KINGSTON, Ja­maica, Apr 7, CMC -The In­de­pen­dent Com­mis­sion of In­ves­ti­ga­tions (IN­DE­COM) says 12 peo­ple have been shot and killed by po­lice over the last six days, in­clud­ing 10 record­ed over the long East­er week­end.

Unit­ed States Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump has sug­gest­ed that the US will de­stroy Iran­ian “civil­i­sa­tion” if Tehran does not open the Strait of Hor­muz and sub­mit to his terms.

A 34-year-old man was shot dead, and two oth­ers, in­clud­ing his preg­nant girl­friend, were wound­ed dur­ing an ear­ly morn­ing at­tack at Moo­nan Road, Waller­field.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has dou­bled down on her crit­i­cism of the pro­ce­dure utilised by Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com) Heads of Gov­ern­ment to reap­point Dr Car­la Bar­nett to a sec­ond term as Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al. 

Min­is­ter of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Khadi­jah Ameen has ac­cused the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) of com­plain­ing about the Gov­ern­ment’s pro­grammes be­cause they are no longer ben­e­fit­ing from state pro­grammes.

Eleven in­di­vid­u­als have been charged fol­low­ing an in­ter­cep­tion by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Coast Guard (TTCG) off the Erin coast on Fri­day.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) said mul­ti­ple an­ti-crime op­er­a­tions con­duct­ed over the East­er week­end led to sev­er­al ar­rests for am­mu­ni­tion-re­lat­ed of­fences in the South West­ern Di­vi­sion.

A bill for Trinidad and To­ba­go to work with the Unit­ed States for more ef­fec­tive bor­der se­cu­ri­ty is ex­pect­ed to be pre­sent­ed to Par­lia­ment on Fri­day.

While it was a rainy East­er Mon­day for many, some homes and res­i­dents in Phase Four, Beetham Gar­dens, were drenched for more than 12 hours by cas­cad­ing wa­ter from a Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) pipeline, rather than burst­ing clouds.

The T&T Na­tion­al Nurs­es As­so­ci­a­tion (TTNNA) has claimed a ca­su­al­ty in its on­go­ing in­dus­tri­al re­la­tions bat­tle with the North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA). 

Sec­re­tary of Tourism Zor­isha Hack­ett is say­ing a heart­felt thank you to Trinida­di­ans, as she de­clared do­mes­tic tourism boom­ing for the East­er week­end.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) says it is man­ag­ing the sup­ply of wa­ter in To­ba­go de­spite chal­lenges dur­ing the cru­cial East­er pe­ri­od.