The body which washed ashore at Hope, To­ba­go, on Tues­day has been iden­ti­fied as that of Trinidad res­i­dent Sta­cy Sama­roo.

Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath says while progress has been made in re­duc­ing dis­rup­tions out­side the class­room, trou­bling new da­ta shows be­hav­iour­al is­sues are in­creas­ing­ly oc­cur­ring dur­ing in­struc­tion­al time.

Po­lit­i­cal bac­cha­nal erupt­ed at the Siparia Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion yes­ter­day, af­ter Deputy May­or Shankar Teelucks­ingh was es­cort­ed out of the cham­ber by po­lice dur­ing a Pub­lic Health Com­mit­tee meet­ing.

Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) lec­tur­er and vlog­ger Rho­da Bharath says she is go­ing to be “savvy” in her so­cial me­dia posts as the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tion al­lows for those pre­sum­ably caus­ing pub­lic dis­cord to be de­tained.

Res­i­dents of sev­er­al com­mu­ni­ties con­sid­ered “high-crime” ar­eas have ex­pressed mixed views on whether the lat­est State of Emer­gency (SoE) will pro­duce any mean­ing­ful re­sults.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice car­ried out 95 op­er­a­tions on the first day of the State of Emer­gency (SoE), which be­gan on Tues­day, re­sult­ing in 18 ar­rests and the seizure of three firearms.

Of­fi­cers from a spe­cialised unit of the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice yes­ter­day shot and killed a man who was out on bail for mur­der.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les says the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) will host a pub­lic meet­ing in Tu­na­puna to­mor­row to ed­u­cate cit­i­zens about how their con­sti­tu­tion­al rights will be af­fect­ed un­der the new­ly de­clared State of Emer­gency (SoE).

Pa­tri­ot­ic Front leader Mick­ela Pan­day is warn­ing that Trinidad and To­ba­go risks weak­en­ing con­sti­tu­tion­al pro­tec­tions if emer­gency pow­ers are re­peat­ed­ly used as the pri­ma­ry re­sponse to crime.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s trade union move­ment is clos­ing ranks on the Gov­ern­ment’s lat­est de­c­la­ra­tion of a State of Emer­gency (SoE), warn­ing that while crime must be con­front­ed de­ci­sive­ly, emer­gency pow­ers can­not sub­sti­tute for a co­her­ent na­tion­al crime strat­e­gy nor be al­lowed to erode work­ers’ con­sti­tu­tion­al rights.

WASH­ING­TON—Trinidad and To­ba­go Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is among 12 world lead­ers con­firmed to at­tend Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s Shield of the Amer­i­c­as Sum­mit in the city of Do­ral over the week­end, the White House con­firmed yes­ter­day.

Trinidad and Toba­go na­tion­als liv­ing in the Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates (UAE) ad­mit­ted yes­ter­day that apart from the widen­ing Gulf con­flict in­volv­ing the Unit­ed States, Is­rael and Iran, they were al­so be­ing trau­ma­tised by in­sen­si­tive com­ments be­ing made by in­di­vid­u­als on so­cial me­dia.