Rel­a­tives of two women — both named Su­san — who were killed in a car ac­ci­dent in the Unit­ed States over the week­end, have launched a Go­FundMe cam­paign to re­turn their bod­ies to the Caribbean.

En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries Min­is­ters Dr Roodal Mooni­lal and Ernesto Ke­sar have or­dered an ur­gent re­view of reg­u­la­tions gov­ern­ing Liq­ue­fied Pe­tro­le­um Gas (LPG) fol­low­ing a se­ries of dead­ly ex­plo­sions and fires linked to do­mes­tic gas cylin­ders.

High Court Judge Nali­ni Singh dis­missed kid­nap­ping and rob­bery charges against a taxi dri­ver last Tues­day, af­ter she found the State had erred in a pro­ce­dur­al mat­ter.

In his fi­nal case as an or­di­nary Ap­peal Court Judge, Chief Jus­tice Ron­nie Boodoos­ingh, along with Ap­peal Court Judges Pe­ter Ra­jku­mar and James Aboud, al­lowed the ap­peal of NO­VO Tech­nol­o­gy and or­dered that the Air­ports Au­thor­i­ty pay the le­gal costs of the mat­ter.

A 62-year-old HIV-pos­i­tive man, who plead­ed guilty to five counts of in­cest against his daugh­ter, was sen­tenced to 50 years in prison with hard labour. How­ev­er, he will on­ly serve ten years as the sen­tences will run con­cur­rent­ly.

A Barataria woman had to be treat­ed at hos­pi­tal, af­ter she was beat­en and robbed by four men dur­ing a home in­va­sion in the ear­ly hours of Wednes­day.

What start­ed as a re­lax­ing evening on a beach in La Brea quick­ly turned in­to a night­mare for a man and his friend af­ter they were robbed.

A Princes Town cou­ple and their two sons are now dis­placed af­ter a fire dam­aged their home on Wednes­day night, caus­ing an es­ti­mat­ed $70,000 in loss­es.

Four men were ar­rest­ed in two sep­a­rate po­lice ex­er­cis­es con­duct­ed in Pa­lo Seco and Princes Town ear­li­er this week.

Na­tion­al En­er­gy has re­ject­ed blame for Nu­trien’s shut­down of its Trinidad op­er­a­tions, say­ing the de­ci­sion “is not one for which any re­spon­si­bil­i­ty can be as­cribed to Na­tion­al En­er­gy or NGC.”

Po­lice re­cov­ered a firearm and ar­rest­ed one man dur­ing hy­brid ex­er­cis­es con­duct­ed in the North East­ern and Port-of-Spain Di­vi­sions on Tues­day.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal says talks are con­tin­u­ing with Nu­trien and oth­er users of the Point Lisas port as the Min­istry of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries works to up­date con­trac­tu­al arrange­ments.