A Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) man­ag­er has called for an in­de­pen­dent in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to al­le­ga­tions that se­nior of­fi­cials at­tempt­ed to in­flu­ence him to ma­nip­u­late his in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to an em­ploy­ee, ac­cused of al­low­ing an unau­tho­rised per­son to use a com­pa­ny ve­hi­cle.
Lawyers rep­re­sent­ing Lancelot Leza­ma made the call in a le­gal let­ter sent last Fri­day, to re­cent­ly ap­point­ed WASA chair­man Ravin­dra Nan­ga and its chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer Sher­land Shep­pard.

Twen­ty-sev­en-year-old bak­er Yeaseal Fields of Boss Lane, En­ter­prise, was ar­rest­ed has been charged with pos­ses­sion of a firearm and am­mu­ni­tion. 

Min­is­ter of Ed­u­ca­tion Dr Nyan Gads­by-Dol­ly and Lisa Mor­ris have ex­tend­ed their con­do­lences to the fam­i­ly and friends of three chil­dren who died in a house fire ear­li­er to­day. The fol­low­ing is a press re­lease from the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion:

The Min­istry of Health has record­ed 4 ad­di­tion­al COVID re­lat­ed deaths. This brings the to­tal num­ber of deaths to 1043. There are cur­rent­ly 309 pa­tients in the hos­pi­tal. The min­istry has al­so record­ed 109 new COVID cas­es in the last 24 hours, bring­ing the to­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es to 5894.

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Gary Grif­fith says there is no hostage sit­u­a­tion at the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal. The fol­low­ing is a press re­lease from the TTPS:

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice is seek­ing the pub­lic’s as­sis­tance in lo­cat­ing 13-year-old, Tama­ra Al­fon­so. Tama­ra, of East­ern Main Road, Man­zanil­la, was last seen on Ju­ly 24th. She was re­port­ed miss­ing on Ju­ly 25th. Tama­ra is of African de­scent with a slim build and dark nat­ur­al hair. She is brown in com­plex­ion, ap­prox­i­mate­ly 5 feet 4 inch­es tall, with a birth­mark un­der her arm and a burn scar on her nose.

Show­ers and thun­der­storms as­so­ci­at­ed with the pas­sage of a trop­i­cal wave has trig­gered street and flash flood­ing across north­west­ern Trinidad on Mon­day af­ter­noon.

Po­lice are look­ing for six men who in­vad­ed a house in Ca­roni, held hostage four fam­i­ly mem­bers in­clud­ing a 72-year-old man and a 66-year-old woman, and es­caped with $.8 mil­lion in loot on Sun­day morn­ing.

Six more peo­ple have been ar­rest­ed over the past 24 hours for breach­ing the cur­few stip­u­lat­ed un­der the cur­rent Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est COVID Reg­u­la­tions en­force­ment up­date from the Po­lice Ser­vice.

A 17-year-old youth of Up­per Farm Road, Rich­plain, Diego Mar­tin, was ar­rest­ed yes­ter­day dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in the West­ern Di­vi­sion. He was sub­se­quent­ly charged for pos­ses­sion of a firearm and am­mu­ni­tion. He is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear at the Chil­dren’s Court to­day.

Trinidad and To­ba­go Se­cu­ri­ties and Ex­change Com­mis­sion (“TTSEC”) will launch a new mo­bile ap­pli­ca­tion to the pub­lic on Wednes­day 4th Au­gust, 2021, aimed at im­prov­ing the ease with which in­vestors can sub­mit com­plaints to the TTSEC and mem­bers of the pub­lic can sub­mit a tip or re­port a scam.

Pres­i­dent Paula-Mae Weekes has is­sued a call for a more per­ma­nent memo­r­i­al of the 1990 at­tempt­ed coup, apart from wreath-lay­ing cer­e­monies, to en­sure the peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go nev­er for­get this “dark chap­ter” of this coun­try's his­to­ry.