While min­is­ters re­spon­si­ble for na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty re­mained pub­licly silent on the mur­der of 23-month-old Aki­ni Kafi yes­ter­day, For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers said the Gov­ern­ment stands ready to sup­port the griev­ing fam­i­ly and in­sist­ed its an­ti-crime strat­e­gy will soon be­gin bear­ing fruit.

Op­po­si­tion Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Port-of-Spain North/St Ann’s West, Stu­art Young, is call­ing for the im­me­di­ate res­ig­na­tions of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der and De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge, fol­low­ing a triple killing in Bel­mont yes­ter­day that claimed the life of a 23-month-old child and two men.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) deputy po­lit­i­cal leader San­jiv Bood­hu has con­demned Gov­ern­ment Sen­a­tor Phillip Alexan­der, for sug­gest­ing that the 23-month-old child killed in Bel­mont would still be alive had the pro­posed Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions (ZOSO) leg­is­la­tion been in force.

The killing of a 23-month-old child in Bel­mont yes­ter­day has raised fresh con­cerns about ris­ing vi­o­lence and the risk of so­ci­ety be­com­ing de­sen­si­tised to re­peat­ed killings.

Sev­enth-day Ad­ven­tist pas­tor and for­mer Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion mem­ber Clive Dot­tin is call­ing for every sec­tor of so­ci­ety to take re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for tack­ling crime and cor­rup­tion.

Near­ly a month af­ter sev­en-year-old An­gel­i­ca Jo­gie was killed in a jet ski col­li­sion at To­ba­go’s Pi­geon Point Her­itage Park, her griev­ing fa­ther says his fam­i­ly feels jus­tice is slip­ping fur­ther away as po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue with­out charges be­ing laid.

To­ba­go East MP David Thomas says he is not sur­prised by Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les’ crit­i­cism of To­ba­go’s par­lia­men­tar­i­ans.

Five Tran­quil­li­ty Gov­ern­ment Sec­ondary stu­dents have been sus­pend­ed fol­low­ing the as­sault of Port-of-Spain City Cor­po­ra­tion chair­man and al­der­man Wayne Grif­fith, which oc­curred dur­ing an in­ci­dent along Dun­don­ald Street, Port-of-Spain, on Mon­day.

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro has is­sued a strong warn­ing to vi­o­lent home in­vaders, stat­ing that of­fi­cers will “de­fend them­selves and the cit­i­zens” fol­low­ing a po­lice op­er­a­tion in Mara­bel­la that end­ed with one sus­pect be­ing fa­tal­ly shot and two oth­ers ar­rest­ed.

A 61-year-old busi­ness­woman was beat­en and robbed dur­ing an ear­ly morn­ing hold-up at her mi­ni mart in Pe­nal yes­ter­day.

For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers says Trinidad and To­ba­go is more con­cerned with the sub­stance of diplo­mat­ic en­gage­ment with Venezuela than with the cloth­ing or jew­ellery worn by act­ing Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez.

A man charged un­der the new Home In­va­sion Act has been grant­ed bail in the sum of $200,000 with strict con­di­tions af­ter ap­pear­ing be­fore the High Court Crim­i­nal Di­vi­sion in south Trinidad.