The T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has been giv­en un­til 4 pm to­day to charge or re­lease a 21-year-old woman from Matu­ra, who was held in con­nec­tion with the kid­nap­ping of Val­sayn res­i­dent Jankie Satie Karim.

De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturges says an in­mate at the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison (MSP) was us­ing a 65-inch tele­vi­sion in his cell to com­mu­ni­cate with peo­ple on the out­side. The in­mate was re­port­ed­ly us­ing pop­u­lar on­line video games which al­low play­ers to com­mu­ni­cate with each oth­er while play­ing the games.

Four work­ers re­mained hos­pi­talised yes­ter­day and res­i­dents were left shak­en and trau­ma­tised fol­low­ing Thurs­day’s pow­er­ful ex­plo­sion at Ram­co In­dus­tries Ltd’s San Fer­nan­do fa­cil­i­ty. Now, res­i­dents are call­ing for an emer­gency evac­u­a­tion plan to pre­vent a re­peat of what they de­scribed as a fright­en­ing or­deal.

A dra­mat­ic res­cue un­fold­ed in Port-of-Spain yes­ter­day, as a 57-year-old home­less man clung to a rope above the rain-swollen wa­ters of the East Dry Riv­er, nar­row­ly avoid­ing be­ing swept away be­fore he was res­cued.

To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine says he’s pleased they have been able to curb crime on the is­land in the last year.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pene­lope Beck­les is call­ing on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to come out pub­licly and ex­plain why the coun­try is un­der a State of Emer­gency (SoE).

Act­ing Pris­ons Com­mis­sion­er Car­los Cor­raspe is launch­ing an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the es­cape of pris­on­er Abra­ham Brig­gs, who was killed by po­lice of­fi­cers dur­ing a re­port­ed con­fronta­tion.

Thir­ty-five years af­ter the 1990 at­tempt­ed coup, au­thor Otan­cia Noel has chan­nelled her mem­o­ries and imag­i­na­tion in­to Town on Fire, a col­lec­tion of short sto­ries root­ed in one of the coun­try’s most trau­mat­ic events.

As the State of Emer­gency (SoE) en­tered one week yes­ter­day, Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro de­scribed it as “a piv­otal mo­ment for law en­force­ment” in which the true might of the men and women sworn to up­hold the law was high­light­ed.

A to­tal of 21 peo­ple were ar­rest­ed on Thurs­day in the north­ern and south­ern di­vi­sions, dur­ing on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE) op­er­a­tions.

For­mer fi­nance min­is­ter Colm Im­bert is promis­ing dis­missed work­ers of the Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) that the Op­po­si­tion will fight for them.

Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Fi­nance Kennedy Swarats­ingh is rub­bish­ing claims made by for­mer fi­nance min­is­ter Colm Im­bert that the un­em­ploy­ment rate has near­ly dou­bled.