Ral­phie Rop­er, who has been de­scribed as T&T's most want­ed man and had been on the run for al­most 15 years, was shot and killed by po­lice in Mar­aval ear­ly this morn­ing.

A 27-year-old man who was shot in El So­cor­ro on Tues­day night has suc­cumbed to his in­juries at hos­pi­tal.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley will con­vene a COVID-19 Re­sponse Meet­ing with the Min­istries of Health and Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty at 9 am to­day. He will host the vir­tu­al meet­ing from the of­fi­cial res­i­dence at Blenheim in To­ba­go.

A ma­jor in­ter­na­tion­al firearms traf­fick­ing ring was smashed by of­fi­cers of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice with the help of of­fi­cers of the Cus­toms and Ex­cise Di­vi­sion when a Tacarigua busi­ness­man was held on Mon­day night and po­lice re­cov­ered 25 firearm parts.

For­mer med­ical di­rec­tor of the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, Dr Anand Cha­toor­goon, has called on the Min­is­ter of Health to ap­point a board for the South West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty as soon as pos­si­ble.

The num­ber of COVID-19-re­lat­ed deaths and cas­es con­tin­ue to climb, as the coun­try record­ed 171 pos­i­tives and three ad­di­tion­al fa­tal­i­ties yes­ter­day. 

Health of­fi­cials in To­ba­go are re­port­ing that reg­is­tra­tions for the COVID-19 vac­cines have re­gained mo­men­tum.

Some mem­bers of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Reg­i­ment have ex­pressed con­cern that they could be “forced to take the As­trazeneca COVID-19 vac­cine” athough they do not want to.

Lo­cal ac­tivists are cel­e­brat­ing with the rest of the African di­as­po­ra, the guilty ver­dict in the Derek Chau­vin tri­al for the killing of George Floyd in Min­neapo­lis last year.

The high­est of praise, the depths of sad­ness – and a bou­quet of white and pink flow­ers in re­mem­brance, at the Sen­ate desk of late En­er­gy Min­is­ter Franklin Khan.

Rob­bery is be­lieved to be the mo­tive for the mur­der of a 76-year-old man of Ca­roni Sa­van­nah Road in Ch­agua­nas who was stand­ing out­side a Play Whe and Lot­to booth at Jai’s Bar, Ca­roni Sa­van­nah Road, Ch­agua­nas on Mon­day.

One of three men from cen­tral Trinidad, ac­cused of gang-rap­ing a Venezue­lan woman, last year, has been grant­ed bail.