A Belle Vue res­i­dent has called for a per­ma­nent po­lice pres­ence in the St James com­mu­ni­ty, say­ing fears of gang vi­o­lence re­main high fol­low­ing a re­cent shoot­ing near her home.

Is­sues with­in the Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment's (PNM) San Fer­nan­do East con­stituen­cy ap­pear to be near­ing res­o­lu­tion, with par­ty groups set to be­gin in­ter­nal elec­tions on Sun­day, ahead of the elec­tion of a new con­stituen­cy ex­ec­u­tive on Oc­to­ber 15.

De­spite a year of diplo­mat­ic fall­out be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go and Venezuela, in­clud­ing be­ing de­clared per­sona non gra­ta in Cara­cas, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar ap­pears ready to turn a new page with act­ing Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez.

The Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil (NSC) will meet to­day to de­ter­mine the fu­ture of the State of Emer­gency (SoE), which is due to ex­pire on Sep­tem­ber 17, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has con­firmed.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) says it has re­ceived in­for­ma­tion that some peo­ple de­tained un­der Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) dur­ing the State of Emer­gency (SoE) will be­gin to be re­leased in batch­es from to­day.

Miss Trinidad and To­ba­go World Geor­gia-Lee Gill re­turned home on Tues­day to a warm wel­come, af­ter be­ing crowned Miss World Caribbean at the 73rd Miss World pageant in Viet­nam.

Gov­ern­ment is mov­ing ahead with leg­is­la­tion aimed at hold­ing par­ents ac­count­able for the ac­tions of their chil­dren, with Leader of Gov­ern­ment Busi­ness Bar­ry Padarath con­firm­ing that a draft is now be­ing pre­pared.

The To­ba­go teenag­er de­tained in con­nec­tion with the death of his el­der­ly rel­a­tive has been re­leased.

North­east­ern Col­lege has record­ed a sec­ond stu­dent fight with­in days of the open­ing of the new aca­d­e­m­ic year, with two boys be­ing tak­en to the prin­ci­pal’s of­fice yes­ter­day, af­ter they were seen fight­ing on the school com­pound.

Chief Jus­tice Ron­nie Boodoos­ingh has called on ju­di­cial of­fi­cers and court staff to work hard and less from home to make the Ju­di­cia­ry more ef­fi­cient and pro­duc­tive. 

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les have wel­comed Chief Jus­tice Ron­nie Boodoos­ingh’s plans to im­prove the ad­min­is­tra­tion of jus­tice, with both point­ing to the need to ad­dress re­source con­straints, court de­lays and ac­cess to the ju­di­cial sys­tem.

The To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) has de­nied li­a­bil­i­ty in the fa­tal jet ski ac­ci­dent at Pi­geon Point beach, which claimed the life of sev­en-year-old An­gel­i­ca Jo­gie, in­sist­ing re­spon­si­bil­i­ty rests “sole­ly and square­ly” on the jet ski op­er­a­tor.