Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion and Ap­pro­pri­a­tions Com­mit­tee (PAAC) chair­man Jagdeo Singh has ac­cused for­mer health min­is­ter Ter­rence Deyals­ingh of at­tempt­ing to avoid giv­ing ev­i­dence be­fore the com­mit­tee by cre­at­ing a smoke­screen of con­cerns to dic­tate how a par­lia­men­tary in­quiry should be con­duct­ed.

The re­place­ment of the MV Blue Wave Har­mo­ny af­ter just six months of ser­vice on the seabridge has sur­prised mem­bers of the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty. How­ev­er, one stake­hold­er told Guardian Me­dia the de­ci­sion to change the car­go boat has proven her crit­i­cism of the ves­sel was war­rant­ed.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) chair­man Mar­vin Gon­za­les dra­mat­i­cal­ly set fire to a court or­der served on the par­ty over the fi­nanc­ing of its Bal­isi­er House head­quar­ters on Thurs­day night, de­clar­ing that the Op­po­si­tion would not be in­tim­i­dat­ed by the le­gal pro­ceed­ings.

Hours af­ter a Mor­vant man was shot by un­known as­sailants while stand­ing out­side his home, se­nior po­lice of­fi­cials said mo­bile pa­trols had been in­creased in the Port-of-Spain and Mor­vant dis­tricts.

All 29 peo­ple be­lieved to have been aboard the pirogue that cap­sized off Los Iros on Wednes­day have been ac­count­ed for, as res­cuers iden­ti­fied the two vic­tims and pro­vid­ed new de­tails on how the tragedy un­fold­ed.

Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) To­ba­go leader Sham­fa Cud­joe-Lewis says tax­pay­ers will ul­ti­mate­ly bear the cost of the State’s le­gal de­feat in Thurs­day's mat­ter in­volv­ing Do­minic and Genevieve Hadeed, ar­gu­ing that the case goes be­yond the in­di­vid­u­als in­volved and rais­es wider con­cerns about cit­i­zens’ rights and free­doms un­der democ­ra­cy.

Star Sab­ga will have to spend an­oth­er week­end in prison be­fore a judge de­ter­mines whether she should be grant­ed in­ter­im re­lease.

U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s lat­est set of tar­iffs drew ob­jec­tions Fri­day from Amer­i­ca’s trad­ing part­ners in­clud­ing Chi­na and Japan, with Aus­tralia’s trade min­is­ter slam­ming them as “com­plete­ly un­jus­ti­fied.”

Mor­vant res­i­dent Frankie “Fishie” Bartholomew, who was shot by un­known as­sailants on Thurs­day night, re­mains in a crit­i­cal con­di­tion at hos­pi­tal.

A 33-year-old taxi dri­ver was shot dead while cross­ing the road near his New Set­tle­ment home to a mi­ni mart in Ch­agua­nas on Thurs­day evening, in what po­lice be­lieve was a tar­get­ed killing.

The ve­hi­cle of a To­ba­go re­porter was tar­get­ed in an ap­par­ent ar­son at­tack ear­ly on Fri­day morn­ing.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Au­to­mo­tive Deal­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTA­DA) is seek­ing an ur­gent meet­ing with Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo fol­low­ing what it de­scribes as an overnight de­ci­sion by the Cus­toms and Ex­cise Di­vi­sion to im­pose tax­es on mild hy­brid ve­hi­cles pre­vi­ous­ly be­lieved to be tax ex­empt.