De­spite lin­ger­ing ques­tions over the be­hav­iour of a man who was record­ed walk­ing along the roof of the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal this week, the South-West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (SWRHA) has con­firmed that he was safe­ly re­cov­ered and treat­ed.

A stu­dent from a sec­ondary school in Tu­na­puna was ar­rest­ed by po­lice on Fri­day, af­ter he broke in­to a neigh­bour’s house and stole a quan­ti­ty of al­co­hol and jew­ellery.

CEO of Southex, George Singh, de­scribed Fri­day night’s Chut­ney So­ca Monarch semi­fi­nal as a clear suc­cess, as a large crowd packed Fla­va Vil­lage at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah for the first time in the event’s his­to­ry.

Young voic­es, big con­fi­dence, and plen­ty ca­lyp­so swag­ger filled the Radis­son Ho­tel, Port-of-Spain, yes­ter­day as the Na­tion­al Ju­nior Ca­lyp­so Monarch se­mi-fi­nal struck all the right notes.

The Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Gov­ern­ment of Cu­ba has con­demned a new es­ca­la­tion of mea­sures by the Unit­ed States gov­ern­ment aimed at re­strict­ing fu­el sup­plies to the coun­try.

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP) Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro has no in­ten­tion of step­ping down or bow­ing out – de­spite mount­ing pub­lic calls for him to be re­moved as head of the coun­try’s lead­ing na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty agency.

The cur­rent in­ves­ti­ga­tion con­cern­ing St Au­gus­tine res­i­dent Joshua Sama­roo, who was killed in a po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing, is “one of the most in­tense in­ves­ti­ga­tions” en­gag­ing the po­lice’s at­ten­tion, says Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath says he shares some of the con­cerns raised by Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der re­gard­ing the pub­lic dis­sem­i­na­tion of sen­si­tive ma­te­r­i­al on so­cial me­dia, par­tic­u­lar­ly in light of the re­cent po­lice-in­volved killing of Joshua Sama­roo and the in­jury of his wife, Ka­ia Sealy, in St Au­gus­tine.

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP) Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro says the six-month-long State of Emer­gency (SoE), which ex­pires at mid­night, was “100% ef­fec­tive.”

For­mer po­lice com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith says he will ap­peal a court rul­ing that or­dered he pay re­tired Ap­peal Court judge Stan­ley John near­ly one mil­lion dol­lars, in­clu­sive of le­gal costs.

De­spite her re­cent de­scrip­tion of Cari­com as an un­re­li­able part­ner, com­ments that raised con­cerns about pos­si­ble frac­tures with­in the re­gion­al bloc, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is reaf­firm­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go’s com­mit­ment to the or­gan­i­sa­tion.

As Venezuela be­gins to re­open its en­er­gy in­dus­try to for­eign in­vest­ment, econ­o­mist and po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst Dr Vanus James says T&T’s suc­cess in re­open­ing dis­cus­sions with Venezuela over the Drag­on gas field and oth­er en­er­gy ne­go­ti­a­tions will de­pend on what­ev­er the US gov­ern­ment al­lows it.