Cur­rent Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Laven­tille East/ Mor­vant, Adri­an Leonce MP, has re­vealed that per­son­al is­sues af­fect­ing him and his fam­i­ly caused his with­draw­al from yes­ter­day's screen­ing of can­di­dates for the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM).

South Ko­re­an Pres­i­dent Yoon Suk Yeol de­clared an “emer­gency mar­tial law,” Tues­day ac­cus­ing the coun­try’s op­po­si­tion of con­trol­ling the par­lia­ment, sym­pa­thiz­ing with North Ko­rea and par­a­lyz­ing the gov­ern­ment with an­ti-state ac­tiv­i­ties.

For the 24th con­sec­u­tive year, busi­ness­man Wayne Ali has trans­formed his home in St Joseph Vil­lage, San Fer­nan­do, in­to “San­ta’s Won­der­land.”

Port-of-Spain al­der­man and at­tor­ney Ka­reem Mar­celle has been cho­sen by the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) to be its Laven­tille West can­di­date in the next gen­er­al elec­tion.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment sup­port­ers yes­ter­day chas­tised the Prime Min­is­ter’s de­ci­sion to agree to the Salary Re­view Com­mis­sion’s rec­om­men­da­tion of a pay hike for him­self and oth­er top pub­lic of­fi­cials. They ex­pressed the view even as they gath­ered out­side Bal­isi­er House for the screen­ing of more po­ten­tial can­di­dates for the up­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tion.

Es­tranged Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) Cu­mu­to-Man­zanil­la MP Dr Rai Rag­bir is await­ing word on the pasty’s screen­ing for his con­stituen­cy, and his col­league, Ch­agua­nas West MP Di­nesh Ram­bal­ly, says when he spoke out on thorny is­sues in the par­ty, he (Ram­bal­ly) knew ful­ly well that it may be at the ex­pense of any fu­ture con­sid­er­a­tion of re-se­lec­tion.

Ch­agua­nas West MP Di­nesh Ram­bal­ly is now claim­ing he is be­ing threat­ened by crim­i­nals who are ex­tort­ing busi­ness­es in Cen­tral Trinidad be­cause he is high­light­ing those is­sues.

A High Court judge has again ex­pressed his con­cern that er­rant po­lice of­fi­cers are not be­ing held ac­count­able for neg­li­gent be­hav­iour while tax­pay­ers con­tin­ue to pay thou­sands of dol­lars in lit­i­ga­tion.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the sud­den death of a four-month-old ba­by boy in Cou­va on Sun­day morn­ing.

Res­i­dents of Cot­ton Hill Road, Gas­par­il­lo took mat­ters in­to their own hands af­ter heavy rains trig­gered a ma­jor land­slip along the ma­jor ac­cess road, leav­ing the al­ready di­lap­i­dat­ed road­way com­plete­ly im­pass­able.

Econ­o­mist Dr In­dera Sage­wan says while she be­lieves the prime min­is­ter of a coun­try should not be earn­ing less than the CEO of a com­pa­ny, it is not the right time for Dr Kei­th Row­ley to ac­cept a pay in­crease.

The Med­ical Pro­fes­sion­als As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (MPATT) plans to meet with pub­lic-sec­tor doc­tors this week, in­clud­ing the North­west Doc­tors’ As­so­ci­a­tion (NW­DA).