The Gov­ern­ment has con­firmed a change in lead­er­ship at the Trinidad and To­ba­go De­fence Force. On 7th Oc­to­ber, Air Vice Mar­shal Dar­ryl Daniel’s ap­point­ment as Chief of De­fence Staff was re­voked, and Cap­tain Don Po­lo was ap­point­ed to the role.

Trop­i­cal Storm Jer­ry has in­ten­si­fied in­to a mod­er­ate trop­i­cal storm and con­tin­ues on a north-west­ward track as it nears the north­ern Lee­ward is­lands.

Hous­ing Min­is­ter David Lee was grant­ed $1 mil­lion bail as the state pre­pares to lay an in­dict­ment against him and busi­ness­man Hugh Leong Poi.

Op­po­si­tion Chief Whip Mar­vin Gon­za­les is warn­ing that the Gov­ern­ment’s al­leged cam­paign to re­move ex­ec­u­tive pro­fes­sion­als across key state en­ti­ties, in­clud­ing the re­cent de­ci­sion to send Chief of De­fence Staff Air Vice-Mar­shal Dar­ryl Daniel on leave, could have far-reach­ing con­se­quences for na­tion­al sta­bil­i­ty and se­cu­ri­ty.

Two Arou­ca men were ar­rest­ed min­utes af­ter they tried to shoot an­oth­er man at his home on Tues­day af­ter­noon.

A 41-year-old pris­on­er died in his cell at the Arou­ca Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison days af­ter be­ing hos­pi­talised for a med­ica­tion over­dose.

A 70-year-old Diego Mar­tin man fright­ened away a ban­dit who tried to rob him ear­ly on Tues­day morn­ing.

A 37-year-old man was shot and killed fol­low­ing an ar­gu­ment be­tween his friend and an­oth­er man over vis­i­ta­tion of their 11-month-old child.

Two men were de­nied bail when they ap­peared in court this week charged joint­ly with pos­ses­sion of cannabis for the pur­pose of traf­fick­ing.

The Guyana gov­ern­ment has sig­nalled its pre­pared­ness to ex­tra­dite the leader of the re­cent­ly formed We In­vest in Na­tion­hood (WIN) par­ty, Azrud­din Mo­hamed, and his fa­ther, Nazar “Shell” Mo­hamed, who are want­ed in the Unit­ed States on sev­er­al fraud re­lat­ed charges.

A trop­i­cal storm watch has gone in­to ef­fect for sev­er­al Caribbean is­lands as Trop­i­cal Storm Jer­ry is fore­cast to be­come a hur­ri­cane on Thurs­day.

The Con­gress of the Peo­ple (COP) has called for due process to be ob­served fol­low­ing the ar­rest and charg­ing of Hous­ing Min­is­ter David Lee and busi­ness­man Hugh Leong Poi.