At this time in T&T's his­to­ry, a lev­el of col­lab­o­ra­tion may be re­quired to ef­fec­tive­ly ad­dress cer­tain com­plex is­sues, such as crime - but crime, and oth­er is­sues of crit­i­cal im­port can­not be solved by games of "po­lit­i­cal foot­ball" in the Par­lia­ment, Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ny Beck­les has warned the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) Gov­ern­ment.

Af­ter in­den­tured East In­di­ans sweat­ed and toiled in T&T's sug­ar­cane fields, they en­sured that their chil­dren had a space at the ta­ble of de­ci­sion-mak­ing and to­day, a grand­daugh­ter of Bi­har, In­dia, has tak­en her right­ful place as Prime Min­is­ter of T&T for the sec­ond time.

Grate­ful for her ap­point­ment as an In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tor, Dr Mar­lene Attzs has pledged to draw on her ex­per­tise as an econ­o­mist to ad­dress press­ing na­tion­al fi­nan­cial is­sues.

For­mer fi­nance min­is­ter Colm Im­bert yes­ter­day ad­dressed con­cerns over the where­abouts of $135.6 mil­lion in prop­er­ty tax­es col­lect­ed by the State, dis­miss­ing the ques­tions sur­round­ing the funds as sense­less.

For­mer min­is­ter of pub­lic ad­min­is­tra­tion Allyson West is in­sist­ing there were no ghost rentals dur­ing her tenure.

A 64-year-old man was in­jured, and a fam­i­ly of three was tem­porar­i­ly dis­placed af­ter a fire par­tial­ly gut­ted their home in Princes Town yes­ter­day morn­ing.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has pledged to do what he can to sup­port the fight against crime in To­ba­go, promis­ing to en­sure the is­land’s po­lice of­fi­cers have the re­sources they need to keep res­i­dents safe.

A Ch­agua­nas farmer was killed yes­ter­day in an al­leged shootout with po­lice of­fi­cers dur­ing a spe­cial op­er­a­tion. The de­ceased was iden­ti­fied as Rol­ly “Aki” Brown.

The Crim­i­nal Bar As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T says it is “to­tal­ly dis­ap­point­ed” that Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo failed to ad­dress the is­sues plagu­ing the coun­try’s crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem dur­ing the cer­e­mo­ni­al open­ing of 13th Re­pub­li­can Par­lia­ment yes­ter­day.

A for­got­ten lit mos­qui­to coil is be­lieved to have caused a fire that de­stroyed the Moru­ga home of 67-year-old pen­sion­er John Brave­boy.

The Of­fice of the Chief Im­mi­gra­tion Of­fi­cer (CIO) has been held in con­tempt of court for de­port­ing two Venezue­lan mi­grants when there was an in­junc­tion in place for them to re­main in Trinidad. 

A re­tired po­lice of­fi­cer, who was pros­e­cut­ed for wast­ing po­lice time in re­la­tion to a do­mes­tic vi­o­lence re­port against her abu­sive po­lice of­fi­cer hus­band, is set to re­ceive a lit­tle over $200,000 in com­pen­sa­tion.