The Con­gress of the Peo­ple (COP) has moved to dis­pel spec­u­la­tion re­gard­ing its in­volve­ment in a for­mal coali­tion with the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) and oth­er po­lit­i­cal groups. 

The Val­sayn res­i­dence of kid­napped pen­sion­er Za­hir Khan re­mained locked up yes­ter­day, with on­ly a watch­man in­ter­fac­ing with the pub­lic from be­hind two locked gates even as po­lice of­fi­cers car­ried out ex­ten­sive is­land-wide search­es for the vic­tim.

While Sat­ur­day’s rob­bery at Flagstaff Hill Res­i­dences, Long Cir­cu­lar Road, St James, left peo­ple in the pri­vate de­vel­op­ment feel­ing un­easy—at least one res­i­dent doesn’t be­lieve the rest of the oc­cu­pants in the gat­ed com­pound are in dan­ger.

Hours be­fore pen­sion­er Am­i­na Mo­hammed was killed by armed men dur­ing a dead­ly home in­va­sion on Sat­ur­day night in Cou­va, a Mar­aval man was killed in a sim­i­lar man­ner.

Po­lice said Kendell Corke, 37, of Par­adise Lane had stopped out­side his house around 2 am yes­ter­day and was just about to ex­it the ve­hi­cle when he was shot in the head and body.

It is no co­in­ci­dence that the stand­alone book out of the ten Ayana KSL John re­leased on No­vem­ber 30 at the Na­tion­al Li­brary and In­for­ma­tion Sys­tem Au­thor­i­ty (NALIS) in Port-of-Spain is a re­li­gious book ti­tled Church is on the Move.

Agents of the Na­tion­al Lot­ter­ies Con­trol Board (NL­CB) are rais­ing con­cerns over what they de­scribe as poor­ly ex­e­cut­ed poli­cies and un­work­able op­er­a­tional mea­sures that have sig­nif­i­cant­ly dis­rupt­ed their busi­ness­es. 

Mem­bers of the Fac­ul­ty of Bio­sciences, Agri­cul­ture, and Food Tech­nol­o­gy (BAFT) at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go are up­set af­ter a new lead­er­ship struc­ture was an­nounced.

The Coun­cil­lor for Long­denville/Tal­paro Ryan Ram­per­sad says that two hous­ing de­vel­op­ers, who res­i­dents are par­tial­ly blam­ing for the de­plorable con­di­tion of Wel­come Road Cunu­pia, will con­tribute ma­te­r­i­al to re­pair part of the road.

Some peo­ple may ar­gue the role of the Spe­cial Vic­tims De­part­ment (SVD) is sole­ly to in­ves­ti­gate sex­u­al and trau­ma-re­lat­ed crimes, but those lead­ing the charge say they al­so have a role to play in bridg­ing the so­cial and eco­nom­ic di­vide that ex­ists.

Fa­tal­ly stabbed four times in the neck dur­ing a home in­va­sion in Cou­va on Sat­ur­day, Am­i­na Mo­hammed had no chance of sur­vival dur­ing a home in­va­sion.

Au­thor­i­ties have iden­ti­fied the man found dead in his ve­hi­cle at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port car park on Fri­day.