To­ba­go po­lice have is­sued a strong warn­ing that the is­land will not be­come a refuge for crim­i­nals seek­ing to es­cape in­ten­si­fied law en­force­ment ef­forts in Trinidad dur­ing the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE).

At­tor­neys rep­re­sent­ing mur­der ac­cused Ra­jaee Ali have giv­en Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro and Act­ing Pris­ons Com­mis­sion­er Car­los Cor­raspe un­til 4 pm to­day to grant them ac­cess to their client—or face a con­sti­tu­tion­al mo­tion to com­pel com­pli­ance.

The man want­ed in con­nec­tion with the mur­der of miss­ing woman Can­dice Hon­ore was ap­pre­hend­ed by po­lice in San­gre Grande yes­ter­day.

Every morn­ing since her hus­band’s dis­ap­pear­ance on Ju­ly 6, Sav­it­ri Ja­cob woke with the hope that he would re­turn home alive. But on Sat­ur­day, some­time af­ter 4 pm, her worst fears were con­firmed when his de­com­pos­ing body was found un­der a bam­boo patch about three kilo­me­tres from their Bronte Vil­lage, Princes Town home. An au­top­sy is ex­pect­ed this week to de­ter­mine how 57-year-old El­ton Ja­cob died.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) has an­nounced a se­ries of ma­jor in­fra­struc­ture up­grades aimed at im­prov­ing the re­li­a­bil­i­ty of wa­ter sup­ply to res­i­dents along Trinidad’s North Coast.

As Trinidad and To­ba­go ap­proach­es the first 72 hours of the State of Emer­gency, Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro says the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) is shift­ing from tra­di­tion­al en­force­ment to a more proac­tive strat­e­gy ground­ed in in­tel­li­gence and covert op­er­a­tions.

Caribbean Air­lines says no con­firmed pas­sen­gers were dis­placed to ac­com­mo­date Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials on do­mes­tic flights be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go over the week­end.

Hours af­ter a State of Emer­gency went in­to ef­fect in Trinidad and To­ba­go on Fri­day, a man breached se­cu­ri­ty at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port and ran on­to the air­port ramp.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice is close­ly mon­i­tor­ing a low-pres­sure sys­tem lo­cat­ed ap­prox­i­mate­ly 1,610 kilo­me­tres east-south­east of the Less­er An­tilles.

Rel­a­tives of Ryan Bharatt are call­ing for a cur­few to be im­ple­ment­ed af­ter he was mur­dered some­time be­tween Fri­day night and ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing, re­port­ed­ly for re­fus­ing to pay ex­tor­tion mon­ey.

Hours af­ter the at­tor­neys rep­re­sent­ing mur­der ac­cused Ra­jaee Ali were de­nied an ap­pli­ca­tion to have him trans­ferred to the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison, they threat­ened to take At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie to court.

Cell­phones be­hind bars and con­tract killings or­dered by in­mates have plagued Trinidad and To­ba­go’s prison sys­tem. From chron­ic over­crowd­ing and poor in­fra­struc­ture to lim­it­ed re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion and staff short­ages, the prison sys­tem is break­ing down from with­in.