Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der says the coun­try will know more about those who are on a list of sus­pect­ed drug traf­fick­ers, com­piled by the Unit­ed States, soon.

The cost to shift the coun­try from the pa­per-based im­mi­gra­tion ar­rival and de­par­ture forms to a dig­i­tal plat­form re­mains un­known, as it re­lates to na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der is as­sur­ing that the au­thor­i­ties are in­ves­ti­gat­ing re­ports of bomb threats, the lat­est com­ing against a car­go plane that left the coun­try re­cent­ly.

Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Faris Al-Rawi is ques­tion­ing why Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der ap­pears to be re­ly­ing on a list from the Unit­ed States to iden­ti­fy in­di­vid­u­als al­leged­ly in­volved in drug traf­fick­ing and or­gan­ised crime in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Op­po­si­tion chief whip Mar­vin Gon­za­les has writ­ten to House Speak­er Jagdeo Singh, ac­cus­ing the Gov­ern­ment of abus­ing par­lia­men­tary rules and in­fring­ing on the rights of the Op­po­si­tion, fol­low­ing a con­tentious in­ci­dent in the Low­er House last Fri­day that prompt­ed the Op­po­si­tion to walk out.

Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor and for­mer For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs min­is­ter Dr Amery Browne has point­ed to emerg­ing cracks with­in the Gov­ern­ment’s stance on the Mid­dle East con­flict, not­ing that two mem­bers now ap­pear to be dis­tanc­ing them­selves from the ad­min­is­tra­tion’s po­si­tion sup­port­ing the Unit­ed States and Is­rael in the war with Iran.

The Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Work­ers Union (CWU) has promised to “bust more files” on the Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go Lim­it­ed (TSTT) in the com­ing weeks, in or­der to es­ca­late scruti­ny amid al­le­ga­tions of fi­nan­cial mis­man­age­ment, po­lit­i­cal in­ter­fer­ence and poor treat­ment of work­ers.

For­mer fi­nance min­is­ter Colm Im­bert is urg­ing cau­tion over the re­cent surge in glob­al oil prices, trig­gered by es­ca­lat­ing ten­sions in­volv­ing the Unit­ed States and Is­rael with Iran. He warned that any short-term rev­enue gains for Trinidad and To­ba­go could be off­set by ris­ing im­port costs.

As the Gov­ern­ment pre­pares to hold talks with US en­er­gy gi­ant Chevron Cor­po­ra­tion on re­newed in­vest­ment in Trinidad and To­ba­go’s en­er­gy sec­tor, an­oth­er un­named Amer­i­can com­pa­ny has ex­pressed in­ter­est in the shut­tered Pointe-à-Pierre Re­fin­ery, En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal has re­vealed.

The Court of Ap­peal has ruled that leg­is­la­tion gov­ern­ing the de­struc­tion of fin­ger­print im­pres­sions af­ter an ac­cused per­son is ex­on­er­at­ed al­so ap­plies to cit­i­zens who are ar­rest­ed but nev­er charged.

A small busi­ness own­er in Care­nage has ob­tained an in­junc­tion pre­vent­ing the Diego Mar­tin Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion from de­mol­ish­ing his mi­ni mart, which the cor­po­ra­tion claims was con­struct­ed with­out plan­ning per­mis­sion.

A po­lice of­fi­cer has been freed of charges for al­leged­ly as­sault­ing a fel­low of­fi­cer in a dis­agree­ment over his cus­tomer ser­vice skills.