To­ba­go’s mur­der count hit an­oth­er record yes­ter­day morn­ing when a fa­ther of one be­came the is­land’s 24th mur­der vic­tim.

Ahead of the gen­er­al elec­tions, the Move­ment for So­cial Jus­tice (MSJ) has re­sumed its Cit­i­zens’ As­sem­bly, tak­ing its cam­paign to Preysal over the week­end.

Kan­ga­roo Jack, the red kan­ga­roo at the Em­per­or Val­ley Zoo whose ema­ci­at­ed ap­pear­ance sparked so­cial me­dia out­rage ear­li­er this year, has died.

There is a need to uni­fy the coun­try to ad­dress crime, says out­spo­ken Sev­enth Day Ad­ven­tist pas­tor Clive Dot­tin who is wor­ried that the up­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tion will fur­ther di­vide the coun­try and crip­ple an­ti-crime ef­forts.

A day af­ter at­tor­neys for one of two men held in con­nec­tion to the rob­bery of Health Min­is­ter Ter­rence Deyals­ingh threat­ened to sue Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher, the man has been re­leased from cus­tody.

Po­lice said Shaquille “Frame” Trot­man of Hamil­ton Trace, Old Bay Road, Mara­cas was killed around 7 pm while lim­ing with friends.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Coast Guard (TTCG) says it is aware that one of its mem­bers is cur­rent­ly in the cus­tody of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice, as­sist­ing them in an on­go­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tion. 

Po­lice have ar­rest­ed sev­er­al peo­ple and seized nar­cotics dur­ing op­er­a­tions over the past 24 hours. Be­tween mid­night and 4:00 a.m. on 22 Sep­tem­ber 2024, of­fi­cers con­duct­ed a rov­ing ex­er­cise. Dur­ing this time, they ar­rest­ed a 26-year-old man from Quar­ry Road, San Juan, for dri­ving while dis­qual­i­fied and with­out a valid in­sur­ance cer­tifi­cate.

A drunk dri­ver has been ar­rest­ed af­ter in­jur­ing a young child at a pop­u­lar beach yes­ter­day. Around 5:45 p.m., a wit­ness at the Clifton Hill Beach Fa­cil­i­ty saw a sil­ver-grey Nis­san La­tio be­ing dri­ven er­rat­i­cal­ly. The ve­hi­cle crossed the shore­line and struck a 6-year-old boy.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, the vic­tim was sell­ing at her fam­i­ly’s mi­ni-mart along New Va­len­cia Av­enue when the two men en­tered around 3:45 p.m.

The mur­der toll in To­ba­go con­tin­ues to rise, with the lat­est vic­tim, Nicholas Mitchell, shot and killed in Ar­gyle last night.

Po­lice are search­ing for two men who robbed a 93-year-old woman and then drove over her foot as they es­caped.