Po­lice have held two sus­pects in con­nec­tion with the rob­bery in­volv­ing Min­is­ter of Health Ter­rence Deyals­ingh MP.

The fol­low­ing is the bul­letin is­sued by the Met Ser­vice to 06:00 am, to­day, cov­er­ing the pe­ri­od: to­day un­til mid­night…

On the day St George’s Col­lege teach­ers gave the school’s ad­min­is­tra­tion a dead­line to get its act in or­der con­cern­ing in­fra­struc­tur­al con­cerns, a fresh is­sue came flood­ing in, prompt­ing the ed­u­ca­tors to con­sid­er in­dus­tri­al ac­tion to­day.

Da­ta ob­tained from the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice is point­ing to an in­crease in re­port­ed preg­nan­cies among mi­nors over the last ten years, with the fig­ures ris­ing from 46 in 2015 to 176 last year.

Health Min­is­ter Ter­rence Deyals­ingh says “he’s fine” af­ter two men robbed him of his gold be­ra bracelet at gun­point in his con­stituen­cy of St Joseph yes­ter­day af­ter­noon.

In­dus­tri­al Court Pres­i­dent Heather Seale has ex­pressed con­cern about the coun­try’s crime sit­u­a­tion which she said is se­vere­ly im­pact­ing the busi­ness sec­tor by dis­rupt­ing the way com­pa­nies op­er­ate. Seale said crime has led to work­ers be­ing tardy for work of­ten lead­ing to dis­ci­pli­nary ac­tion.

Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty, Kei­th Scot­land, says both he and Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher must step up their ef­forts to tack­le the ris­ing mur­der rate and oth­er se­ri­ous crimes.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert says his min­istry is work­ing on an on­line so­lu­tion to as­sist prop­er­ty tax pay­ments which will be iden­ti­cal to bank ac­count trans­fer pay­ments, as is done for WASA and T&TEC bills.

Trinidad and To­ba­go has been laud­ed as an ide­al en­vi­ron­ment for the con­tin­ued pro­mo­tion and growth of Chi­nese busi­ness­es.

UNC deputy po­lit­i­cal leader Dr Roodal Mooni­lal wants to know how much the con­trac­tor on the HDC’s failed Tre­strail De­vel­op­ment hous­ing project has been paid so far.

Ch­agua­nas West MP Di­nesh Ram­bal­ly has made it clear that he has no in­ten­tion of mend­ing his re­la­tion­ship with UNC leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, as­sert­ing that he and four oth­er so-called dis­si­dents have been side­lined.

For­mer Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) pres­i­dent Wat­son Duke and PSA mem­ber Oral Saun­ders are call­ing for im­me­di­ate elec­tions and a lead­er­ship change, as dis­sat­is­fac­tion with the union’s cur­rent ad­min­is­tra­tion grows.