De­spite the ap­proved ex­ten­sion for the State of Emer­gency by an­oth­er three months, Op­po­si­tion MPs are voic­ing con­cerns about its ef­fec­tive­ness, what they con­sid­er to be a lack of ac­count­abil­i­ty, and the Gov­ern­ment’s over­all han­dling of the sit­u­a­tion.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) Diego Mar­tin West con­stituen­cy ex­ec­u­tive has not yet re­ceived any of­fi­cial nom­i­na­tions from the par­ty mem­ber­ship for the seat. How­ev­er, con­stituents are anx­ious to know who are the top con­tenders hop­ing to rep­re­sent their in­ter­ests.

Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Fitzger­ald Hinds has as­sured that both the Car­rera Is­land Con­vict Prison and the Re­mand Prison in Gold­en Grove are suit­able for oc­cu­pa­tion. How­ev­er, he said some as­pects of the pris­ons, which have been iden­ti­fied for re­pair and re­fur­bish­ment are be­ing ad­dressed prompt­ly.

Open­ing the NTA’s San Fer­nan­do West Of­fice at Leroy Cal­liste Street, San Fer­nan­do, yes­ter­day, along with can­di­date for the area Dr Kevin Sar­ran, the par­ty’s po­lit­i­cal leader Gary Grif­fith as­sured he will not en­gage in gut­ter pol­i­tics as he wished prime min­is­ter-des­ig­nate Stu­art Young well.

For­mer PNM mem­ber and MP Karen Nunez-Tesheira is not con­vinced that all is well with­in the walls of the par­ty.

At least six maxi-taxis and mi­ni-bus­es were seized by po­lice as part of en­quiries in­to a car theft ring in Ari­ma yes­ter­day af­ter­noon.

A re­tired fire of­fi­cer has been grant­ed $750,000 bail af­ter ap­pear­ing in court charged with mar­i­jua­na traf­fick­ing.

A se­nior mag­is­trate has ques­tioned why the po­lice chose to charge a man from Bel­mont, ac­cused of pos­ses­sion of high-pow­er am­mu­ni­tion, un­der reg­u­la­tions for the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency as op­posed to tra­di­tion­al leg­is­la­tion that car­ries a high­er penal­ty. 

Nine­teen sus­pects ac­cused in the Ju­ly 2021 as­sas­si­na­tion of Hait­ian Pres­i­dent Jovenel Moïse ar­rived Mon­day at a cour­t­house as de­fense at­tor­neys hoped they would be re­leased, but a judge post­poned their hear­ing once again.

Ja­maica has record­ed 34 mur­ders dur­ing the first 11 days of this year, ac­cord­ing to fig­ures re­leased by the Ja­maica Con­stab­u­lary Force (JCF).

Five firearms have been seized dur­ing po­lice op­er­a­tions across Trinidad and To­ba­go in the past 48 hours.

As Par­lia­ment meets to de­bate the ex­ten­sion of the State of Emer­gency (SOE), chair­man of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce, To­ba­go Di­vi­sion is call­ing for its con­tin­u­a­tion.