(Trinidad Express) NATIONAL Security Minister Emmanuel George yesterday called an emergency meeting with the heads of the country’s protective services in the wake of a dozen murders being committed in less than 72 hours.

The meeting was chaired by George and included Police Commissioner Stephen Williams, Chief of Defence Staff Major General Kenrick Maharaj, Commanding Officer of the Trinidad and Tobago Regiment Colonel Rodney Smart and Deputy Police Commissioner Mervyn Richardson.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC - The state of information and communication technologies will be examined in the by regional officials at a forum to be held here August 7-8. The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in collaboration with the Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU) has organized the Caribbean ICT Ministers’ Forum on Leveraging ICT for Development in the Caribbean to be held at the Hyatt Regency in Port of Spain. This stakeholder meeting, targets Ministers responsible for telecommunications/ICT, senior Government officials, and regional organizations.

(Trinidad Express) In a complete departure from practice, President Anthony Carmona has changed four of his senators in mid-term, a move that is unpre¬cedented in Trinidad and Tobago’s post-Republican history. Traditionally, presidents have changed independent senators at the end of the life of a Parliament, which comes with the calling of a general election. Yesterday, however, the President’s office announced that Carmona had revoked the appointment of four senators—Corinne Baptiste-McKnight, James Armstrong, Prof Harold Ramkissoon and Dr Lennox St Bernard.

(Trinidad Express) The country’s largest insurance company is about to become potentially one of the State’s most lucrative and far-reaching assets. Cabinet has approved the transfer of about $8 billion worth of insurance giant’s CLICO’s pro¬fitable business to a new company called Atrius which will be 100 per cent owned by the State, sources close to the transfer decision confirmed to the Express yesterday.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Austin “Jack” Warner, the former president of the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) says he is taking legal action against prominent Barbadian jurist, Sir David Simmons over the contents of a report that had been damning of him. Sir David had chaired the CONCACAF Ethics Committee that reported Warner as being fraudulent in his management of the football grouping as well as the ownership of the Centre of Excellence here.