While not di­rect­ly re­spond­ing to a re­ject­ed mo­tion brought by two for­mer MPs, Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) po­lit­i­cal leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar claimed yes­ter­day that there were some who want­ed to re­turn to a sys­tem with­in the par­ty where the “big boys” treat­ed the mem­ber­ship like sheep.

Sup­port­ers of the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) had a heat­ed ex­change over po­lit­i­cal leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar yes­ter­day at the par­ty’s con­ven­tion in Cou­va.

Pres­i­dent of the Agri­cul­tur­al So­ci­ety of T&T (ASTT) Dar­ryl Ram­per­sad is con­cerned about a re­cent spate of rob­beries and at­tacks against Tu­rure Road farm­ers.

The me­dia fra­ter­ni­ty is has been plunged in­to mourn­ing for the sec­ond time this month with the sud­den death of se­nior news­pa­per pho­tog­ra­ph­er Sureash Cholai. He passed away yes­ter­day morn­ing at the age of 59, from an ap­par­ent heart at­tack.

A con­sti­tu­tion­al mo­tion by a prison of­fi­cer who claims his right to wear a beard in keep­ing with his re­li­gious be­liefs has been in­fringed comes up for hear­ing in the High Court to­day.

That has be­come the com­mon re­sponse on so­cial me­dia from mem­bers of the pub­lic to po­lice-in­volved killings.

With ca­lyp­so tents now in full swing, a vet­er­an ca­lyp­son­ian is claim­ing her con­tro­ver­sial 2023 com­po­si­tion, Po­lit­i­cal Ceme­tery, is be­ing cen­sored by a ca­lyp­so tent.

Al­though he has pro­mot­ed his 40th-an­niver­sary con­cert on Car­ni­val Fri­day, One Show—The Meet­ing Place, as a “one show on­ly” event, so­ca mega-star Machel Mon­tano has hint­ed that fans may be treat­ed to “a few show-lets” and “show-ups” dur­ing the Car­ni­val sea­son. 

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the death of a 28-year-old man in Sec­ond Cale­do­nia Mor­vant this morn­ing. He's been iden­ti­fied as Nkosi Lewis from Pasea Street Tu­na­puna. Po­lice say around 10:25 this morn­ing of­fi­cers re­spond­ed to re­ports of loud ex­plo­sions com­ing from a small street. 

Vet­er­an pho­tog­ra­ph­er Sureash Cholai, who'd worked for Trinidad News­day since 2003, died sud­den­ly this morn­ing, News­day's for­mer Ed­i­tor-in-Chief Judy Ray­mond and sev­er­al of his col­leagues con­firmed.  

Ro­tary Club To­ba­go part­nered with In­ter­na­tion­al NGO Chair the Love to dis­trib­ute 40 wheel­chairs to mem­bers of the pub­lic.  

De­spite ad­ver­tis­ing his 40-year an­niver­sary con­cert (One Show - The Meet­ing Place) on Car­ni­val Fri­day as a "one show on­ly" event, so­ca mega-star Machel Mon­tano has hint­ed that fans may be treat­ed to "a few show-lets" and "show-ups" dur­ing the 2023 Car­ni­val sea­son.