For near­ly two years, farm­ers in Gran Cou­va have been liv­ing with the heart­break of watch­ing their liveli­hoods slip away with every pass­ing day that the Gran Cou­va Main Road re­mains in a di­lap­i­dat­ed con­di­tion.

Crim­i­nol­o­gist and for­mer chair of the Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PolSC), Pro­fes­sor Ramesh De­osaran, is call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to en­sure there are proac­tive crime-fight­ing mea­sures af­ter an at­tempt­ed home in­va­sion at his Champs Fleurs res­i­dence yes­ter­day morn­ing.

The Fire Ser­vice is re­port­ed­ly fac­ing an un­prece­dent­ed lead­er­ship gap, due to the lack of a deputy chief fire of­fi­cer for al­most a month.

Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion and Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence, Do­minic Smith, is re­ject­ing any as­ser­tion that Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence could lead to a new form of coloni­sa­tion in the Caribbean re­gion.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has be­gun ful­fill­ing a pledge made dur­ing the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) con­ven­tion in June to host reg­u­lar pub­lic days aimed at re­con­nect­ing with cit­i­zens.

Two Unit­ed States cit­i­zens want­ed in their coun­try on drug traf­fick­ing charges have been de­port­ed from Trinidad and To­ba­go.

The Court of Ap­peal is sched­uled to hear a mat­ter over the con­tentious lit­i­ga­tion chal­leng­ing a move by the Gov­ern­ment to ter­mi­nate over 300 Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme Com­pa­ny (CEPEP) con­trac­tors on Oc­to­ber 2.

Po­lice are prob­ing an act of sac­ri­lege and theft af­ter ban­dits smashed the wall to en­ter a Hin­du tem­ple in San­gre Grande.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has dou­bled down on his po­si­tion that de­tails of the State’s an­ti-crime strate­gies will not be made pub­lic.

Po­lice of­fi­cers in­ves­ti­gat­ing the death of a three-month-old ba­by boy say so far, foul play is not sus­pect­ed in con­nec­tion with the in­fant’s demise.

A 39-year-old busi­ness­man is in sta­ble con­di­tion af­ter he was re­port­ed­ly shot by a se­cu­ri­ty guard af­ter a fight out­side a Ca­roni gro­cery store on Mon­day night.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing a spate of rob­beries on Mon­day that took place in sev­er­al ar­eas around Trinidad.