The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s Laven­tille East/Mor­vant con­stituen­cy ex­ec­u­tive wants MP Adri­an Leonce to re­con­sid­er his de­ci­sion not to re­con­test the seat for gen­er­al elec­tion.

Days af­ter a woman and four chil­dren es­caped se­ri­ous in­jury when a bul­let fired by a po­lice­man try­ing to sub­due a sus­pect struck their car, the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice says it will re­view its Use of Force Pol­i­cy.

The Joint Trade Union Move­ment’s (JTUM) planned protest for Sat­ur­day has been giv­en a nu­mer­i­cal boost, as the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) and Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) mem­bers have pledged their at­ten­dance.

The West In­dies Group of Uni­ver­si­ty Teach­ers (WIGUT) is still await­ing com­mu­ni­ca­tion from the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies’ (UWI) St Au­gus­tine Cam­pus re­gard­ing the next steps in their long-stand­ing salary ne­go­ti­a­tion im­passe.

Crim­i­nol­o­gist Dr Randy Seep­er­sad and shad­ow na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal are both urg­ing the TTPS not to boast about a re­duc­tion in mur­ders just yet.

Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (DCP) Ju­nior Ben­jamin says the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) will be de­ploy­ing more of­fi­cers at malls and oth­er shop­ping ar­eas dur­ing the busy Christ­mas sea­son.

More than a month af­ter sur­viv­ing a hit on his life, a weld­ing con­trac­tor was gunned down at his San Fer­nan­do home on Tues­day night.

A vic­tim of a rob­bery is threat­en­ing to sue the State af­ter a de­tailed po­lice re­port of the in­ci­dent was “leaked” on so­cial me­dia.

Less than 24 hours af­ter the de­com­pos­ing body of a miss­ing man was found off a precipice in Cau­ra, an­oth­er body was dis­cov­ered in the dis­trict.

A 54-year-old man from St James has sued the State over be­ing ar­rest­ed and charged af­ter he was seen walk­ing near a stolen car that was parked in his com­mu­ni­ty. 

A 38-year-old man from cen­tral Trinidad has been freed of rob­bing a se­cu­ri­ty guard of her firearm and bul­let­proof vest due to re­peat­ed de­lays in pros­e­cut­ing his case. 

That was the chant that rang out­side the ple­nary halls as the Unit­ed Na­tions Con­fer­ence of Par­ties (COP29) went in­to its fi­nal hours and ne­go­tia­tors strug­gled to find com­mon ground on cli­mate fi­nance.