Po­lice were last night prob­ing the killing of a 27-year-old man who was shot at East Dry Riv­er, Port-of-Spain.

The Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) has chal­lenged Pres­i­dent Paula-Mae Weekes to come clean about the role her of­fice played in the cur­rent im­broglio in­volv­ing Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley, the Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PSC) and for­mer po­lice com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has called on cit­i­zens to ig­nore Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad- Bisses­sar and her team who are de­ter­mined to get rid of At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Faris Al-Rawi who has been go­ing af­ter those in­volved in white-col­lar crime.

The Move­ment for So­cial Jus­tice (MSJ) says that while the Gov­ern­ment and Op­po­si­tion use the col­lapse of the Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PolSC) to score po­lit­i­cal points, the on­ly way for­ward is to col­lab­o­rate to amend Sec­tion 123 of the Con­sti­tu­tion.
Dur­ing the MSJ’s week­ly me­dia con­fer­ence , po­lit­i­cal leader David Ab­du­lah said he dis­agrees with the Op­po­si­tion's at­tempt to have Pres­i­dent Paula-Mae Weekes im­peached and the dis­re­spect of name-call­ing against the high­est of­fice hold­er in T&T.
Ab­du­lah said T&T needs to re­view the role of its ser­vice com­mis­sions, es­pe­cial­ly the PolSC and its over­sight of the Po­lice Ser­vice and CoP. He said a 2006 con­sti­tu­tion­al amend­ment, which for­mer Prime Min­is­ter Patrick Man­ning and Op­po­si­tion Leader Bas­deo Pan­day agreed on, re­formed the PolSC to make it more ef­fec­tive. How­ev­er, he said that amend­ment gave to­tal pow­er of man­ag­ing the Po­lice Ser­vice to the CoP. While this may be nec­es­sary from a man­age­ment per­spec­tive, Ab­du­lah said the need for over­sight of the Po­lice Ser­vice and the CoP was clear. 
“That over­sight can­not re­side with the po­lit­i­cal di­rec­torate be­cause then we get the is­sue of a po­lit­i­cal­ly di­rect­ed T&T Po­lice Ser­vice, which we do not want. That over­sight, quite prop­er­ly, should re­side with the PolSC. But at the mo­ment, the PolSC un­der the Con­sti­tu­tion can on­ly re­view, on an an­nu­al or se­mi-an­nu­al ba­sis, the work of the CoP and the Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice, based up­on re­ports.”
Ab­du­lah said the PolSC could not chal­lenge how a CoP al­lo­cates re­sources, such as set­ting up new units like the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Re­sponse Team and re­cruit­ing mem­bers. There­fore, he says Par­lia­ment needs to re­view the role of the PolSC as an over­sight body and ex­pand this to oth­er com­mis­sions like the Teach­ing Ser­vice Com­mis­sion and Pub­lic Ser­vice Com­mis­sion.
He re­ferred to Pres­i­dent Paula-Mae Weekes’ state­ments in news­pa­pers that there is a need for con­sti­tu­tion­al re­form.

Hours af­ter crit­i­cis­ing Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar for fil­ing a mo­tion un­der Sec­tion 36 of the Con­sti­tu­tion for the es­tab­lish­ment of a tri­bunal to in­ves­ti­gate and po­ten­tial­ly re­move Pres­i­dent Paula-Mae Weekes from of­fice over the po­lice com­mis­sion­er ap­point­ment im­broglio, Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley urged women to stand up and sup­port their fe­male coun­ter­parts in­stead of bring­ing each oth­er down.

The House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives is wait­ing to de­bate the five no­ti­fi­ca­tions of peo­ple nom­i­nat­ed for a new Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PSC) and all five will be dealt with to­geth­er.

Join­ing her to cel­e­brate the mile­stone yes­ter­day, So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices Min­is­ter Don­na Cox was joined by In­spec­tor II of the Di­vi­sion of Age­ing, Crys­tal Fe­lix, Roach’s fam­i­ly and close friends at her Tu­na­puna home.

A re­port said around 9.30 am, Ol­li­v­ere, along with sev­en oth­ers, en­tered the for­est four miles south of his home to hunt.

Trinida­di­an 11-year-old Daniel Ra­jku­mar, 11, re­ceived a Sil­ver Award in the “Queen’s Com­mon­wealth Es­say Com­pe­ti­tion 2021” host­ed by the Roy­al Com­mon­wealth So­ci­ety, Eng­land.

The Min­istry of Health has record­ed 7 ad­di­tion­al COVID re­lat­ed deaths, bring­ing the to­tal num­ber of deaths to 1,600. There are cur­rent­ly 268 pa­tients in the hos­pi­tal. The Min­istry has al­so record­ed 227 new cas­es in the last 24 hours. This brings the to­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es to 4,373.

Plan­ning and De­vel­op­ment Min­is­ter Camille Robin­son-Reg­is an­nounces T&T’s par­tic­i­pa­tion in mul­ti-mil­lion dol­lar glob­al en­vi­ron­men­tal project. De­tails fol­low in this press re­lease from the min­is­ter.

A 28-year-old San Juan man was ar­rest­ed for the pos­ses­sion of a firearm and am­mu­ni­tion, dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise. De­tails fol­low in this press re­lease from the TTPS: