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.

As po­lice con­tin­ued their search yes­ter­day for two re­main­ing sus­pects linked to home in­va­sions in parts of Cunu­pia, res­i­dents said they felt more at ease amid fre­quent pa­trols and height­ened se­cu­ri­ty ac­tiv­i­ty in the com­mu­ni­ty.

Res­i­dents of Mara­cas, St Joseph, showed their ap­pre­ci­a­tion for key fig­ures in their com­mu­ni­ty dur­ing a spe­cial Mass at St Michael’s RC Church, Llu­en­go, yes­ter­day morn­ing.

A Siparia fam­i­ly is griev­ing the sud­den death of a re­tiree who was killed in a crash just hours af­ter telling rel­a­tives he was head­ing to a steel­pan event in Point Fortin for Bor­ough Day cel­e­bra­tions.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Man­u­fac­tur­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTMA) Moth­er’s Day Pop-Up Shop drew large crowds at the Cen­tre of Ex­cel­lence in Ma­coya over the week­end, with or­gan­is­ers say­ing the event has al­ready out­grown the venue due to over­whelm­ing de­mand.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has pushed back against Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, say­ing she has no moral au­thor­i­ty to ad­vise her on in­ter­nal par­ty mat­ters, as she de­fend­ed her de­ci­sion to stage a walk­out from Par­lia­ment on Fri­day.

The clo­sure of sev­er­al Caribbean me­dia hous­es has high­light­ed the ur­gent need to strength­en sus­tain­able busi­ness mod­els as jour­nal­ism across the re­gion faces mount­ing pres­sure on mul­ti­ple fronts.

Crim­i­nol­o­gists have praised po­lice for what they de­scribed as a de­ci­sive show of force in Cunu­pia, where a home in­va­sion es­ca­lat­ed in­to a chase and shootout that left four sus­pects dead and two oth­ers in cus­tody.

Flow rolled in­to Ce­dros with a clear pitch to close the dig­i­tal gap and bring op­por­tu­ni­ty with­in reach.

Man­ches­ter Unit­ed great Alex Fer­gu­son was tak­en to the hos­pi­tal af­ter feel­ing un­well ahead of his for­mer team’s Pre­mier League game against Liv­er­pool on Sun­day.