The To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly in­curred a $7 mil­lion loss on the re­cent­ly con­clud­ed To­ba­go Jazz Ex­pe­ri­ence and To­ba­go Car­ni­val last Oc­to­ber.

Four peo­ple are cur­rent­ly in po­lice cus­tody, as of­fi­cers con­tin­ue in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the dis­ap­pear­ance of a Galil ri­fle from Teteron Bar­racks on Sat­ur­day.

Com­mu­ni­ty ac­tivist and at­tor­ney-at-law Ka­reem Mar­celle and his two old­er broth­ers have won a col­lec­tive $.6 mil­lion from the state in a wrong­ful ar­rest and as­sault and bat­tery case against the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice.

Tragedy has struck the Arthur fam­i­ly of De­laford, To­ba­go, for a sec­ond time in the space of one month.

One res­i­dent is count­ing his lucky stars that he is alive, while two oth­ers - a fa­ther and son - re­mained hos­pi­talised last evening fol­low­ing a shoot­ing in­ci­dent in South Oropouche on Tues­day.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has left for the Ba­hamas to at­tend a high-lev­el meet­ing with US Vice Pres­i­dent Ka­mala Har­ris and Heads of Gov­ern­ment of the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty.

Over $14 mil­lion worth of mar­i­jua­na was seized and three men ar­rest­ed af­ter a fish­ing ves­sel was in­ter­cept­ed dur­ing an ear­ly morn­ing ex­er­cise on Tues­day.

Deputy Port-of-Spain May­or Hillan More­an will as­sist the PNM’s prospec­tive can­di­date for St Anns Riv­er North, for­mer De­fence Force mem­ber Ali­cia Gift, in her cam­paign. She is part of the mix of new faces and in­cum­bents se­lect­ed as PNM prospec­tive can­di­dates in Port-of-Spain, San Juan/Laven­tille and Diego Mar­tin for the Au­gust 14 lo­cal gov­ern­ment elec­tion.

The fact that Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley doesn’t want in­ter­na­tion­al ob­servers for the lo­cal gov­ern­ment elec­tion tells the Op­po­si­tion that the PNM “as al­ways will play dirty”, Ch­agua­nas MP Di­nesh Ram­bal­ly claimed yes­ter­day.

Na­pari­ma MP Rod­ney Charles has crit­i­cised the PNM Gov­ern­ment for fail­ing to pass cam­paign fi­nance leg­is­la­tion. He al­so said PNM can­di­dates are shelling out mon­ey “like a drunk­en sailor” - a claim PNM PRO Faris Al Rawi la­belled “delu­sion­al”.

Vil­lagers blocked Rapsey Trace in Cu­mu­to with de­bris and then set it on fire dur­ing an ear­ly morn­ing protest yes­ter­day over the de­plorable con­di­tion of the road. The protest caused grid­lock traf­fic that af­fect­ed schools and busi­ness­es in the com­mu­ni­ty.

Four Venezue­lan women who are al­leged to have en­tered the coun­try il­le­gal­ly, have been fined by a San Fer­nan­do Mag­is­trate in con­nec­tion with the of­fence. Alexandy Vanes­sa Ro­driguez Marinez, Karelys Del Valle Cas­tro, Zuiaila Isamar Linero and Lissie Ele­na Sis­so De Romero, all of Venezuela, were charged with il­le­gal en­try when they ap­peared be­fore Mag­is­trate Armi­na De­onar­i­nesingh, in the San Fer­nan­do Mag­is­trates’ Court, on Wednes­day.