A 72-year-old Cunu­pia man ac­cused of stab­bing his po­lice of­fi­cer daugh­ter while in­tox­i­cat­ed has been or­dered to un­der­go a psy­chi­atric eval­u­a­tion.

East­ern Di­vi­sion po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing a sus­pect­ed homi­cide, af­ter a man was found shot dead in Ve­ga de Oropouche on Mon­day night.

Armed ban­dits struck mul­ti­ple homes across Cen­tral Trinidad in a string of ear­ly-morn­ing in­va­sions on Tues­day, leav­ing be­hind ter­ri­fied fam­i­lies who were robbed of cash, valu­ables, and, in one case, a ve­hi­cle.

Com­mu­ni­ty ac­tivist and gen­er­al man­ag­er of the ROOTS Foun­da­tion, Mti­ma Sol­wazi, says re­cent in­ci­dents in which chil­dren have been mur­dered, wound­ed or nar­row­ly es­caped gun­fire point to a break­down of com­mu­ni­ty-lev­el prin­ci­ples.

A 44-year-old woman from St Joseph was shot dead af­ter be­ing lured out­side her home on Wednes­day af­ter­noon.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has an­nounced that a diplo­mat­ic del­e­ga­tion will soon trav­el to Venezuela to en­sure Trinidad and To­ba­go se­cures its “just share” of cross bor­der oil and gas re­sources, sig­nalling a re­newed push to ad­vance stalled en­er­gy projects.

The Ja­maica Gov­ern­ment says it is in­ves­ti­gat­ing re­ports that stu­dents are be­ing ex­posed to sex by Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa vic­tims who are still shel­ter­ing in some schools.

To end the war with the Unit­ed States and Is­rael, Iran is de­mand­ing the right to col­lect tolls in the Strait of Hor­muz as a pre­con­di­tion for re­open­ing the wa­ter­way vi­tal to world oil sup­plies.

De­spite a chal­leng­ing eco­nom­ic cli­mate, en­tre­pre­neurs in Tu­na­puna and the sur­round­ing ar­eas are be­ing en­cour­aged to pri­ori­tise in­no­va­tion and ex­pan­sion to re­main com­pet­i­tive.

Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has ex­pressed shock and sad­ness over the killing of busi­ness­man Steve Ghany Ju­nior, re­veal­ing that he had spent time with him just days be­fore his death.

Founder and Pres­i­dent of the Caribbean Risk Man­age­ment Acad­e­my (CR­MA), Ken Hack­shaw, is urg­ing busi­ness own­ers to con­tin­ue mon­i­tor­ing events in the Mid­dle East, warn­ing that the Iran war will con­tin­ue to have a neg­a­tive im­pact on T&T and the wider Caribbean re­gion.

Ex­ec­u­tive Di­rec­tor of the Caribbean Cen­tre for Re­new­able En­er­gy and En­er­gy Ef­fi­cien­cy (CCREEE), Dr Mo­ham­mad Nagdee, has said the po­ten­tial re­open­ing of the Pointe-a-Pierre re­fin­ery could prove ben­e­fi­cial for T&T.