A man want­ed for sev­er­al rob­beries in To­ba­go es­caped po­lice af­ter they at­tempt­ed to in­ter­cept his ve­hi­cle in Port-of-Spain on Sat­ur­day morn­ing.

A 21-year-old Matelot man is in po­lice cus­tody af­ter a joint team of po­lice, sol­diers and Coast Guard of­fi­cers raid­ed a for­est en­camp­ment and mar­i­jua­na field on Fri­day af­ter­noon.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing af­ter a re­tired po­lice­man opened fire on three men he be­lieved were ban­dits at his Bon Air West home ear­ly Sun­day morn­ing.

At 65, when many are prepar­ing to close the chap­ter on their work­ing lives, Jear­lean John has writ­ten a new one—step­ping in­to one of the na­tion’s high­est of­fices as Act­ing Prime Min­is­ter of Trinidad and To­ba­go dur­ing Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s ab­sence.

With Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar away on a six-day of­fi­cial vis­it to New York for the Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly—the first since the April 28 Gen­er­al Elec­tion—Jear­lean John has been ap­point­ed Act­ing Prime Min­is­ter. Known for her ex­ten­sive ca­reer in pol­i­tics and pub­lic ser­vice, John now as­sumes re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for man­ag­ing the coun­try’s af­fairs in the PM’s ab­sence, a move that has drawn at­ten­tion from politi­cians and an­a­lysts alike.

The Na­tion­al Sec­ondary Schools En­tre­pre­neur­ship Com­pe­ti­tion (NSSEC) is cel­e­brat­ing nine years of spark­ing big ideas in class­rooms and turn­ing stu­dents in­to busi­ness thinkers. This year, 128 teams are tak­ing part, putting their cre­ativ­i­ty, prob­lem-solv­ing and team­work to the test as they dis­cov­er what it takes to build a busi­ness from the ground up.

This coun­try has se­cured crit­i­cal sup­port fol­low­ing high-lev­el meet­ings at the Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly, in­clud­ing a grant, part of which will be used to fund ad­di­tion­al fire ten­ders for un­der-re­sourced sta­tions, as well as sep­a­rate aid to re­fur­bish the soon-to-open Cou­va Chil­dren’s Hos­pi­tal.

For­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has seem­ing­ly tak­en a po­lit­i­cal jab at Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar fol­low­ing her speech at the Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly.

“I am sor­ry for every­thing I did, girl. I am sor­ry for all I put you through,” a dev­as­tat­ed Bhag­wan­daye Ramharack cried, gaz­ing at her daugh­ter Mari­ah Seenath’s body ly­ing in a cof­fin yes­ter­day. “I wish you could come back, girl,” she sobbed. “I wish you could come back to me.”

Past and present stake­hold­ers in the crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem agree that Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro has per­formed well dur­ing his first 100 days in of­fice as head of the TTPS and are hope­ful that he can main­tain this mo­men­tum through­out his three-year term.

Less than 100 me­tres from where Lalchan Bod­ie lives in Bam­boo Vil­lage on the Ce­dros coast­line, the rem­nants of what was once a hilly vil­lage over­look­ing Colum­bus Bay are a dai­ly re­minder of a once dark day in the com­mu­ni­ty. As we dri­ve deep­er in­to the vil­lage, we quick­ly ap­proach a dead end. The road comes to an abrupt end as you ap­proach a cliff over­look­ing the sea. Bod­ie emerges from the bush­es, hav­ing fin­ished tend­ing to his goats.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has un­der­scored the im­por­tance of due process as the Unit­ed States con­tin­ues its ef­forts to com­bat drug traf­fick­ing in the Caribbean.