Op­po­si­tion Chief Whip Mar­vin Gon­za­les says his con­cerns sur­round­ing the Joshua Sama­roo and Ka­ia Sealy mat­ter are not about the in­de­pen­dence of the Of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP), but about what he de­scribed as a cul­ture of se­cre­cy sur­round­ing pub­lic of­fice.

Ten­sions flared in Port-of-Spain yes­ter­day as a protest de­mand­ing trans­paren­cy in a con­tro­ver­sial po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing end­ed with the ar­rest of the or­gan­is­er and her moth­er fol­low­ing a con­fronta­tion with of­fi­cers.

Mus­lims across Trinidad and To­ba­go joined the glob­al Is­lam­ic com­mu­ni­ty yes­ter­day to cel­e­brate Eid ul-Ad­ha with prayers, char­i­ty and re­flec­tion on faith, grat­i­tude and obe­di­ence to God.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has again tak­en a dig at the po­lice ser­vice over their han­dling of the in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the death and sus­pect­ed mur­der of two-year-old An­ge­lo To­bias-Plaza.

What was sup­posed to be a rou­tine shift end­ed in tragedy in cen­tral Trinidad, af­ter a 20-year-old garbage work­er was crushed by a truck.

Jus­tice Sher­lanne Pierre has asked jet ski op­er­a­tors in To­ba­go to con­sid­er lo­ca­tions out­side Pi­geon Point Her­itage Park to so­lic­it clients and launch their wa­ter­craft.

The San Juan/Laven­tille Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion (SJL­RC) has re­ceived a two-month ex­ten­sion from its land­lord, the Na­tion­al Main­te­nance Train­ing and Se­cu­ri­ty Com­pa­ny Ltd (MTS Plaza), al­low­ing it to re­main at its ad­min­is­tra­tive of­fices in Aranguez.

De­spite protest ac­tion by Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) mem­bers yes­ter­day call­ing on al­der­man Vic­tor Roberts to re­sign af­ter cross­ing the floor to the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), Roberts stood firm, de­clar­ing that he has no in­ten­tion of step­ping down.

Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) chair­man Mar­vin Gon­za­les has sent prayers and re­cov­ery wish­es to Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress Freeport/Chick­land coun­cil­lor Anil Bali­ram, who re­mains in crit­i­cal con­di­tion at the In­ten­sive Care Unit (ICU) of the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal.

A mag­is­trate has grant­ed a pro­tec­tion or­der against a mo­ti­va­tion­al speak­er and life coach, block­ing him from abus­ing a for­mer client with whom he start­ed a per­son­al re­la­tion­ship. 

The Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer (CPO) has been di­rect­ed to dis­close in­for­ma­tion re­lat­ed to a de­ci­sion to deem a uni­ver­si­ty de­gree in­com­pat­i­ble for the pro­mo­tions of forestry work­ers. 

A po­lice of­fi­cer, who is a qual­i­fied at­tor­ney, has se­cured a life­line in his bid to pur­sue a con­sti­tu­tion­al law­suit over be­ing de­nied an ex­emp­tion from the law com­po­nent of pro­mo­tion­al ex­am­i­na­tions.