Par­lia­ment yes­ter­day ap­proved Deputy Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er (DCP) Ju­nior Ben­jamin to act as Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er lat­er this month and As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Anand Rame­sar to act as DCP.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath says the Gov­ern­ment is work­ing to meet the re­quire­ments for ac­cess­ing an In­ter-Amer­i­can De­vel­op­ment Bank (IDB) loan to ad­dress the coun­try’s wa­ter is­sues.

No re­open­ing date has been set for the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies’ (UWI) Debe Cam­pus, Min­is­ter of Ter­tiary Ed­u­ca­tion and Skills Train­ing Sen­a­tor Prakash Per­sad says.

The Gov­ern­ment will ac­cord ca­lyp­so icon Dr Slinger “Mighty Spar­row” Fran­cis­co an of­fi­cial state-as­sist­ed fu­ner­al, with Cul­ture and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment Min­is­ter Michelle Ben­jamin al­so an­nounc­ing a na­tion­al trib­ute and oth­er plans to ho­n­our his lega­cy.

De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge has ac­cused busi­ness groups of putting prof­its ahead of the wel­fare of young peo­ple as he de­fend­ed the Gov­ern­ment’s con­tentious move to raise the le­gal ages for al­co­hol, to­bac­co, cannabis and gam­bling.

Po­lice seized ap­prox­i­mate­ly 2.2 kilo­grammes of cannabis dur­ing an an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion in Port-of-Spain on Tues­day.

Four men were ar­rest­ed on Wednes­day in con­nec­tion with the theft of elec­tric­i­ty ca­bles val­ued at $186,000.

Po­lice found a firearm in a drain in Mor­vant on Tues­day night af­ter pur­su­ing a man wear­ing a ski mask.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has launched an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to a video cir­cu­lat­ing on so­cial me­dia which show a man ver­bal­ly and phys­i­cal­ly abus­ing and threat­en­ing a woman in­side a ve­hi­cle.

The Cen­tral Bank of Trinidad and To­ba­go has re­duced its green­house gas emis­sions by 13.8 per cent since 2019, with low­er elec­tric­i­ty use and re­duc­tions in val­ue-chain emis­sions con­tribut­ing to the de­cline.

Psy­chol­o­gist Sarah Sub­han has wel­comed the Gov­ern­ment’s pro­posed in­crease in the le­gal age for the use of al­co­hol and drugs, say­ing the move is sup­port­ed by in­ter­na­tion­al re­search and sci­en­tif­ic ev­i­dence on ado­les­cent brain de­vel­op­ment.

Af­ter los­ing their fa­ther, their home and months of school­ing, two broth­ers are fi­nal­ly get­ting a chance to re­build their lives.