While the night had its mo­ments of frus­tra­tion, renowned gospel singer Kirk Franklin de­liv­ered an elec­tri­fy­ing and high-en­er­gy per­for­mance for fans in Trinidad.

Gun­men opened fire on the home of the son of mur­dered busi­ness­man Dan­ny Guer­ra at Guy’s Trace, North Oropouche, on Sat­ur­day evening, leav­ing res­i­dents shocked and con­cerned.

One man was ar­rest­ed and quan­ti­ties of drugs and cash seized dur­ing a State of Emer­gency an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion in the San Juan dis­trict yes­ter­day morn­ing.

One man was ar­rest­ed and a quan­ti­ty of cannabis seized dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in the South West­ern Di­vi­sion yes­ter­day.

A sus­pect­ed ar­son at­tack on the Sa­cred Choice of Heav­en Mt Lebanon Spir­i­tu­al Bap­tist Church in Clax­ton Bay has left mem­bers of the con­gre­ga­tion shak­en but res­olute af­ter quick ac­tion by fire­fight­ers pre­vent­ed ma­jor dam­age on Fri­day night.

Her­itage sites in Trinidad and To­ba­go must be pre­served to safe­guard the coun­try’s his­to­ry, ac­cord­ing to vis­it­ing ar­chae­ol­o­gist Pro­fes­sor Mark Hauser, who is lead­ing doc­u­men­ta­tion work at the his­toric Cedar Grove Es­tate in South Trinidad.

Re­ports in­di­cate that around 2:40 am, Layne was lim­ing at a bar in Boodooville when he had an al­ter­ca­tion with an­oth­er man and struck him on the head with a bot­tle. He was sub­se­quent­ly put out of the bar but re­mained out­side.

In­ter­na­tion­al hote­lier Hilton is prepar­ing to with­draw its brand from the State-owned prop­er­ty af­ter the Gov­ern­ment failed to un­der­take ex­ten­sive cap­i­tal up­grades—es­ti­mat­ed to be over US$600,000 —re­quired to main­tain the fa­cil­i­ty to in­ter­na­tion­al op­er­at­ing stan­dards, ac­cord­ing to lease agree­ments, reg­is­tered records, pro­cure­ment doc­u­ments, union cor­re­spon­dence and in­dus­try analy­sis re­viewed by Guardian Me­dia In­ves­ti­ga­tions.

The Unit­ed States is as­sist­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go with the de­vel­op­ment of in­fra­struc­ture to com­ple­ment an ad­vanced pas­sen­ger screen­ing sys­tem that will al­low au­thor­i­ties to iden­ti­fy po­ten­tial threats even be­fore trav­ellers ar­rive in the coun­try.

De­spite re­ports in in­ter­na­tion­al me­dia that a tanker car­ry­ing fu­el orig­i­nal­ly ‌bound for Cu­ba on Fri­day changed its des­ti­na­tion to Trinidad and To­ba­go, ship track­ers have now stat­ed the ves­sel is head­ed to Venezuela.

Three po­lice of­fi­cers have been de­tained as part of an on­go­ing probe in­to al­leged crim­i­nal con­duct.

Spir­i­tu­al Bap­tists claim they were de­nied ap­proval to host a planned march in San Fer­nan­do, ini­tial­ly be­liev­ing the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE) may have been a fac­tor.