Ur­gent calls are be­ing made for in­creased po­lice pa­trols at Flower Pot Beach in Pointe-a-Pierre af­ter two gun­men robbed a Pe­nal fam­i­ly of a phone and cash.

A se­nior po­lice of­fi­cer said yes­ter­day that the 30-year-old had been tak­en off the ven­ti­la­tor on Thurs­day and had been breath­ing on her own.

An es­tate con­sta­ble ac­ci­den­tal­ly dis­charged his gun while on du­ty in Point Fortin yes­ter­day, shoot­ing both him­self and his col­league.

Po­lice are search­ing for the ban­dits who robbed a Piz­za Hut out­let in Cou­va of an undis­closed sum of cash on Thurs­day night. 

The Citi Foun­da­tion (the “Foun­da­tion”) an­nounced that Habi­tat for Hu­man­i­ty in Trinidad and To­ba­go was se­lect­ed to re­ceive US$500,000 in cat­alyt­ic fund­ing as part of the 2024 Glob­al In­no­va­tion Chal­lenge, which aims to sup­port so­lu­tions that ad­dress home­less­ness. In Latam, oth­er nine NGO’s from Ar­genti­na, Brazil, Colom­bia, Cos­ta Ri­ca, Ecuador, El Sal­vador, Mex­i­co and Pe­ru al­so were se­lect­ed to re­ceive fund­ing, for a to­tal of 50 com­mu­ni­ty or­ga­ni­za­tions around the world that col­lec­tive will re­ceive $25 mil­lion dol­lars.

Pres­i­dent Joe Biden on Fri­day for­mal­ly apol­o­gized to Na­tive Amer­i­cans for the “sin” of a gov­ern­ment-run board­ing school sys­tem that for decades forcibly sep­a­rat­ed chil­dren from their par­ents, call­ing it a “blot on Amer­i­can his­to­ry” in his first pres­i­den­tial vis­it to In­di­an Coun­try.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) says it has not­ed with in­creas­ing con­cern the co-or­di­nat­ed protest ac­tion that oc­curred yes­ter­day and the state­ment that the Na­tion may be in for some “dark days” ahead.

The In­ter­na­tion­al Mon­e­tary Fund (IMF) Fri­day said while still grow­ing gen­er­al­ly faster than the rest of the re­gion, Caribbean economies are ex­pect­ed to slow in 2024 and 2025, on the back of de­cel­er­a­tion in tourism.

Po­lice have launched an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to a re­port of an as­sault at Siparia West Sec­ondary School, where three stu­dents re­port­ed­ly at­tacked a Form Two stu­dent on Wednes­day, leav­ing him bruised and shak­en.

The T&T Met Ser­vice has dis­con­tin­ued the Ad­verse Weath­er Alert. The po­ten­tial for im­pact­ful weath­er has de­creased due to the pres­ence of mod­er­ate con­cen­tra­tions of Sa­ha­ran dust. "While the dust will in­hib­it the fre­quen­cy of show­ers with ac­com­pa­ny­ing sig­nif­i­cant gusts, breezy to windy con­di­tions can still be ex­pe­ri­enced," a state­ment said on Fri­day af­ter­noon.

A T&T na­tion­al has been ex­tra­dit­ed to the Unit­ed States to face charges for 128 counts of sex crime of­fences against chil­dren.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) is ad­vis­ing that heavy overnight rain­fall in ar­eas of North East Trinidad has im­pact­ed op­er­a­tions at sev­er­al sur­face wa­ter treat­ment fa­cil­i­ties.