Trinida­di­an Judge Mar­garet Price-Find­lay has been ap­point­ed as the Chief Jus­tice of the East­ern Caribbean Supreme Court.

A po­lice of­fi­cer has been ac­quit­ted of as­sault­ing a mo­torist af­ter a mi­nor car ac­ci­dent.

A five-week ban on the use of jet skis in the Buc­coo Reef Ma­rine Park will be lift­ed by the court, but it will not be busi­ness as usu­al for op­er­a­tors.

A 51-year-old Pro­man em­ploy­ee was shot and killed while dri­ving along Rivulet Road, near the Point Lisas In­dus­tri­al Es­tate, yes­ter­day af­ter­noon.

As the Cuban Med­ical Brigade stalls in oth­er parts of the Caribbean, close to 60 Cuban med­ical pro­fes­sion­als are con­tin­u­ing to work in Trinidad and To­ba­go. This was con­firmed by Cuban am­bas­sador to T&T, Gus­ta­vo Daniel Veliz Oli­vares, yes­ter­day. Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe has not re­spond­ed to ques­tions on the mat­ter in re­cent months.

Ahead of the up­com­ing Unit­ed Na­tions Bonn Cli­mate Change Con­fer­ence, small is­land de­vel­op­ing states (SIDS) are de­mand­ing a com­plete over­haul of the glob­al fi­nan­cial ar­chi­tec­ture and a rapid ac­cel­er­a­tion of glob­al emis­sions re­duc­tions.

A Diego Mar­tin woman and her hus­band have both been grant­ed bail af­ter ap­pear­ing in court on charges aris­ing out of an in­ci­dent in Ari­ma dur­ing which a po­lice of­fi­cer ac­ci­den­tal­ly dis­charged her firearm.

A five-week ban on the use of jet skis in the Buc­coo Reef Ma­rine Park will be lift­ed by the court, but it will not be busi­ness as usu­al for op­er­a­tors.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has ac­cused the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) of fu­elling law­less­ness, racial hos­til­i­ty and in­tim­i­da­tion against law en­force­ment and state pros­e­cu­tors.

The Min­istry of Health says the East­ern Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty is man­ag­ing sev­er­al sus­pect­ed and prob­a­ble cas­es of vari­cel­la, com­mon­ly known as chick­en­pox, among health­care work­ers at the San­gre Grande Hos­pi­tal Cam­pus.

As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Curt Si­mon says new reg­u­la­tions un­der the State of Emer­gency pro­hib­it pub­lic protests and demon­stra­tions with­in 500 me­tres of 15 spec­i­fied lo­ca­tions across Trinidad and To­ba­go.

The or­gan­is­er of a protest and her moth­er, who were joint­ly ar­rest­ed by po­lice dur­ing a demon­stra­tion near the of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) on Wednes­day af­ter­noon, have not been ar­rest­ed as of 8:47 am to­day.