Rel­a­tives of 28-year-old Nigel “Poo­gie” Mo­hammed are de­mand­ing jus­tice fol­low­ing a pre-dawn po­lice op­er­a­tion in La Ro­maine yes­ter­day that left Mo­hammed and an­oth­er man dead.

Crim­i­nol­o­gist Dr Randy Seep­er­sad says the ab­sence of the Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er is a non-is­sue as the po­lice ser­vice re­mains with ca­pa­ble lead­er­ship.

PanTrin­ba­go pres­i­dent Bev­er­ly Ram­sey-Moore has crit­i­cised the han­dling of the re­cent con­fronta­tion be­tween po­lice and mem­bers of Sil­ver Stars Steel Or­ches­tra, in­sist­ing that a lack of un­der­stand­ing of steel­band cul­ture con­tributed to the in­ci­dent.

The sud­den death of 18-year-old dancer Jed­da Be­har­ry has left her fam­i­ly dev­as­tat­ed and search­ing for an­swers, with rel­a­tives re­fus­ing to com­ment on the cir­cum­stances of her pass­ing un­til an au­top­sy is com­plet­ed.

A ban­dit, pos­ing as a pas­sen­ger, shot a 48-year-old taxi dri­ver in the shoul­der dur­ing a heist at Chase Vil­lage, Ch­agua­nas on Fri­day night.

Sev­en peo­ple were ar­rest­ed and a stolen ve­hi­cle re­cov­ered dur­ing an an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion across the South­ern Di­vi­sion on Sat­ur­day.

Nu­trien’s strate­gic re­view of its Trinidad Ni­tro­gen op­er­a­tions is con­tin­u­ing, with rep­re­sen­ta­tives from third-par­ty or­gan­i­sa­tions ex­pect­ed to con­duct site vis­its at the Point Lisas fa­cil­i­ty this week.

Port Au­thor­i­ty work­ers are de­mand­ing the re­main­ing 80 per cent of their out­stand­ing back­pay and over­time, now es­ti­mat­ed at ap­prox­i­mate­ly $337 mil­lion, while press­ing the Port Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (PATT) Board to set­tle four long-de­layed col­lec­tive agree­ments dat­ing from 2014 to the present.

To mark the Au­gust 17 birth­day of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s on­ly No­bel Prize win­ner so far, Friends of Mr Biswas opens up a new per­spec­tive on the writer this week, ex­plor­ing his work un­der the wide-rang­ing top­ic “Moth­er­ing”.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) is seek­ing a venue for its an­nu­al con­ven­tion af­ter its re­quest to use Queen’s Hall on No­vem­ber 22 was de­nied be­cause the venue was ful­ly booked.

Ex­ec­u­tive mem­bers of the Trin­ba­go Uni­fied Ca­lyp­so­ni­ans Or­gan­i­sa­tion (TU­CO), led by chair­man An­si­ley King, yes­ter­day met with some mem­bers of the South/Cen­tral ca­lyp­so fra­ter­ni­ty at the San Fer­nan­do Cre­ative Arts Cen­tre to ad­dress re­cent griev­ances with­in the zone.

Five months af­ter leav­ing Trinidad for In­dia in the hope of beat­ing can­cer, 20-year-old Di­nesh Gadraj has died af­ter un­der­go­ing a bone mar­row trans­plant, leav­ing his fam­i­ly dev­as­tat­ed and his moth­er strug­gling to come to terms with his death.