Three Independent Senators are calling for a closer review of the laws on child marriages.

Independent Senator Helen Drayton is calling on Government to bring the bill to repeal the act which discriminates against gender and sex by conscience votes.

Government has invested $112 million in the first phase of a road network in Penal and it is reason for celebration in the community, Works and Infrastructure Minister Jack Warner told residents of Penal and environs yesterday.

SHOULD parents really be held criminally liable under the law for the crimes of their children, asked Opposition Senator Fitzgerald Hinds in yesterday’s continuation of the Senate debate on the Children’s Bill 2012?

UP TO yesterday, there were no resignations from State boards of persons who are members of the Movement for Social Justice (MSJ), two days after MSJ leader David Abdulah announced the pullback of MSJ members on State boards to show the party’s concern over governance issues in State institutions.

THE Oilfields Workers Trade Union (OWTU) yesterday expressed solidarity on the stance taken by the Movement for Social Justice (MSJ) — a member of the five-party People’s Partnership coalition government — to not attend tonight’s second anniversary rally of the partnership.

CHANGES to the Secondary Entrance Assessment (SEA) exam could disadvantage public primary schools in relation to private schools, warned Port-of-Spain North/St Ann’s West MP Patricia Mc Intosh.

TWO PNM councillors yesterday urged more funding from the Government to upkeep recreational grounds, at a media briefing at Balisier House. Councillor Terry Rondon of the Sangre Grande Regional Corporation and Councillor Franz “De Lamo” Lambkin of the San Juan/Laventille Regional Corporation each made a plug for better funding of local government.