The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice is seek­ing the pub­lic’s as­sis­tance in lo­cat­ing 69-year-old El­rick Lewis of Thom­saine Street, Laven­tille.

Pa­tri­ot­ic Front po­lit­i­cal leader Mick­ela Pan­day is crit­i­cis­ing the Gov­ern­ment’s ap­proach to crime, ar­gu­ing that re­peat­ed States of Emer­gency do not amount to a na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty plan.

The Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go Lim­it­ed (NGC) says it did not spon­sor a con­cert held on Sat­ur­day at the Queen’s Park Oval, de­spite claims cir­cu­lat­ing on so­cial me­dia.

Three sus­pects are in cus­tody fol­low­ing the mur­der of 44-year-old Sean Parisi­enne in Scar­bor­ough on Fri­day night.

A 59-year-old se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cer was kid­napped, as­sault­ed and left un­con­scious along a road­way in Siparia ear­ly Sat­ur­day morn­ing.

The Pe­nal/Debe Taxi Dri­vers As­so­ci­a­tion has in­tro­duced new mea­sures aimed at ad­dress­ing per­sis­tent com­plaints from com­muters about fare in­con­sis­ten­cies along its routes.

A Dutch cruise ship with near­ly 150 peo­ple aboard, in­clud­ing 17 Amer­i­cans, was wait­ing for help off the coast of Cape Verde in the At­lantic Ocean on Mon­day af­ter a sus­pect­ed out­break of the rare han­tavirus killed three pas­sen­gers and left at least three oth­ers se­ri­ous­ly ill, the World Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion and the ship’s op­er­a­tor said.

For­mer New York City May­or Rudolph Giu­liani is hos­pi­tal­ized in crit­i­cal but sta­ble con­di­tion, his spokesper­son said Sun­day, days af­ter the Re­pub­li­can hoarse­ly told his talk show au­di­ence that his voice was “a lit­tle un­der the weath­er.”

As Trinidad and To­ba­go heads in­to what some of­fi­cials ex­pect to be an ac­tive rainy and hur­ri­cane sea­son, Min­is­ter of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Khadi­jah Ameen has launched a month-long na­tion­al pre­pared­ness cam­paign.

As the Gov­ern­ment in­ten­si­fies its fight against crime through State of Emer­gency mea­sures, polic­ing strate­gies and leg­isla­tive re­form, one of the coun­try’s most crit­i­cal crime-gen­er­at­ing en­vi­ron­ments—the prison sys­tem—con­tin­ues to op­er­ate un­der se­vere strain. Ex­perts warn that with­out ur­gent in­ter­ven­tion, it risks fu­elling the very crim­i­nal­i­ty au­thor­i­ties are try­ing to con­tain.

Four months af­ter walk­ing out of the Gold­en Grove Prison a free man, Rod­ney Davis is ask­ing not for sym­pa­thy, but for a sec­ond chance to be­come a pro­duc­tive mem­ber of so­ci­ety.

Beach­front Jazz trans­formed in­to a live­ly par­ty on Sat­ur­day night, with pa­trons singing along and danc­ing in­to the ear­ly hours at the Mag­dale­na Grand Beach and Golf Re­sort in Low­lands.