In­ves­ti­gat­ing of­fi­cers are yet to make a break­through in­to Thurs­day’s blood­bath in the Heights of Gua­napo in Ari­ma, where four chil­dren were killed while asleep at their home.

As many pub­lic of­fi­cials an­tic­i­pate the pomp of to­day’s Na­tion­al Awards cer­e­mo­ny, there was dis­qui­et among judges whom Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo left off her guest list.

The fu­ture of Ni­Quan’s gas-to-liq­uids (GTL) plant lo­cat­ed on the com­pound of moth­balled Petrotrin re­fin­ery at Pointe-a-Pierre is un­cer­tain un­less it can raise mon­ey—to the tune of hun­dreds of mil­lions—to pay off its debts (the most ur­gent be­ing for nat­ur­al gas), and re-en­gage ei­ther the Trinidad and To­ba­go Up­stream Down­stream Com­pa­ny (TTUDEO­CL) or the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC) for an­oth­er con­tract.

De­spite no­tices that the erec­tion of a build­ing should not be com­plet­ed af­ter in­cur­ring sev­er­al breach­es, a new mul­ti­mil­lion-dol­lar three-storey struc­ture has been con­struct­ed on 35 & 37 De Ver­teuil Street in Wood­brook, Port-of-Spain.

Venezue­lan tod­dler Josè Nunez who was shot on Mon­day night by stray bul­lets has been dis­charged from hos­pi­tal and is now home with his par­ents and fam­i­ly.

Three pro­fes­sors are re­cip­i­ents of the coun­try’s high­est award–the Or­der of the Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go (ORTT) this year–Prof Clement Im­bert, Prof John Agard, and Prof Path­manathan Uma­ha­ran.

Res­i­dents of San­gre Grande shared their bud­get wish­list with mem­bers of the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress on Fri­day, with crime, agri­cul­ture and in­fra­struc­ture fea­tur­ing promi­nent­ly among the is­sues res­i­dents high­light­ed.

Two men are fac­ing charges of Lar­ce­ny Ser­vant and House Break­ing and Lar­ce­ny. The men were ar­rest­ed in the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion in sep­a­rate in­ci­dents on Fri­day, the Po­lice Ser­vice has con­firmed.

The Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty is main­tain­ing that Guyana has a right to peace­ful­ly de­vel­op the re­sources of its ter­ri­to­ry.

The T&T Cham­ber is call­ing for col­lab­o­ra­tion and co­op­er­a­tion at the na­tion­al lev­el—an ‘all-hands-on-deck’ alert—to fight crime.

Pres­i­dent of the Joint Trade Union Move­ment, An­cel Ro­get, says the Gov­ern­ment has been de­feat­ed in its war against crime and has left cit­i­zens at the mer­cy of crim­i­nals.

From a White House podi­um in May, U.S. Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Sec­re­tary Ale­jan­dro May­orkas out­lined new le­gal path­ways to the Unit­ed States for Venezue­lans and oth­ers, along with a “very clear” mes­sage for those come il­le­gal­ly.