To­ba­go West MP Sham­fa Cud­joe-Lewis and To­ba­go East MP Ayan­na Web­ster-Roy have laud­ed Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley’s lead­er­ship fol­low­ing his de­ci­sion to bow out of pol­i­tics end­ing his 45-year po­lit­i­cal ca­reer.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher has pledged to bol­ster se­cu­ri­ty for the ju­di­cia­ry fol­low­ing the mur­der of state pros­e­cu­tor Ran­dall Hec­tor, who was gunned down last Tues­day, months af­ter he pros­e­cut­ed a known gang leader.

As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice South/Cen­tral Wayne Mys­tar said yes­ter­day that eight sus­pects linked to car thefts have been ar­rest­ed dur­ing the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE).

A week in­to the State of Emer­gency (SoE), head of the Ex­tor­tion Unit of the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS), As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Richard Smith, says he and his team are go­ing af­ter 14 ex­tor­tion­ists who have been tar­get­ing busi­ness­peo­ple in North and Cen­tral Trinidad.

The rel­a­tives of 15-year-old Beris Joseph, whose body found dumped at Mt Hay on Sat­ur­day, are strug­gling to cope with the or­deal.

Dr Del­mon Dex­ter Bak­er has been ap­point­ed as the new Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer (CEO) of the To­ba­go Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (TRHA). Ac­cord­ing to an in­ter­nal memo leaked to Guardian Me­dia, Dr Bak­er of­fi­cial­ly as­sumed of­fice on Jan­u­ary 3.

A store­room at the ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port site along Store Bay Lo­cal Road was bro­ken in­to be­tween Fri­day evening and Sat­ur­day morn­ing.

One week af­ter Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher warned the pub­lic against the mis­use of gel blaster guns, a teenag­er was al­leged­ly in­jured fol­low­ing a con­fronta­tion be­tween po­lice and sus­pects who were us­ing the toys ear­ly yes­ter­day.

The Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) closed off nom­i­na­tions for its forth­com­ing elec­tions last Fri­day.

The past year has seen new records be­ing set as T&T record­ed its high­est-ever mur­der toll at 624 and with the pub­lic clam­our­ing for the au­thor­i­ties to take back the coun­try from crim­i­nal el­e­ments – a State of Emer­gency (SoE) was an­nounced on De­cem­ber 30, in the hope it would bring a sting­ing halt to this grim pe­ri­od.

The As­sem­bly of South­ern Lawyers (ASL) has heav­i­ly crit­i­cised the re­cent­ly de­clared State of Emer­gency (SoE), brand­ing it a “com­e­dy of er­rors” and an ill-pre­pared re­sponse to T&T’s un­re­lent­ing crime wave.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing in­to the theft of a quan­ti­ty of al­co­hol worth $25,000 from An­gos­tu­ra Ltd, East­ern Main Road, Laven­tille.