The head of the An­ti-Ex­tor­tion Unit, ACP Richard Smith, says one ma­jor gang is be­hind in­ci­dents of ex­tor­tion in Cen­tral and North Cen­tral dis­tricts.

While the world was anx­ious to know who would be­come the 47th pres­i­dent of the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca, many uni­ver­si­ty stu­dents re­mained un­fazed by the out­come.

While no one could pre­dict the out­come of the Unit­ed States pres­i­den­tial elec­tion yes­ter­day with cer­tain­ty, some ex­perts in the en­er­gy sec­tor say T&T could be poised for change as it re­lates to our re­la­tion­ship with Venezuela.

Yes­ter­day, Unit­ed States cit­i­zens took to the polls with the out­come of their vote des­tined to cre­ate his­to­ry as the De­moc­rats’ Ka­mala Har­ris was poised to be­come the coun­try’s first fe­male pres­i­dent, and Don­ald Trump, the Re­pub­li­can nom­i­nee, was po­si­tioned to be the sec­ond pres­i­dent to serve non-con­sec­u­tive terms. 

A 42-year-old busi­ness­woman in­tends to take le­gal ac­tion against two den­tists af­ter a tool ac­ci­den­tal­ly slipped down her throat dur­ing a pro­ce­dure, re­sult­ing in her hav­ing to un­der­go surgery.

A for­mer THA sec­re­tary lost his law­suit over be­ing fired as a spe­cial ad­vis­er to Sports Min­is­ter Sham­fa Cud­joe al­most two months af­ter he took up the po­si­tion.

Dig­i­cel (Trinidad & To­ba­go) has con­firmed that its Ex­pe­ri­ence Store in Port of Spain was robbed, with fake couri­ers mak­ing off “with a sum of cash”.

Amer­i­can vot­ers are fac­ing a stark choice be­tween Re­pub­li­can pres­i­den­tial nom­i­nee Don­ald Trump and De­mo­c­ra­t­ic pres­i­den­tial nom­i­nee Ka­mala Har­ris, both of whom of­fer dras­ti­cal­ly dif­fer­ent tem­pera­ments and vi­sions for the coun­try.

A Curepe man who was caught with non-reg­u­la­tion tint on his ve­hi­cle, has been grant­ed own bail in the sum of $95,000 by a Mas­ter of the High Court, af­ter be­ing charged with two counts of ut­ter­ing a forged doc­u­ment and two counts of pos­ses­sion of forged doc­u­ments.

Court of Ap­peal Judge Mark Mo­hammed is en­cour­ag­ing cit­i­zens to not be afraid to speak out when they wit­ness mis­con­duct. 

The Down­town Own­ers and Mer­chants As­so­ci­a­tion (DO­MA) is the lat­est busi­ness or­gan­i­sa­tion call­ing for a end to the in­dus­tri­al ac­tion cur­rent­ly tak­ing place at the Port of Port of Spain.

East­ern Di­vi­sion po­lice say they have ar­rest­ed a sus­pect in con­nec­tion with a re­port of lar­ce­ny from the per­son that oc­curred on last Thurs­day.