Fol­low­ing a sec­ond do­mes­tic-vi­o­lence mur­der-sui­cide in un­der a month, ad­vo­cates are rais­ing ur­gent ques­tions about whether po­lice and so­cial-ser­vice sys­tems are work­ing—or fail­ing those at risk.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has re­voked a pre­ven­ta­tive de­ten­tion or­der (PDO) against a man from Cara­po, who was al­ready on re­mand when it was ex­e­cut­ed in Sep­tem­ber. 

The State has been or­dered to pay al­most $200,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to a 56-year-old busi­ness­man from Freeport for wrong­ful ar­rest, false im­pris­on­ment and ma­li­cious pros­e­cu­tion. 

Rus­sell Be­dasse, the po­lice of­fi­cer who pledged to spend the rest of his life in­ves­ti­gat­ing the sus­pi­cious death of his moth­er, Shelawai­htie “Meera” Be­dasse, was found hang­ing in a room of his Coro­man­del Vil­lage, Ce­dros home yes­ter­day.

Make It Hap­pen Net­work founder An­dre Sealey is hop­ing to cre­ate a so­cial ex­pe­ri­ence bet­ter suit­ed for work­ing pro­fes­sion­als.

Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of En­er­gy, Ernesto Ke­sar, met with ex­ec­u­tives of Touch­stone Ex­plo­ration Trinidad Lim­it­ed on Mon­day.

The Cit­i­zens Against Noise Pol­lu­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (CANPTT) has ac­knowl­edged the progress made with the Fire­works Reg­u­la­tion Bill now be­fore Par­lia­ment but says the leg­is­la­tion re­mains in­com­plete and un­able to pro­tect cit­i­zens in its cur­rent form.

Pres­i­dent pro tem­pore and Co­or­di­na­tor of the Tran­si­tion Coun­cil, Lau­rent Saint-Cyr, has wel­comed the lat­est batch of Kenyan troops who will re­in­force the Gang Re­pres­sion Force (FRG) in Haiti.

Chief Sec­re­tary and To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP) leader Far­ley Au­gus­tine says he was “sur­prised” by Wat­son Duke’s pub­lic en­dorse­ment of the TPP ahead of the 12 Jan­u­ary THA elec­tion, but he is wel­com­ing the sup­port.

The Gov­ern­ment has or­dered the Uni­ver­si­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go to scrap its Christ­mas and end-of-year events, tight­en­ing con­trols on pub­lic spend­ing as state en­ti­ties, in­clud­ing Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um, move to can­cel their own func­tions.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro says the kid­nap­ping of cou­ple Derek and Clari­bel Tardieu is be­ing treat­ed with the high­est pri­or­i­ty.

A cen­tral man man­aged to es­cape to safe­ty over the week­end, af­ter he was ab­duct­ed by two men he re­port­ed­ly knew.