A home­less woman who was beat­en, im­pris­oned and raped for al­leged­ly steal­ing a cell­phone had to be hos­pi­talised fol­low­ing an in­ci­dent on Mon­day (Car­ni­val Mon­day).

A po­lice of­fi­cer with less than a year of ser­vice re­mains in crit­i­cal con­di­tion at the Mt Hope Hos­pi­tal af­ter falling from the up­per lev­el of the San­gre Grande Po­lice Sta­tion.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing two dar­ing bur­glar­ies in Siparia and Bar­rack­pore, which led to thou­sands of dol­lars in cash, jew­ellery, and equip­ment stolen over Thurs­day night and Fri­day morn­ing.

Po­lice be­lieve they foiled a planned re­tal­ia­to­ry at­tack when they seized a high-pow­ered ri­fle dur­ing an in­tel­li­gence-dri­ven op­er­a­tion in Cou­va on Thurs­day.

A for­mer prison of­fi­cer has won his law­suit against the Pub­lic Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PSC) over be­ing de­nied retroac­tive pro­mo­tion af­ter he re­tired.  

One sus­pect was ar­rest­ed and three firearms and quan­ti­ties of am­mu­ni­tion seized dur­ing Op­er­a­tion Se­cure D’ Vibes ex­er­cis­es this week.

One man was ar­rest­ed and quan­ti­ties of cannabis seized dur­ing an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es in the Cen­tral and North­ern Di­vi­sions on Fri­day.

A Po­lice Con­sta­ble at­tached to the San­gre Grande Po­lice Sta­tion is ward­ed at hos­pi­tal fol­low­ing an in­ci­dent at the sta­tion on Fri­day, ac­cord­ing to the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice.

As con­cerns es­ca­late over the dis­rup­tion to the car­go ser­vice on the seabridge, To­ba­go busi­ness­es have suf­fered yet an­oth­er com­mer­cial blow.

The T&T Cham­ber of Busi­ness and Com­merce has warned To­bag­o­ni­ans to brace for po­ten­tial price in­creas­es, fol­low­ing a five-week dis­rup­tion to car­go ser­vice on the seabridge.

The price of eggs from To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly-man­aged farms in To­ba­go has more than dou­bled.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has dis­missed con­cerns sur­round­ing the US-sup­plied radar sys­tem at the ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port, say­ing on­ly the Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), drug traf­fick­ers and vi­o­lent gangs are “ob­sessed” with the is­sue.