Bur­nett was charged with manslaugh­ter on Ju­ly 27 in con­nec­tion with the death of sev­en-year-old An­gel­i­ca Jo­gie on April 8. He is al­leged to have been rid­ing a jet ski that struck An­gel­i­ca and oth­er rel­a­tives in the bathing zone at Pi­geon Point beach.

San Fer­nan­do East MP Bri­an Man­ning was eject­ed from Par­lia­ment yes­ter­day fol­low­ing a heat­ed con­fronta­tion with House Speak­er Jagdeo Singh over his at­tempts to ques­tion a re­duc­tion in fund­ing for the San Fer­nan­do City Cor­po­ra­tion.

The Op­po­si­tion ap­peared to de­liv­er a de­lib­er­ate snub to Sport and Youth Af­fairs Min­is­ter Phillip Watts yes­ter­day, re­fus­ing to ask a sin­gle ques­tion about his min­istry’s $486.4 mil­lion al­lo­ca­tion dur­ing the Stand­ing Fi­nance Com­mit­tee stage of the 2027 Bud­get de­bate.

Cul­tur­al groups in Fe­lic­i­ty have wel­comed bmo­bile’s de­ci­sion to redi­rect fund­ing to com­mu­ni­ty Di­vali cel­e­bra­tions, as the Na­tion­al Coun­cil of In­di­an Cul­ture (NCIC) faces a $500,000 spon­sor­ship short­fall for this year’s Di­vali Na­gar.

The Oil­fields Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU) is hope­ful that work­ers at the Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) will be­gin re­ceiv­ing out­stand­ing cost-of-liv­ing al­lowance (CO­LA) pay­ments be­fore Christ­mas. How­ev­er, the union says sev­er­al years of wage ne­go­ti­a­tions re­main un­re­solved.

Po­lice are try­ing to iden­ti­fy the body of a man who was found near the Mara­cas Bay look­out on the North Coast on Tues­day morn­ing.

The body of a man was found be­low the North Coast Road near the Mara­cas look­out on Tues­day morn­ing.

The Women Par­lia­men­tar­i­ans of Trinidad and To­ba­go (WPTT) have con­demned sex­u­al ref­er­ences and in­nu­en­do di­rect­ed at women par­lia­men­tar­i­ans dur­ing the re­cent bud­get de­bate, say­ing po­lit­i­cal dis­agree­ments must not jus­ti­fy lan­guage that de­means women.

A Coast Guard of­fi­cer who com­mand­ed a ves­sel that ran aground ap­peared be­fore a five-mem­ber mil­i­tary tri­bunal on Mon­day to an­swer four charges aris­ing from the in­ci­dent.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro has con­firmed that law en­force­ment of­fi­cials car­ried out a search at the home of Chief Mag­is­trate Bri­an Dabideen, say­ing he will on­ly pro­vide “up­dates if and when nec­es­sary and ap­pro­pri­ate to do so”.

For­mer Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Mar­vin Gon­za­les says the Ernst & Young re­port be­ing used by his suc­ces­sor, Bar­ry Padarath, to ques­tion trans­ac­tions at the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) was com­mis­sioned un­der the pre­vi­ous Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) ad­min­is­tra­tion to in­ves­ti­gate sus­pect­ed ir­reg­u­lar­i­ties be­fore out­stand­ing in­voic­es were paid.

Britain an­nounced Tues­day that it is ex­pand­ing mil­i­tary sup­port for Sau­di Ara­bia against the Houthis to in­clude “de­fen­sive” air pa­trols by Roy­al Air Force jets, but stressed there is no mil­i­tary so­lu­tion to the con­flict.