Al­though sig­nif­i­cant steps have been made this year in ad­dress­ing gen­der-based vi­o­lence the Coali­tion against Do­mes­tic Vi­o­lence (CADV) said they are not suf­fi­cient to “re­verse the tide of abuse that is en­dem­ic to this coun­try.”

The Gov­ern­ment has pledged to end long-stand­ing is­sues in­volved in get­ting clear land ti­tles in this coun­try, par­tic­u­lar­ly in To­ba­go.

Five men from east Port-of-Spain have been each grant­ed $250,000 bail af­ter ap­pear­ing in court on gang and car theft charges.

A High Court Judge has or­dered the im­me­di­ate re­lease of 10 mi­nors and four of their moth­ers from a mi­grant de­ten­tion cen­tre at the Coast Guard's He­li­port in Ch­aguara­mas.

Af­ter three days on the rough seas, 16 Venezue­lan chil­dren, the youngest a four-month-old ba­by and the el­dest child 14 years, along with 11 adults, most­ly women, re­turned to the shores of Trinidad.

The Min­istry of Health has record­ed 13 new COVID cas­es bring­ing the to­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es to 734. The min­istry stat­ed that of the 648 per­sons in home self-iso­la­tion, 174 are in the care of the prison sys­tem.

The He­roes Foun­da­tion is set to ben­e­fit in a big way once again as all Mc­Don­ald’s restau­rants across Trinidad will be cel­e­brat­ing “Great Day”. On Sat­ur­day, No­vem­ber 28, all pro­ceeds from sales of Mc­Don­ald’s icon­ic burg­er, the Big Mac, will go di­rect­ly to The He­roes Foun­da­tion, which is a lo­cal­ly reg­is­tered non-prof­it or­gan­i­sa­tion es­tab­lished to serve youths in Trinidad and To­ba­go. 

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing in­to an armed rob­bery on the com­pound of the St Charles RC Church, Tu­na­puna, in which a nun and two parish­ioners were robbed of cash, cell­phones and jew­ellery.

Gid­deon Bar­lo, al­so known as “Lenny­boy” was ar­rest­ed and charged yes­ter­day for bur­glary. He is sched­uled to ap­pear be­fore Mag­is­trate Aden Stroude at the Siparia Mag­is­trates’ Court to­day. The 35-year-old labour­er from Pe­nal was charged in re­la­tion to an in­ci­dent that oc­curred on Au­gust 10th, 2020.

A 29-year-old Las Lo­mas man is ex­pect­ed to face a Ch­agua­nas Mag­is­trate to­day, Tues­day 24 No­vem­ber 2020, in a vir­tu­al hear­ing, af­ter be­ing charged with ma­li­cious wound­ing.

De­on Gar­diner, 33, and Jabari James, 24, are sched­uled to ap­pear at the Scar­bor­ough Mag­is­trates’ Court to­day charged with the mur­der of 23-year-old, Omari Matthews.
The two were charged yes­ter­day for the of­fences of mur­der and pos­ses­sion of a firearm and am­mu­ni­tion. The charges were laid fol­low­ing the ad­vice of Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions, Mr Roger Gas­pard.

A Moru­ga man who chopped his neigh­bour’s goat in a fit of rage be­cause it ate his crops, has been jailed for six months.