Po­lice opened fire on armed sus­pects in two sep­a­rate in­ci­dents in the North-Cen­tral Di­vi­sion on Fri­day—one in Orop­une Gar­dens and the oth­er in Eliz­a­beth Gar­dens, St Joseph.

For­mer Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has ac­cused Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar of once again spread­ing “lies” in an at­tempt to rewrite the events sur­round­ing the 2021 Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PolSC) mer­it list de­ba­cle.

The bill to re­peal the Trinidad and To­ba­go Rev­enue Au­thor­i­ty (TTRA) Act passed in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives just af­ter 1:15 a.m. on Sat­ur­day, with 27 votes in favour—in­clud­ing sup­port from To­ba­go East MP David Thomas of the To­ba­go Peo­ple's Par­ty, who vot­ed with the gov­ern­ment.

Af­ter sev­er­al days of alerts that reached the or­ange lev­el, the Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice has of­fi­cial­ly dis­con­tin­ued its river­ine flood alert for the Ca­roni and South Oropouche Riv­er basins.

A 33-year-old pris­on­er who was on re­mand for mur­der took his own life in a cell at the Arou­ca Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison on Fri­day af­ter­noon.

Even as they unan­i­mous­ly agreed on the ap­point­ment of act­ing Snr Supt Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro as Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er yes­ter­day, the Gov­ern­ment and Op­po­si­tion took turns spar­ring over the se­lec­tion process be­hind a leader for the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice.

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice-elect Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro says he is hum­bled by the Par­lia­ment’s de­ci­sion to ap­point him as new head of the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS).

“Ghost rentals,” an ab­sence of prop­er­ty leas­es and no Cab­i­net ap­proval of leas­es are cit­ed in the Au­di­tor Gen­er­al’s Re­port on T&T’s ac­counts for 2024, when al­most half a bil­lion dol­lars was spent by the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment gov­ern­ment on prop­er­ty rentals and leas­es, says Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has in­struct­ed Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dave Tan­coo to have the Cen­tral Bank Cen­tral Bank’s ac­counts au­dit­ed by the Au­di­tor Gen­er­al.

Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty plants in sev­er­al ar­eas have been re­stored af­ter re­cent ad­verse weath­er con­di­tions af­fect­ed op­er­a­tions, says Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath.

The man seen ly­ing on the bon­net of a par­tial­ly sub­merged ve­hi­cle dur­ing yes­ter­day’s se­vere flood­ing along Trantrill Road in Ca­roni is safe af­ter swim­ming away from dan­ger.

De­spite sev­er­al heavy show­ers ear­ly yes­ter­day, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) dis­con­tin­ued its Ad­verse Weath­er Alert. The up­date was is­sued yes­ter­day at 10.20 am, as the threat of sig­nif­i­cant rain­fall had de­creased.