NA­TO and Ukraine will hold emer­gency talks Tues­day af­ter Rus­sia at­tacked a cen­tral city with an ex­per­i­men­tal, hy­per­son­ic bal­lis­tic mis­sile that es­ca­lat­ed the near­ly 33-month-old war.

The five new­ly ap­point­ed mem­bers of the Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PolSC) re­ceived their in­stru­ments of ap­point­ment to­day.

The at­tor­ney for Han­nah Mathu­ra's fa­ther, An­drew, says she will ap­ply for bail for her client in the com­ing weeks, as his health con­tin­ues to de­te­ri­o­rate in prison.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, Amaya Tay­lor was at a shop at the cor­ner of Prince and George streets around 11:30 am on Thurs­day, when gun shots were heard.

The M.V. Cabo Star is not sched­uled to op­er­ate on Sat­ur­day 23 and Sun­day 24 No­vem­ber 2024, due to planned main­te­nance works, ac­cord­ing to an ad­vi­so­ry from the Trinidad and To­ba­go In­ter-Is­land Trans­porta­tion Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (TTIT).

Po­lice have ar­rest­ed four men from San Juan who are sus­pect­ed of be­ing in­volved in a dar­ing armed rob­bery at a su­per­mar­ket lo­cat­ed at the cor­ner of William Street and Lopinot Road in Arou­ca, on Thurs­day.

Yas­min Eid coughs and cov­ers her face, cook­ing a small pot of lentils over a fire fed with twigs and scrap pa­per in the tent she shares with her hus­band and four young daugh­ters in the Gaza Strip.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has an­nounced that a Caribbean-wide gangs data­base will soon be im­ple­ment­ed, along with the Cari­com Ar­rest War­rant Bill aimed at en­sur­ing there are no safe har­bours for crim­i­nals in any part of the re­gion. 

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher is re­view­ing a pre­lim­i­nary re­port on the dis­missal of cor­rup­tion charges against sev­en po­lice of­fi­cers, vow­ing swift ac­tion as pub­lic out­cry mounts over what many have de­scribed as a sys­temic fail­ure in law en­force­ment and the jus­tice sys­tem.

The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI), St Au­gus­tine Cam­pus faces a com­plete shut­down to­day as the West In­dies Group of Uni­ver­si­ty Teach­ers (WIGUT) in­ten­si­fies its protest.

For­mer CL Fi­nan­cial ex­ec­u­tive An­dre Mon­teil has lost his fi­nal ap­peal be­fore the Privy Coun­cil over a dis­put­ed in­come tax as­sess­ment ex­ceed­ing $20 mil­lion.

Hours af­ter he was jolt­ed out of his sleep by in­trud­ers in his home, beat­en, robbed and kid­napped, 69-year-old Win­ston Thomas was found dead in his car along the busy Sir Solomon Ho­choy High­way.