Just two weeks af­ter po­lice shot and killed two al­leged as­sailants in her neigh­bour­hood, Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress coun­cil­lor Vanes­sa Kussie was robbed out­side her home on Thurs­day night.

The rel­a­tives of 28-year-old An­dell Lee are de­mand­ing an in­de­pen­dent in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to his fa­tal shoot­ing by po­lice in St Barbs, Laven­tille, on Thurs­day, in­sist­ing the of­fi­cial ac­count of the in­ci­dent does not match what fam­i­ly mem­bers and res­i­dents say oc­curred.

A rob­bery sus­pect want­ed in con­nec­tion with a home in­va­sion in the Mon Re­pos dis­trict was shot and killed by po­lice in Ste Madeleine yes­ter­day af­ter he al­leged­ly point­ed a firearm at of­fi­cers pur­su­ing him dur­ing an in­tel­li­gence-led an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion.

Lawyers rep­re­sent­ing the fam­i­lies of two women with eight chil­dren and two or­phans of a for­mer Trinida­di­an Is­lam­ic State (IS) fight­er strand­ed in a Syr­i­an refugee camp have been en­cour­aged to con­tin­ue talks with the State over its of­fi­cial po­si­tion on whether the group can re­turn to Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Six po­lice con­sta­bles have scored an­oth­er vic­to­ry in their al­most decade-long le­gal bat­tle over pro­mo­tions. 

The fu­ner­al ser­vice for vet­er­an ca­lyp­son­ian Broth­er Valenti­no will take place on Thurs­day, Oc­to­ber 29, at the Cathe­dral of the Im­mac­u­late Con­cep­tion, In­de­pen­dence Square, Port-of-Spain.

A man be­lieved to be want­ed in con­nec­tion with a home in­va­sion and rob­bery in­ves­ti­ga­tion was shot and killed by po­lice dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in Ste Madeleine ear­ly this morn­ing.

A del­e­ga­tion of Venezue­lan pub­lic and pri­vate-sec­tor of­fi­cials from Su­cre State will vis­it Trinidad and To­ba­go next week to seek eco­nom­ic part­ner­ships and strength­en bi­lat­er­al ties.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the theft of gov­ern­ment-owned lap­tops from the Point Fortin West Sec­ondary School.

The Ju­di­cia­ry of Trinidad and To­ba­go has con­sult­ed ju­di­cial of­fi­cers, le­gal prac­ti­tion­ers and jus­tice-sec­tor stake­hold­ers on ways to im­prove the ad­min­is­tra­tion of fam­i­ly jus­tice and en­sure the time­ly res­o­lu­tion of cas­es.

An 18-year-old San­gre Grande man has been charged with shop break­ing and lar­ce­ny af­ter more than $41,000 worth of shoes, cell phones and a lap­top were stolen from a busi­ness in Va­len­cia last week.

The Asian Foot­ball Con­fed­er­a­tion has en­dorsed Gi­an­ni In­fan­ti­no for an­oth­er term as FI­FA pres­i­dent in an ap­par­ent turn­around in its stance from two months ago when it crit­i­cized the head of soc­cer’s world gov­ern­ing body for a breach of trust.