Venezuela’s gov­ern­ment has called on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to tone down the dead­ly force rhetoric she used against their coun­try and her crit­i­cism of Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro.

For­mer prime min­is­ter Stu­art Young is call­ing on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to re­con­sid­er her claim that T&T was off-lim­its to Venezuela and that she would put the Coast Guard on alert to use dead­ly force if any ves­sel from that coun­try sought to ac­cess lo­cal wa­ters il­le­gal­ly.

For­mer ed­u­ca­tion min­is­ter Dr Nyan Gads­by-Dol­ly is not im­pressed by the Gov­ern­ment’s move to ex­pel stu­dents who per­pe­trate acts of vi­o­lence in school. The for­mer min­is­ter said in­ci­dents of school vi­o­lence have al­ready been re­port­ed to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS).

For­mer Cepep chair­man Joel Ed­wards has dis­missed claims that the re­new­al of hun­dreds of con­tracts in the weeks lead­ing up to the April 28 Gen­er­al Elec­tion was po­lit­i­cal­ly mo­ti­vat­ed.

For­mer min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Fi­nance, Vas­ant Bharath, has ex­pressed shock over what he calls “deep de­cep­tion” by the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) ad­min­is­tra­tion re­gard­ing the true fi­nan­cial state of Caribbean Air­lines (CAL).

The To­ba­go Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (TRHA) says it has le­gal op­tions to re­cov­er mil­lions of tax­pay­ers’ dol­lars if the am­bu­lances it bought are un­fit for use or fall short of con­tract spec­i­fi­ca­tions.

Tick­et­ing plat­form Is­land eT­ick­ets is threat­en­ing le­gal ac­tion against Ja­cho En­ter­tain­ment af­ter the col­lapse of the One Caribbean Mu­sic Fes­ti­val, de­mand­ing the re­turn of US$80,000 ad­vanced to head­line act Adid­ja “Vy­bz Kar­tel” Palmer.

A large group of Spe­cial Re­serve Po­lice of­fi­cers (SRPs) is threat­en­ing to bring con­tempt of court pro­ceed­ings against the Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP) if the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) fails to ho­n­our a court or­der.

A 38-year-old man from Cara­po has been freed of mur­der­ing an Arou­ca busi­ness­man with­out hav­ing to go on tri­al.

A High Court Judge has sought to re­solve a le­gal dis­pute be­tween the Trinidad Ri­fle As­so­ci­a­tion and the Ch­aguara­mas De­vel­op­ment Au­thor­i­ty (CDA) over con­trol of a par­cel of land in Tuck­er Val­ley on which the for­mer’s shoot­ing range op­er­ates.

A Cunu­pia teenag­er, who ac­com­pa­nied two friends to Mara­cas Beach for an un­planned sea bath, trag­i­cal­ly drowned ten min­utes af­ter en­ter­ing the wa­ter.

The Laven­tille Out­reach for Ver­ti­cal En­rich­ment (LOVE) move­ment, a mem­ber of the UNC’s Coali­tion of In­ter­ests, says it did not get a sub­stan­tive po­si­tion with the Gov­ern­ment be­cause the Prime Min­is­ter said it did not ask for one in a time­ly man­ner.