er il­le­gal sea voy­age has end­ed in tragedy.

Two Trinidad and To­ba­go mar­itime ex­perts have been ap­point­ed to the Com­mis­sion of In­quiry (COI) es­tab­lished by Guyana Pres­i­dent Dr Ir­faan Ali to in­ves­ti­gate the cap­siz­ing and sink­ing of the MV Bari­ma on Ju­ly 18 while trav­el­ling from George­town to Port Kai­tu­ma, in what has be­come the coun­try’s dead­liest mar­itime dis­as­ter. Au­thor­i­ties have since re­cov­ered dozens of bod­ies while res­cue and re­cov­ery ef­forts con­tin­ue.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les and Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment deputy leader San­jiv Bood­hu will meet for­mer Na­tion­al Al­liance for Re­con­struc­tion (NAR) hostage Wen­dell Ever­s­ley to­day as he be­gins his an­nu­al walk from Ari­ma to the Red House, Port-of-Spain, in re­mem­brance of the 1990 at­tempt­ed coup.

The Caribbean Court of Jus­tice (CCJ) has not yet re­ceived a for­mal re­quest from Cari­com to pro­vide an ad­vi­so­ry opin­ion on the reap­point­ment of Cari­com Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al Dr Car­la Bar­nett.

The MV Gold­en Car­ri­er is be­ing hailed as “one of the most su­pe­ri­or” car­go boats in Trinidad and To­ba­go his­to­ry.

For more than three decades, Ju­nior Bis­nath has ded­i­cat­ed his life to keep­ing chil­dren off the streets and on stilts.

A pair of Chi­nese na­tion­als have been ac­quit­ted of traf­fick­ing two Venezue­lan girls based on the fail­ure of the State to prove the ages of the al­leged vic­tims. 

Af­ter spend­ing al­most two decades in prison, five men have been freed of mur­der­ing a man, whose body has nev­er been found.