A busi­ness­man from cen­tral Trinidad, sus­pect­ed of op­er­at­ing a broth­el and en­gag­ing in hu­man traf­fick­ing, has lost his le­gal chal­lenge over be­ing de­tained on a Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO) for the past three months.

Over four years af­ter the trag­ic in­ci­dent at Paria Fu­el Trad­ing Com­pa­ny’s Pointe-a-Pierre fa­cil­i­ty, where four divers lost their lives, the fate of par­al­lel pros­e­cu­tions brought by the Oc­cu­pa­tion­al Safe­ty and Health Au­thor­i­ty (OSH Au­thor­i­ty) is still up in the air.

Eighty-year-old Lawrence Ram­per­sad prayed for his life and the safe­ty of his bedrid­den wife as two in­trud­ers beat him at his Gran Cou­va home on Tues­day.

The sev­en po­lice of­fi­cers ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the dis­ap­pear­ance of three firearms and a quan­ti­ty of am­mu­ni­tion from the Cen­tral Po­lice Sta­tion (CPS) on St Vin­cent Street, Port-of-Spain, on Mon­day re­main in cus­tody.

The sound of steel­pan and mem­o­ries of a life de­vot­ed to mu­sic filled the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah in Port-of-Spain yes­ter­day, as fam­i­ly, friends and mem­bers of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s steel­pan fra­ter­ni­ty gath­ered to bid farewell to in­ter­na­tion­al­ly ac­claimed pan­nist, arranger and com­pos­er Robert “Rob­bie” Greenidge.

A busi­ness­man from cen­tral Trinidad, sus­pect­ed of op­er­at­ing a broth­el and en­gag­ing in hu­man traf­fick­ing, has lost his le­gal chal­lenge over be­ing de­tained on a Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO) for the past three months.

Venezuela is mov­ing ahead with plans to send ap­prox­i­mate­ly sev­en tril­lion cu­bic feet of nat­ur­al gas to Trinidad and To­ba­go for pro­cess­ing, as work ad­vances on the cross-bor­der Lo­ran-Man­a­tee gas field.

Two men have been charged with wound­ing with in­tent fol­low­ing an al­leged cut­lass at­tack at the San Fer­nan­do Taxi Stand near High Street, Princes Town, on Au­gust 7.

The trop­i­cal wave we’ve been track­ing across the At­lantic is now just 550 km east of the Wind­ward Is­lands, and its chances of de­vel­op­ing have fall­en sharply.

CARI­COM IM­PACS says a four-week re­gion­al op­er­a­tion has dis­rupt­ed transna­tion­al smug­gling net­works and seized an es­ti­mat­ed US$54.5 mil­lion in il­lic­it as­sets and con­tra­band.

A 79-year-old pen­sion­er was as­sault­ed and robbed dur­ing a home in­va­sion at Pep­per Vil­lage, Gran Cou­va, on Tues­day evening.

Sev­en po­lice of­fi­cers have now been ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the dis­ap­pear­ance of three firearms and a quan­ti­ty of am­mu­ni­tion from the Cen­tral Po­lice Sta­tion at St Vin­cent Street, Port-of-Spain.