The T&T Po­lice Ser­vice So­cial and Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion (TTPSS­WA) has come out in sup­port of the de­ci­sion by the Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP) to fire 17 po­lice of­fi­cers.

In March this year, At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie warned that threats against the Prime Min­is­ter, in­clud­ing those post­ed on­line, will be treat­ed se­ri­ous­ly un­der the law.

Judges ap­proved 314 war­rants to in­ter­cept com­mu­ni­ca­tions in Trinidad and To­ba­go be­tween 2020 and May 2026, ac­cord­ing to in­for­ma­tion ob­tained by Guardian Me­dia through the Free­dom of In­for­ma­tion Act (FOIA) re­quest to the ju­di­cia­ry.

The de­ten­tion of peo­ple un­der the Pre­ven­ta­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDO), in­clud­ing high-pro­file busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed, has re­opened decades-old claims about poor prison con­di­tions, al­leged weak med­ical sup­port and a sys­tem re­port­ed­ly strug­gling to safe­ly man­age the peo­ple it holds.

The man­hunt for es­caped pris­on­er Rob­by Khadoo in­ten­si­fied yes­ter­day as se­cu­ri­ty agen­cies, in­clud­ing the T&T De­fence Force (TTDF), con­tin­ued the search to re­cap­ture him.

Two peo­ple lost their lives in sep­a­rate road traf­fic ac­ci­dents with­in 12 hours, with the lat­est crash oc­cur­ring near the San­ta Philli­pa Bridge along the Ca­paro Val­ley Bras­so Road yes­ter­day morn­ing.

The Cen­tral Bank of Trinidad and To­ba­go has clar­i­fied that au­tho­rised fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tions are legal­ly per­mit­ted to ex­port US cur­ren­cy un­der ex­ist­ing laws, as in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue in­to the seizure of US$2 mil­lion in cash linked to NCB Mer­chant Bank at Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port.

Polic­ing has typ­i­cal­ly been con­sid­ered a de­mand­ing and out­right dan­ger­ous job, but more peo­ple are be­ing asked to an­swer the call to serve as the TTPS seeks to grow its ranks over the next five years.

Pro­fes­sor Ra­jen­dra Ram­lo­gan is urg­ing that the reap­point­ment of Cari­com Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al Dr Car­la Bar­nett be tak­en to the Caribbean Court of Jus­tice.

The re­cent wave of busi­ness clo­sures, pro­duc­tion sus­pen­sions and re­struc­tur­ing an­nounce­ments have sparked con­cern among econ­o­mists and busi­ness own­ers, who urge that T&T pay clos­er at­ten­tion to re­tain­ing pro­duc­tive in­vest­ment and de­vel­op­ing new in­dus­tries to re­place those that are be­ing lost.

The Gov­ern­ment’s re­view of diplo­mat­ic pass­ports con­tin­ues to stir po­lit­i­cal de­bate, with Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar con­firm­ing that for­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley will al­so be asked to sur­ren­der his diplo­mat­ic pass­port. Row­ley, who is cur­rent­ly out of the coun­try, said he would re­spond to the Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion up­on his re­turn.

Po­lice ar­rest­ed a sus­pect and seized a mag­a­zine is­sued to the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice as well as $19,000 in cash be­lieved to be stolen from a ve­hi­cle in Mara­bel­la on Fri­day.