Two ban­dits at­tempt­ed to abduct a mo­torist af­ter rob­bing him on Thurs­day in San Fer­nan­do, but the 34-year-old Freeport man fought back and es­caped.

A ju­ry de­lib­er­at­ed for less than two hours be­fore ac­quit­ting Ray Paul Julien of a 12-year-old mur­der charge.

While ac­knowl­edg­ing that a year-end uptick in cer­tain types of crime was ex­pect­ed, ACP in charge of the Crim­i­nal Di­vi­sion, Richard Smith, said height­ened po­lice pres­ence in shop­ping cen­tres is in­flu­enc­ing crim­i­nal pat­terns and urged the pub­lic to ad­just their rou­tines to make them­selves less vul­ner­a­ble tar­gets.

Front­line work­ers across Trinidad and To­ba­go are grow­ing in­creas­ing­ly frus­trat­ed as fire­fight­ers, teach­ers, and civ­il ser­vants await over­due salary ad­just­ments and back pay, while the process re­mains mired in bu­reau­cra­cy and un­cer­tain­ty.

One man was ar­rest­ed and three firearms were seized dur­ing State of Emer­gency op­er­a­tions con­duct­ed overnight in the North­ern and North East­ern Di­vi­sions.

Two male sus­pects have been ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with a rob­bery in­volv­ing a maxi taxi and its pas­sen­gers along the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route in Arou­ca on No­vem­ber 19.

A woman has been grant­ed bail af­ter ap­pear­ing in the High Court charged with pre­sent­ing a forged Caribbean Ex­am­i­na­tions Coun­cil (CXC) cer­tifi­cate in an at­tempt to join the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS).

Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Trinci­ty/Mal­oney Camille Robin­son-Reg­is has an­nounced that she is re­cov­er­ing well fol­low­ing a planned med­ical pro­ce­dure and is ex­pect­ed to re­sume full of­fi­cial du­ties in Jan­u­ary 2026.

Hong Kong fire­fight­ers found dozens more bod­ies Fri­day in an in­ten­sive apart­ment-by-apart­ment search of a high-rise com­plex where a mas­sive fire en­gulfed sev­en build­ings, and au­thor­i­ties ar­rest­ed an­oth­er 8 peo­ple in­volved in the tow­ers’ ren­o­va­tion. The death toll in one of the city’s dead­liest blazes rose to 128, and many re­main un­ac­count­ed for.

The Of­fice of the Chief Sec­re­tary (OCS) of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly says it is seek­ing full clar­i­fi­ca­tion from the Cen­tral Gov­ern­ment on the in­stal­la­tion of a Unit­ed States-sup­port­ed radar sys­tem at the ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port, fol­low­ing pub­lic con­cerns trig­gered by com­ments from Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar on Wednes­day.

Af­ter sev­er­al hours of tense ne­go­ti­a­tions, the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) and the Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer (CPO) have reached an agree­ment on a ten per cent wage in­crease for pub­lic sec­tor work­ers.

Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro made it clear yes­ter­day that no for­eign “threat or ag­gres­sion” will in­tim­i­date the Venezue­lan peo­ple, fol­low­ing what he called 17 weeks of threats from the US, as he com­mem­o­rat­ed the 105th an­niver­sary of the Bo­li­var­i­an Mil­i­tary Avi­a­tion of Venezuela and the 33rd an­niver­sary of the No­vem­ber 27, 1992 at­tempt­ed coup.