Le­gal Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sad­dam Ho­sein is ac­cus­ing the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment of “cre­at­ing mis­chief” re­gard­ing the can­cel­la­tion of the In­de­pen­dence Day Pa­rade. He claims the Op­po­si­tion is look­ing for a hid­den mo­tive be­hind the de­ci­sion that sim­ply does not ex­ist.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Blind Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion (TTB­WA) has praised the gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to ban noisy fire­works on In­de­pen­dence Day, de­scrib­ing it as a cru­cial step to­ward pro­tect­ing the rights and dig­ni­ty of blind and vi­su­al­ly im­paired cit­i­zens.

Fish­er­men and Friends of the Sea (FFOS) is urg­ing the Prime Min­is­ter to redi­rect the more than $2 mil­lion saved from the can­cel­la­tion of In­de­pen­dence Day cel­e­bra­tions to as­sist pig farm­ers who have been se­vere­ly af­fect­ed by the out­break of Porcine Re­pro­duc­tive and Res­pi­ra­to­ry Syn­drome (PRRS).

Cit­i­zens Against Noise Pol­lu­tion Trinidad and To­ba­go (CANPTT) has wel­comed the Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion not to have the state-spon­sored fire­works dis­play for In­de­pen­dence Day this year.

Yung Bred­da (Akhen­aton Lewis) has re­spond­ed to crit­i­cism from the Grena­di­an pub­lic over the ab­sence of the coun­try’s flag in a col­lec­tion of Caribbean flags fea­tured in the mu­sic video for his hit song, The Great­est Bend Over, fea­tur­ing US R&B/pop star Chloe Bai­ley and Ghana­ian singer Moliy.

Mul­ti­ple groups, com­prised of for­mer pa­tients, a for­mer chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer, and oth­er staff, are call­ing for gov­ern­ment in­ter­ven­tion at Re­birth House, the coun­try’s longest-run­ning drug re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion cen­tre.

There is lit­tle progress to re­port just over a month af­ter a 12-mem­ber com­mit­tee was es­tab­lished to de­vel­op a strat­e­gy for the Pointe-a-Pierre re­fin­ery’s re­ac­ti­va­tion.

While most peo­ple across Trinidad com­plained about the swel­ter­ing heat yes­ter­day, sev­er­al streets in down­town Port-of-Spain were flood­ed af­ter per­sis­tent rain­fall. Flood­ing was ob­served in the area op­po­site the Trinidad and To­ba­go Fire Ser­vice Head­quar­ters, en­com­pass­ing Scott-Bushe, Sackville, and Lon­don Streets, as well as one of the east­bound lanes of Wright­son Road. This re­sult­ed in a tem­po­rary build-up of traf­fic along that route. South Quay was al­so flood­ed and im­pass­able from Broad­way to George Street at one point. This is a reg­u­lar oc­cur­rence af­ter heavy rain­fall in the cap­i­tal and sig­nif­i­cant­ly im­pacts cit­i­zens tra­vers­ing City Gate in par­tic­u­lar.

Min­is­ter of Le­gal Af­fairs Sad­dam Ho­sein is urg­ing the Op­po­si­tion to stop “play­ing pol­i­tics with crime,” ac­cus­ing it of stok­ing fear over the pro­posed stand-your-ground leg­is­la­tion.

For 25 ag­o­nis­ing days, the fam­i­ly of Or­toire fish­er­man Theodore “Beast” Gan­pat has wait­ed, feared, and prayed for his safe re­turn. The 68-year-old went miss­ing on Ju­ly 23, af­ter leav­ing his home. Since then, the trail has gone cold.

An 18-year-old Clax­ton Bay man is in crit­i­cal con­di­tion af­ter he was stabbed by a stranger dur­ing a con­fronta­tion at his home ear­ly on Sat­ur­day morn­ing.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the theft of a quan­ti­ty of cash from an el­der­ly woman ear­ly on Sat­ur­day morn­ing in Cunu­pia.