Three sus­pects were ar­rest­ed and a firearm and quan­ti­ty of am­mu­ni­tion seized by of­fi­cers of the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise con­duct­ed in the Cunu­pia dis­trict on Tues­day.

Three per­sons were ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with mo­tor ve­hi­cle and prae­di­al lar­ce­ny of­fences on Tues­day, dur­ing an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es

A 30-year-old labour­er was shot and killed while ly­ing on his bed at home in Gas­par­il­lo ear­ly this morn­ing.

Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro has claimed that a group of para­mil­i­tary “ter­ror­ists” was in­ter­cept­ed while try­ing to en­ter the coun­try from Trinidad and To­ba­go with a cache of weapons.

An Is­raeli- and U.S.-backed group paused food de­liv­ery at its three dis­tri­b­u­tion sites in the Gaza Strip on Wednes­day af­ter health of­fi­cials said dozens of Pales­tini­ans were killed in a se­ries of shoot­ings near the sites this week.

Vow­ing to en­sure their lat­est ve­hi­cle ac­qui­si­tions will not be al­lowed to fall in­to rack and ru­in as in the past, act­ing Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP), Ju­nior Ben­jamin has as­sured a com­pre­hen­sive sys­tem for the main­te­nance and up­keep of 67 new RAV 4 ve­hi­cles for the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) will be im­ple­ment­ed.

Act­ing Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Ju­nior Ben­jamin has con­firmed that the Fi­nan­cial In­ves­ti­ga­tions Branch (FIB) is prob­ing the source, method, and tim­ing of the US$950,000 pay­ment made to Adid­ja “Vy­bz Kar­tel” Palmer by a lo­cal pro­mot­er to ap­pear at last Sat­ur­day’s One Caribbean Mu­sic Fes­ti­val.

The Op­po­si­tion is not op­posed to sup­port­ing stand-Your-Ground leg­is­la­tion, but on­ly if it is what cit­i­zens want.

Min­is­ter of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Khadi­jah Ameen says, aside from the miss­ing $90,000, there may be even more mon­ey un­ac­count­ed for from the San Fer­nan­do City Cor­po­ra­tion (SFCC).

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is ac­cus­ing Gov­ern­ment of plan­ning ma­jor job cuts across min­istries and State agen­cies.

To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) Mi­nor­i­ty Leader Kelvon Mor­ris is call­ing for a crim­i­nal probe in­to what he de­scribed as “the great­est pro­cure­ment be­tray­al” in the his­to­ry of the THA. He is al­so call­ing for the Health Sec­re­tary to re­sign.

Op­po­si­tion Leader and sole nom­i­nee for the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) lead­er­ship Pen­ne­lope Beck­les re­mains un­fazed by the ap­par­ent lack of sup­port from key par­ty fig­ures, in­clud­ing stal­wart Fer­die Fer­reira and MPs Stu­art Young and Camille Robin­son-Reg­is.