Days af­ter the bat­tered body of 12-year-old Mer­cedez Layne was dis­cov­ered in Erin, a 26-year-old Pa­lo Seco man is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear in court to­day.

Sev­en­teen-year-old Adri­an­na Robert­son, who was re­port­ed miss­ing on Mon­day, walked in­to the Tu­na­puna Po­lice Sta­tion yes­ter­day af­ter­noon, bring­ing an end to a brief miss­ing per­sons alert.

The rel­a­tives of a To­ba­go man shot by a po­lice­man on Mon­day evening are ques­tion­ing why he re­mains un­der po­lice guard at hos­pi­tal while the of­fi­cer in­volved is not in cus­tody.

The North West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NWRHA) has been or­dered to pay $75,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to a for­mer em­ploy­ee it wrong­ful­ly ter­mi­nat­ed.

Two con­nect­ed prop­er­ty de­vel­op­ment com­pa­nies and their chair­man have been or­dered to pay al­most $1 mil­lion in com­pen­sa­tion to a for­mer se­nior em­ploy­ee, who claimed he was wrong­ful­ly ter­mi­nat­ed af­ter be­ing false­ly ac­cused of dis­hon­esty.

Re­tire­ment ben­e­fits for mem­bers of the pro­tec­tive ser­vices are es­pe­cial­ly crit­i­cal at this time, as these of­fi­cers con­tin­ue to shoul­der the bur­den of a coun­try un­der pres­sure with­out ad­e­quate re­sources and equip­ment, Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dave Tan­coo said yes­ter­day.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says Gov­ern­ment is com­mit­ted to ad­dress­ing the con­cerns of maxi taxi op­er­a­tors and will con­tin­ue en­gag­ing in di­a­logue with stake­hold­ers in the sec­tor.

Ebo­la pre­cau­tions in ef­fect and mem­bers of the pub­lic have been ad­vised to avoid trav­el to Ebo­la-af­fect­ed coun­tries—the De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Re­pub­lic of Con­go (DRC), South Su­dan and Ugan­da. Those who have vis­it­ed or tran­sit­ed through these ar­eas will be sub­ject to en­hanced health screen­ing up­on ar­rival in Trinidad and To­ba­go, Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe has an­nounced.

Po­lice say in­mates who shared a cell with mur­der ac­cused Christo­pher Ban­field, who was beat­en to death at the Arou­ca Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison, have not yet been in­ter­viewed as in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the in­ci­dent con­tin­ue.

Of­fi­cers of the Re­gion II Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions say en­quiries in­to the mur­der of busi­ness­man and re­put­ed un­der­world fig­ure Dan­ny Guer­ra con­tin­ue, as a per­son of in­ter­est is ac­tive­ly be­ing sought for ques­tion­ing.

Thir­ty-one as­pir­ing ac­tors show­cased their tal­ents and new­ly ac­quired skills dur­ing Cin­don Pro­duc­tions’ re­cent Learn to Act grad­u­a­tion show­case at Na­pari­ma Bowl in San Fer­nan­do.

A 26-year-old Pa­lo Seco man is ex­pect­ed to be charged with the mur­der of 12-year-old Mer­cedez Layne.