With calls for a spe­cial con­ven­tion of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) to set­tle the is­sue of who will be­come its next po­lit­i­cal leader, the par­ty’s con­sti­tu­tion gives the Gen­er­al Coun­cil, which meets to­day, that au­thor­i­ty.

Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Ari­ma Pen­ne­lope Beck­les says her com­mit­ment is to the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment.

Mu­si­cian and so­cial jus­tice ac­tivist Lou Lyons is sat­is­fied with the re­sponse of the South Caribbean Con­fer­ence of Sev­enth-day Ad­ven­tists to him af­ter he was im­pli­cat­ed in the mur­der of spe­cial pros­e­cu­tor Ran­dall Hec­tor af­ter at­tend­ing a church ser­vice.

De­tainees held un­der pre­ven­ta­tive de­ten­tion dur­ing the cur­rent State of Emer­gency now have a clear path­way to chal­lenge their de­ten­tion un­der new­ly es­tab­lished pro­ce­dur­al guide­lines is­sued by the Re­view Tri­bunal. 

The at­tor­ney for Port-of-Spain res­i­dent Calvin Lee, alias Tyson, de­scribed by po­lice as a pri­or­i­ty of­fend­er, says she in­tends to write Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher over con­cerns about his de­ten­tion.

A man of qui­et strength is how mur­der vic­tim Kam­bon Omowale is be­ing re­mem­bered by his son Ki­mani.

Madeira's fam­i­ly has con­firmed that the Trinidad and To­ba­go jour­nal­ist passed away to­day, Jan­u­ary 10 at the Mount Hope Med­ical Com­plex.

Po­lice have ar­rest­ed eight sus­pects, sev­er­al of whom are pri­or­i­ty of­fend­ers, dur­ing op­er­a­tions in the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion and North­ern Di­vi­sion-North yes­ter­day.

The pres­i­dent of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teacher's As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA), Mar­tin Lum Kin, is urg­ing the Ed­u­ca­tion Min­istry to put more mea­sures in place to mon­i­tor cor­doned off ar­eas or aban­doned and con­demned sec­tions in the na­tion’s schools.

West­ern Di­vi­sion Po­lice con­tin­ued have seized a firearm and sev­er­al rounds of am­mu­ni­tion in the West End dis­trict.

Of­fi­cers from the North­ern Di­vi­sion have ar­rest­ed a man and seized a large quan­ti­ty of cannabis dur­ing an ex­er­cise con­duct­ed in the Ari­ma dis­trict yes­ter­day.

The West In­dies Cham­pi­onship 2025 is set to kick off in late Jan­u­ary with three rounds from Jan­u­ary 29 to Feb­ru­ary 15.