Po­lice are on the high­way near Gol­con­da where the body of an ab­duct­ed man was found in a ve­hi­cle around 10:30 a.m.

Two days af­ter the body of a Cou­va man was found in the Ca­roni Riv­er – an­oth­er body has been dis­cov­ered in the mud­dy wa­ter. The de­com­pos­ing corpse was re­port­ed­ly dis­cov­ered around 7 am by the Hunters Search and Res­cue Team led by Val­lence Ramb­harat.

For­mer CL Fi­nan­cial ex­ec­u­tive An­dre Mon­teil has lost his fi­nal ap­peal be­fore the Privy Coun­cil re­gard­ing a dis­put­ed in­come tax as­sess­ment of over $20 mil­lion.

The death toll in the Gaza Strip from the 13-month-old war be­tween Is­rael and Hamas has sur­passed 44,000, lo­cal health of­fi­cials said Thurs­day.

Schools across the coun­try marked Uni­ver­sal Chil­dren’s Day yes­ter­day with var­i­ous ac­tiv­i­ties em­pha­sis­ing love, sup­port, and pro­tec­tion for chil­dren.

Port Au­thor­i­ty work­ers went back to work yes­ter­day,  al­beit “dis­cour­aged and de­mo­ti­vat­ed,” one work­er de­scribed it, as they com­plied with an In­dus­tri­al Court or­der, pre­vent­ing them from tak­ing any fur­ther in­dus­tri­al ac­tion. 

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) is cel­e­brat­ing a le­gal vic­to­ry af­ter the Court of Ap­peal grant­ed leave for the bill of costs to be de­ter­mined against the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) in its 2015 elec­tion pe­ti­tion. 

Five po­lice of­fi­cers from the North­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force were ac­quit­ted of charges re­lat­ed to ex­tor­tion and mis­be­hav­iour in pub­lic of­fice at the Port-of-Spain High Court yes­ter­day. The court dis­charged the of­fi­cers af­ter the pros­e­cu­tion re­peat­ed­ly failed to present suf­fi­cient ev­i­dence to sup­port the al­le­ga­tions.

Shock, con­cern and em­bar­rass­ment linger among gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials af­ter cor­rup­tion charges against sev­en po­lice of­fi­cers were dropped.

A po­lice of­fi­cer who was ac­cused of as­sault­ing his wife and teenage son has been found not guilty af­ter a tri­al.

Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty, Kei­th Scot­land, has no up­dates on the sta­tus of the Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion’s (PolSC) Pub­lic Trust, Con­fi­dence, and Sat­is­fac­tion Sur­vey, which was in­tend­ed to as­sess the ef­fec­tive­ness of the Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice and Deputy Com­mis­sion­ers. The sur­vey had been sched­uled to run from Sep­tem­ber 17 to Oc­to­ber 8.

Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Fitzger­ald Hinds be­lieves that the ad­di­tion of two drones to the ar­se­nal of the na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty ap­pa­ra­tus will go a long way to­wards curb­ing crime. He said this yes­ter­day at the min­istry’s Aber­crom­by Street head­quar­ters, when the Unit­ed Na­tions Of­fice on Drugs and Crime (UN­ODC) hand­ed over the de­vices.