Port Au­thor­i­ty work­ers went back to work yes­ter­day,  al­beit “dis­cour­aged and de­mo­ti­vat­ed,” one work­er de­scribed it, as they com­plied with an In­dus­tri­al Court or­der, pre­vent­ing them from tak­ing any fur­ther in­dus­tri­al ac­tion. 

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) is cel­e­brat­ing a le­gal vic­to­ry af­ter the Court of Ap­peal grant­ed leave for the bill of costs to be de­ter­mined against the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) in its 2015 elec­tion pe­ti­tion. 

Five po­lice of­fi­cers from the North­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force were ac­quit­ted of charges re­lat­ed to ex­tor­tion and mis­be­hav­iour in pub­lic of­fice at the Port-of-Spain High Court yes­ter­day. The court dis­charged the of­fi­cers af­ter the pros­e­cu­tion re­peat­ed­ly failed to present suf­fi­cient ev­i­dence to sup­port the al­le­ga­tions.

Shock, con­cern and em­bar­rass­ment linger among gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials af­ter cor­rup­tion charges against sev­en po­lice of­fi­cers were dropped.

A po­lice of­fi­cer who was ac­cused of as­sault­ing his wife and teenage son has been found not guilty af­ter a tri­al.

Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty, Kei­th Scot­land, has no up­dates on the sta­tus of the Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion’s (PolSC) Pub­lic Trust, Con­fi­dence, and Sat­is­fac­tion Sur­vey, which was in­tend­ed to as­sess the ef­fec­tive­ness of the Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice and Deputy Com­mis­sion­ers. The sur­vey had been sched­uled to run from Sep­tem­ber 17 to Oc­to­ber 8.

Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Fitzger­ald Hinds be­lieves that the ad­di­tion of two drones to the ar­se­nal of the na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty ap­pa­ra­tus will go a long way to­wards curb­ing crime. He said this yes­ter­day at the min­istry’s Aber­crom­by Street head­quar­ters, when the Unit­ed Na­tions Of­fice on Drugs and Crime (UN­ODC) hand­ed over the de­vices.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary Fos­ter Cum­mings is seek­ing to dis­pel con­cerns that there is bad blood be­tween him­self and par­ty chair­man Stu­art Young.

Stu­dents and staff at Mal­ick Sec­ondary School were evac­u­at­ed yes­ter­day af­ter a fire broke out on the com­pound.

Pres­i­dent of the Fyz­abad Cham­ber of Com­merce (FCC) An­janie Jairam is call­ing for the ur­gent de­ploy­ment of joint na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty pa­trols to ad­dress es­ca­lat­ing crime in the com­mu­ni­ty. Her plea fol­lows the mur­der of busi­ness­man Muath Nas­sar, 49, who was gunned down while work­ing at his food out­let on Fyz­abad Road Tues­day morn­ing.

Two days af­ter po­lice killed one man and in­jured an­oth­er dur­ing a rob­bery at­tempt in Aranguez, se­nior po­lice of­fi­cials in the North East­ern Di­vi­sion (NED) have is­sued a warn­ing to crim­i­nals to stay out of the dis­trict or deal with the con­se­quences.

His bloat­ed and de­com­pos­ing body was spot­ted among the reeds, wedged un­der some bro­ken tree branch­es in the vicin­i­ty of the Ca­roni Riv­er Bridge, South­ern Main Road, Ca­roni, around 1.45 pm.