Two weeks af­ter the head of the An­ti-Kid­nap­ping Unit (AKU) urged the pub­lic to re­frain from shar­ing too much per­son­al in­for­ma­tion on­line, se­nior po­lice of­fi­cers agreed that ex­tor­tion vic­tims were some­times re­spon­si­ble for lead­ing these per­pe­tra­tors right to their door via their so­cial me­dia posts. They re­vealed that some peo­ple were even be­ing ex­tort­ed by rel­a­tives.

Pres­i­dent-elect Don­ald Trump’s al­lies on Capi­tol Hill ral­lied around Pe­te Hegseth, Trump’s Pen­ta­gon pick, on Thurs­day even as new de­tails sur­faced about al­le­ga­tions that he had sex­u­al­ly as­sault­ed a woman in 2017.

Le­gal Of­fi­cer for the Po­lice Ser­vice, Cor­po­ral Za­heer Ali, says it is im­por­tant that the po­lice of­fi­cers who were charged with ex­tor­tion be giv­en the op­por­tu­ni­ty to clear their names in a court of law.

As­sur­ances are be­ing giv­en by the To­ba­go Polic­ing Di­vi­sion that none of the 25 mur­ders record­ed on the is­land this year have gone cold.

The vic­tim, who has been iden­ti­fied as Shas­tri Anand Ram­per­sad, al­leged­ly was tak­en at gun­point by masked men around 2 pm, from his quar­ry at Pierre Street, Lendore Vil­lage, En­ter­prise.

The Cam­pus Ex­ec­u­tive Man­age­ment Team of The UWI St. Au­gus­tine is urg­ing Gov­ern­ment ne­go­tia­tors and mem­bers of the West In­dies Group of Uni­ver­si­ty Teach­ers (WIGUT) to re­turn to the ne­go­ti­at­ing ta­ble, so that the cur­rent im­passe can be brought to sat­is­fac­to­ry con­clu­sion.

Po­lice seized over $1.8 mil­lion worth of cannabis and ar­rest­ed one sus­pect dur­ing an op­er­a­tion in Cunu­pia yes­ter­day, the Po­lice Ser­vice has con­firmed.

A fire broke out at Up Top Bar & Lounge in Crown Point, To­ba­go on Wednes­day evening, se­vere­ly dam­ag­ing the lounge and near­by busi­ness­es.

The Unit­ed States Im­mi­gra­tion and Cus­toms En­force­ment (ICE) agency says agents from its En­force­ment and Re­moval Op­er­a­tions (ERO) in Bal­ti­more, Mary­land have ap­pre­hend­ed an un­doc­u­ment­ed Trinida­di­an na­tion­al among five im­mi­grants in a “tar­get­ed op­er­a­tion” through­out Mary­land.

Coun­tries of the world took turns re­ject­ing a new but vague draft text re­leased ear­ly Thurs­day which at­tempts to form the spine of any deal reached at Unit­ed Na­tions cli­mate talks on mon­ey for de­vel­op­ing coun­tries to tran­si­tion to clean en­er­gy and adapt to cli­mate change.

The Po­lice Com­plaints Au­thor­i­ty (PCA) has ini­ti­at­ed in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the col­lapse of two court cas­es in­volv­ing po­lice of­fi­cers this week.

Po­lice are on the high­way near Gol­con­da where the body of an ab­duct­ed man was found in a ve­hi­cle around 10:30 a.m.