A 33-year-old man from Bar­rack­pore, who was sen­tenced to hang for the bru­tal mur­ders of his es­tranged com­mon-law wife and their 14-month-old daugh­ter, has ap­pealed.

Siparia May­or Dood­nath Mayrhoo says plans for a J’Ou­vert cel­e­bra­tion and cul­tur­al ex­trav­a­gan­za to mark the bor­ough’s an­niver­sary cel­e­bra­tions will pro­ceed de­spite ob­jec­tions from PNM coun­cil­lors and a UNC al­der­man over fund­ing for mu­sic trucks and a band.

For­mer prime min­is­ter and Op­po­si­tion MP Stu­art Young has fol­lowed through on a promise made in Par­lia­ment by for­mal­ly writ­ing Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro, re­quest­ing po­lice in­ter­view De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge over state­ments link­ing two re­cent dead­ly shoot­ings.

Rel­a­tives of two-year-old An­ge­lo To­bias be­came alarmed on Mon­day night af­ter re­al­is­ing the child was miss­ing from a home along Good­wood Main Road.

Hun­dreds of peo­ple have fled their homes af­ter crim­i­nal gangs be­gan fight­ing with each oth­er over the last week­end, al­so forc­ing the clo­sure of hos­pi­tals in the cap­i­tal, Port-au-Prince.

Se­nior po­lice of­fi­cers in­ves­ti­gat­ing the Bel­mont triple mur­der that saw a 23-month-old tod­dler killed say the killing is not linked to the quadru­ple mur­der three weeks ago in Mor­vant that saw an­oth­er child mur­dered.

Ar­rive Alive pres­i­dent Sharon In­gle­field is call­ing on the Min­istry of Health to pro­vide da­ta on the pos­si­ble link­ages be­tween road fa­tal­i­ties and the men­tal psy­che of the cit­i­zen­ry.

Ten days af­ter trades­man At­i­ba Shal­low was gunned down in Mt D’Or, his griev­ing rel­a­tives are de­mand­ing ur­gent re­forms to what they de­scribe as slow and painful process­es faced by fam­i­lies of mur­der vic­tims, af­ter his au­top­sy was fi­nal­ly com­plet­ed yes­ter­day.

The Of­fice of Pro­cure­ment Reg­u­la­tion (OPR) is in­ves­ti­gat­ing se­ri­ous con­cerns over new­ly formed state en­ter­prise Land­mark­TT Prop­er­ties Lim­it­ed’s han­dling of the pro­cure­ment process for the $100 mil­lion Al­lam­by Res­i­den­tial De­vel­op­ment project in Corinth, San Fer­nan­do.

The En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty (EMA) has in­sist­ed that it fol­lowed “an ex­ten­sive, sci­ence-dri­ven re­view process” be­fore it grant­ed a Cer­tifi­cate of En­vi­ron­men­tal Clear­ance (CEC) to Su­pe­ri­or Ho­tels Lim­it­ed for the con­struc­tion of a 3.5-star ho­tel and re­sort at Rocky Point, To­ba­go.

For­mer In­dus­tri­al Court judge and chair­man of the Es­sen­tial Ser­vices Di­vi­sion, Lawrence Achong, is de­fend­ing his ju­di­cial lega­cy amid ac­cu­sa­tions of po­lit­i­cal bias, warn­ing that the pow­ers and cred­i­bil­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s In­dus­tri­al Court are be­ing sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly weak­ened, while hint­ing at pos­si­ble le­gal ac­tion against trade union lead­ers who pub­licly at­tacked him dur­ing his tenure.

Cari­com lead­ers had a five-hour dis­cus­sion last Fri­day re­gard­ing T&T’s con­cerns on the reap­point­ment Cari­com Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al Dr Car­la Bar­nett, but lead­ers did not agree to re­do their Feb­ru­ary process and de­ci­sion on Bar­nett’s ap­point­ment.