Sean Douglas

VIVEK CHARRAN, Confederation of Regional Business Chambers head, hopes Police Commissioner Erla Harewood-Christopher can streamline the granting of firearm user licences (FULs) and curb gangs’ use of CCTV cameras for criminal pursuits, he told Newsday on Tuesday.

VIVEK CHARRAN, Confederation of Regional Business Chambers head, hopes Police Commissioner Erla Harewood-Christopher can streamline the granting of firearm user licences (FULs) and curb gangs’ use of CCTV cameras for criminal pursuits, he told Newsday on May 14.

PANNISTS and singers need help to showcase their music abroad, heard Parliament's Joint Select Committee (JSC) on Foreign Affairs chaired by Independent Senator Dr Maria Dillon-Remy on Wednesday at the Cabildo Building in Port of Spain.

ENERGY Minister Stuart Young said the search for the culprits in the February 7 oil spill in Tobago waters has reached as far as Panama and Africa, replying to a listed question by Naparima MP Rodney Charles in the House of Representatives on May 13.

ACTING Prime Minister Colm Imbert on Thursday said the probe into the imbroglio over the submission of the public accounts to Parliament would not affect the person of Auditor General Jaiwantie Ramdass. He was addressing a post-Cabinet briefing at Whitehall, Port of Spain.

ACTING Prime Minister Colm Imbert said on May 16 that he now expected an improvement in policing as Commissioner of Police (CoP) Erla Harewood-Christopher takes up a second one-year extension of her service, granted by Cabinet, further to her appointment by the Police Service Commission (PSC).

WILL this country's tourism stakeholders reap sufficient benefits from the International Cricket Council (ICC) T20 World Cup, one member of the Parliament's Joint Select Committee (JSC) on Foreign Affairs asked at a sitting on May 15. The event will be held in the Caribbean and United States from June 1-29,

ATTORNEY GENERAL Reginald Armour on Friday called for more positivity so as to move the country forward, citing improvements in TT's system of justice that had led to quicker trials. He asked for broader confidence in a court case which took just months – instead of years – under legal changes to eliminate preliminary inquiries.

OPPOSITION Senator Jayanti Lutchmedial-Ramdial on Friday, May 17, warned that a row between two public agencies over the delay in prosecuting the decade-old Dana Seetahal murder case could end up denting the public's confidence in TT's system of justice.

THE Senate passed a bill piloted on Friday by Attorney General Reginald Armour which reclassifies the geographical designation of TT's law courts, the Miscellaneous Provisions (Administration of Justice) Bill 2023.