De­spite es­ca­lat­ing ten­sions be­tween T&T and Venezuela over this coun­try’s sup­port of the Unit­ed States mil­i­tary op­er­a­tions near Venezue­lan wa­ters, some Moru­ga fish­er­men say the Colum­bus Chan­nel re­mains calm for them.

The Pro­fes­sion­al Stan­dards Bu­reau (PSB) is now in­ves­ti­gat­ing the theft of over $1 mil­lion worth of mar­i­jua­na from the Barataria Po­lice Sta­tion.

Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo will have to se­lect the coun­try’s next Chief Jus­tice at some point over the next 12 months. This comes as Chief Jus­tice Ivor Archie an­nounced his plan to re­tire while de­liv­er­ing his an­nu­al ad­dress at the open­ing of the 2025/2026 Law Term yes­ter­day.

“Good rid­dance. Go your way.” These were the words ex­pressed by out­spo­ken Se­nior Coun­sel Is­rael Khan short­ly af­ter Chief Jus­tice Ivor Archie an­nounced his de­ci­sion to re­tire at some point in the next year.

The re­cent shake-up in the hi­er­ar­chy of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) is draw­ing mixed re­ac­tions, with some po­lice of­fi­cers, as well as a south­ern busi­ness cham­ber and a crim­i­nol­o­gist ques­tion­ing the de­ci­sion. Oth­ers, though, say the changes are com­plete­ly nor­mal.

Chair­man of the Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion Dr Wen­dell Wal­lace says it is the pre­rog­a­tive of the Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice to as­sign and re­as­sign se­nior of­fi­cers as he sees fit.

A po­lice con­sta­ble has been charged in con­nec­tion with the shoot­ing death of mu­nic­i­pal po­lice of­fi­cer Ja­mal Charles, which oc­curred in a guard booth at the Min­istry of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment.

At least one stu­dent from the Preysal Sec­ondary School has been sus­pend­ed for lock­ing a po­lice of­fi­cer in a class­room.

Four mem­bers of a car-steal­ing ring have been or­dered to be de­tained at the East­ern Cor­rec­tion­al Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre in San­ta Rosa un­der the State of Emer­gency reg­u­la­tions.

This was Cari­com’s mes­sage yes­ter­day af­ter Guatemalan armed forces il­le­gal­ly en­tered Be­lize’s ter­ri­to­ry and hoist­ed their flag on Be­lizean ter­ri­to­ry.

This was the de­fi­ant stance tak­en by For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers dur­ing a tele­phone in­ter­view with Guardian Me­dia, mak­ing it clear that this coun­try would not be in­tim­i­dat­ed.

Min­is­ter of Works and In­fra­struc­ture Jear­lean John was on the ground at the Sea Lots wa­ter pumps yes­ter­day, as­sur­ing cit­i­zens that her min­istry is work­ing around the clock to keep Port-of-Spain dry and to strength­en the coun­try’s flood re­sponse.