The Cit­i­zens Against Noise Pol­lu­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (CANPTT) has ac­knowl­edged the progress made with the Fire­works Reg­u­la­tion Bill now be­fore Par­lia­ment but says the leg­is­la­tion re­mains in­com­plete and un­able to pro­tect cit­i­zens in its cur­rent form.

Pres­i­dent pro tem­pore and Co­or­di­na­tor of the Tran­si­tion Coun­cil, Lau­rent Saint-Cyr, has wel­comed the lat­est batch of Kenyan troops who will re­in­force the Gang Re­pres­sion Force (FRG) in Haiti.

Chief Sec­re­tary and To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP) leader Far­ley Au­gus­tine says he was “sur­prised” by Wat­son Duke’s pub­lic en­dorse­ment of the TPP ahead of the 12 Jan­u­ary THA elec­tion, but he is wel­com­ing the sup­port.

The Gov­ern­ment has or­dered the Uni­ver­si­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go to scrap its Christ­mas and end-of-year events, tight­en­ing con­trols on pub­lic spend­ing as state en­ti­ties, in­clud­ing Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um, move to can­cel their own func­tions.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro says the kid­nap­ping of cou­ple Derek and Clari­bel Tardieu is be­ing treat­ed with the high­est pri­or­i­ty.

A cen­tral man man­aged to es­cape to safe­ty over the week­end, af­ter he was ab­duct­ed by two men he re­port­ed­ly knew.

De­spite re­peat­ed pleas by her rel­a­tives and friends to end an abu­sive re­la­tion­ship, 42-year-old An­gel Lutch­man stayed. That de­ci­sion end­ed in tragedy yes­ter­day.

Mere min­utes af­ter threat­en­ing to set his house on fire on Sun­day, a 40-year-old New Grant man with a his­to­ry of men­tal in­sta­bil­i­ty was burnt to death af­ter his home erupt­ed in flames.

Two men charged with mur­der were dis­charged by the High Court dur­ing a suf­fi­cien­cy hear­ing yes­ter­day, af­ter the State re­fused to ten­der any ev­i­dence to prove the charges against them.

Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots (PDP) po­lit­i­cal leader Wat­son Duke has fi­nal­ly bro­ken months of si­lence on his po­lit­i­cal fu­ture to pub­licly de­clare his sup­port for Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine and the To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP). It is a dra­mat­ic turn for the man who once led the PDP to a his­toric land­slide vic­to­ry, on­ly to watch the par­ty col­lapse af­ter a bit­ter fall­out with Au­gus­tine him­self.

Two po­lit­i­cal an­a­lysts say Wat­son Duke’s sud­den sup­port of the To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP) may not give the par­ty the boost he be­lieves it will. While both agree his en­dorse­ment is sig­nif­i­cant, they warn that the re­al test is not Duke’s words but whether he still has a vot­er base that can in­flu­ence the Jan­u­ary 12 To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly elec­tions.

A young cou­ple ex­changed mar­i­tal vows at Stollmey­er’s Cas­tle yes­ter­day as the Min­istry of Le­gal Af­fairs hand­ed out 36 cer­tifi­cates to new­ly ap­point­ed mar­riage of­fi­cers, mark­ing what the Gov­ern­ment de­scribed as a sig­nif­i­cant step to­ward clear­ing a years-long ad­min­is­tra­tive back­log.