Po­lit­i­cal an­a­lysts have of­fered dif­fer­ing views on the Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) de­ci­sion to walk out of Par­lia­ment on Fri­day, fol­low­ing ac­cu­sa­tions of bias against Speak­er of the House Jagdeo Singh.

One day af­ter his wife, Grace­lyn Ram­ber­an, and their son Randy Ram­per­sad were shot dead by as­sailants at their Ste Madeleine home, 58-year-old Vi­jai Ram­per­sad con­tin­ues to cling to life at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal.

Thir­ty-sev­en days af­ter he went miss­ing, Ch­agua­nas club own­er Im­raz Ali’s de­com­pos­ing body was found down a precipice, wrapped in plas­tic, off the North Coast Road yes­ter­day.

Three weeks af­ter 12-year-old Mari­ah Seenath was mur­dered, rel­a­tives, friends, com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers, her school­mates and oth­er con­cerned cit­i­zens gath­ered yes­ter­day for a can­dle­light vig­il, call­ing for jus­tice and re­mem­ber­ing the young girl’s life.

Be­tween last Sun­day and yes­ter­day, 17 peo­ple, in­clud­ing Ch­agua­nas busi­ness­man Im­raz Ali, were added to the mur­der toll.

As Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo pre­pares to de­liv­er his first na­tion­al bud­get to­mor­row, all eyes are on how the Gov­ern­ment plans to bal­ance the books amid ris­ing ex­pen­di­ture and a widen­ing fis­cal deficit.

On ap­proach to the ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port in To­ba­go, the run­way is al­most sur­round­ed by the sea—a sight that can un­set­tle even the sea­soned trav­eller. But the ocean’s close prox­im­i­ty to both the run­way and the air­port has be­come a grow­ing area of con­cern and study across the re­gion.

South West­ern Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing two home in­va­sions that oc­curred hours apart in Pe­nal and Fyz­abad on Thurs­day.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the mur­ders of two men fol­low­ing a shoot­ing in Va­len­cia on Fri­day night.

Eigh­teen peo­ple have been charged af­ter po­lice un­cov­ered a large-scale il­le­gal quar­ry­ing op­er­a­tion in the Manuel Con­go area of Gua­napo dur­ing a pre-dawn raid on Thurs­day.

A fish­ing trip end­ed in tragedy on Fri­day af­ter 46-year-old Ram­dath Pana drowned off Pt. Ga­le­o­ta Road, Guayagua­yare.

A 73-year-old pen­sion­er was killed in Ari­ma on Thurs­day night af­ter be­ing stabbed out­side his home.