The Prison Of­fi­cers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (POA) has wel­comed a $165 mil­lion over­time al­lo­ca­tion in the 2027 Bud­get, but says chron­ic un­der­in­vest­ment con­tin­ues to ham­per the op­er­a­tions of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Prison Ser­vice.

Fish­er­man Sel­wyn Sood­een was chopped to death dur­ing an al­ter­ca­tion with an­oth­er fish­er­man at the Guayagua­yare Fish­ing Port on Sun­day.

The dri­ver, a Lam­beau res­i­dent who lives ap­prox­i­mate­ly 200 me­tres away, sur­vived the ter­ri­fy­ing or­deal, but re­mains hos­pi­talised in sta­ble con­di­tion.

As in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue in­to the mur­ders of Rosan­na Ram­lal and her 17-year-old daugh­ter, Ali­na, de­tec­tives in the Re­gion II Homi­cide Bu­reau say they are con­sid­er­ing all pos­si­bil­i­ties. As of yes­ter­day, no ar­rests had been made and in­ves­ti­ga­tors had not es­tab­lished a mo­tive.

Sev­er­al state-con­trolled com­pa­nies have with­drawn their sup­port for this year’s Di­vali Na­gar, with the Na­tion­al Coun­cil of In­di­an Cul­ture (NCIC) ap­peal­ing to the Gov­ern­ment for fi­nan­cial as­sis­tance to stage the an­nu­al cel­e­bra­tions.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) is ap­peal­ing to the pub­lic for as­sis­tance in iden­ti­fy­ing sev­en bod­ies found in the North Cen­tral Di­vi­sion be­tween Oc­to­ber 2021 and March 2026.

Ris­ing fu­el costs, dis­con­tent with the state of schools, de­clin­ing pub­lic ser­vices and a hous­ing cri­sis have cre­at­ed per­fect­ly stormy weath­er for an au­tumn of protests in Eu­rope.

Gangs in Haiti opened fire on an ar­moured ve­hi­cle over the week­end, leav­ing four sol­diers from El Sal­vador un­ac­count­ed for in the first ma­jor at­tack since an in­ter­na­tion­al gang sup­pres­sion force be­gan op­er­a­tions in the vi­o­lence-wracked Caribbean coun­try.

For­mer Cuban Pres­i­dent Raúl Cas­tro is fac­ing more charges in Flori­da re­lat­ed to the 1996 down­ing of civil­ian planes flown by Mi­a­mi-based ex­iles af­ter the U.S. gov­ern­ment in­dict­ed the for­mer leader ear­li­er this year.

So­cial De­vel­op­ment Min­is­ter Van­dana Mo­hit has chal­lenged Op­po­si­tion MP Camille Robin­son-Reg­is to an­swer ques­tions about the Chil­dren’s Au­thor­i­ty’s fi­nan­cial man­age­ment, as their dis­pute over the in­sti­tu­tion’s over­sight and treat­ment of chil­dren in State care con­tin­ues.

For­mer Hous­ing Min­is­ter Camille Robin­son-Reg­is has chal­lenged Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Hous­ing Phillip Alexan­der to ex­plain how the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) vet­ted con­trac­tors se­lect­ed for a $3.48 bil­lion hous­ing pro­gramme, af­ter an Of­fice of Pro­cure­ment Reg­u­la­tion (OPR) in­quiry found de­fi­cien­cies in the process.

Lib­er­ty Caribbean is urg­ing em­ploy­ees and cus­tomers to be alert to AI-gen­er­at­ed im­per­son­ation at­tempts, sus­pi­cious mes­sages and re­quests for sen­si­tive in­for­ma­tion as part of Cy­ber­se­cu­ri­ty Aware­ness Month.