Po­lit­i­cal an­a­lysts have ques­tioned the lead­er­ship of Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les-Robin­son, amid the par­ty’s on­go­ing is­sues in the San Fer­nan­do East con­stituen­cy be­tween MP Bri­an Man­ning and the Pa­tri­cia Alex­is-led ex­ec­u­tive.

While po­lit­i­cal ten­sions con­tin­ue to play out be­tween the San Fer­nan­do East con­stituen­cy ex­ec­u­tive and MP Bri­an Man­ning, res­i­dents say their pri­ma­ry con­cern is not the in­fight­ing but the is­sues af­fect­ing their dai­ly lives.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der says an ar­rest is im­mi­nent in con­nec­tion with a se­ries of bomb threats that trig­gered height­ened se­cu­ri­ty mea­sures across Trinidad and To­ba­go ear­li­er this week.

Thir­teen men linked by au­thor­i­ties to or­gan­ised crime, gang vi­o­lence, firearms and nar­cotics traf­fick­ing and stolen-ve­hi­cle op­er­a­tions have been placed un­der Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) dur­ing the State of Emer­gency (SoE).

The rel­a­tive of slain St Ann’s welder Ja­mal Williams says she does not know who to trust, as the killers in­volved in his mur­der were re­port­ed­ly dressed in cloth­ing bear­ing po­lice in­signia.

For Anya Teeluck­d­har­ry, nine Grade Ones at CAPE are the re­sult of a les­son she learned from watch­ing her par­ents work hard: suc­cess does not come with­out de­ter­mi­na­tion and dis­ci­pline.

For two years, while prepar­ing for his Caribbean Sec­ondary Ed­u­ca­tion Cer­tifi­cate (CSEC) and Caribbean Ad­vanced Pro­fi­cien­cy Ex­am­i­na­tion (CAPE) ex­am­i­na­tions, the Shi­va Boys’ Hin­du Col­lege stu­dent was al­so help­ing his fa­ther, Siew­nar­ine Ram­per­sad, and old­er broth­er Vashist Ram­per­sad care for his bedrid­den grand­fa­ther, 81-year-old De­onath Ram­per­sad. Then, in Au­gust last year, De­onath died.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath says ne­go­ti­a­tions be­tween the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) and the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) have ad­vanced sig­nif­i­cant­ly, with the Gov­ern­ment meet­ing a dead­line set ear­li­er this week to move the out­stand­ing wage pro­pos­als for­ward.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath has de­nied any Gov­ern­ment in­ter­fer­ence in the can­cel­la­tion of a Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Work­ers Union (CWU) protest out­side TSTT House yes­ter­day, in­stead ac­cus­ing CWU Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al Joanne Ogeer of en­gag­ing in base­less spec­u­la­tion over the de­ci­sion.

Sev­er­al cur­rent and for­mer par­lia­men­tar­i­ans named by the In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion for out­stand­ing de­c­la­ra­tions say they have since moved to bring their fil­ings up to date.

The En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty (EMA) says there is noth­ing im­prop­er about the work be­ing car­ried out at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah to ac­com­mo­date this year’s In­de­pen­dence Day pa­rade.

Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Hous­ing Phillip Alexan­der yes­ter­day called on the Op­po­si­tion to ex­plain what he de­scribed as spe­cial treat­ment al­leged­ly giv­en to a con­trac­tor in the award of a mul­ti-mil­lion-dol­lar Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) project.