A 23-year-old Venezue­lan na­tion­al was shot dead and an­oth­er Venezue­lan man wound­ed in a shoot­ing out­side a bar in Pe­nal dur­ing the ear­ly hours of Sun­day, just me­tres from the Pe­nal Po­lice Sta­tion.

Re­gion­al cor­po­ra­tions across Trinidad and To­ba­go are co­or­di­nat­ing a na­tion­wide re­lief ef­fort to as­sist com­mu­ni­ties in Venezuela af­fect­ed by a re­cent earth­quake, with emer­gency sup­plies be­ing col­lect­ed, sort­ed and pre­pared for ship­ment.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has in­ten­si­fied its com­mu­ni­ty crime-fight­ing strat­e­gy in cen­tral Trinidad, with res­i­dents of Cunu­pia rais­ing con­cerns over gang ac­tiv­i­ty, busi­ness se­cu­ri­ty and de­clin­ing po­lice vis­i­bil­i­ty dur­ing a high-lev­el en­gage­ment on Sat­ur­day.

Al­most a year af­ter po­lice of­fi­cers were de­ployed in se­lect­ed schools to ad­dress in­dis­ci­pline, La Ro­maine Sec­ondary School is re­port­ing a marked im­prove­ment in stu­dent be­hav­iour, along­side stronger aca­d­e­m­ic and co-cur­ric­u­lar per­for­mance.

Sev­er­al mem­bers of the Sil­ver Stars steel or­ches­tra were ar­rest­ed ear­ly this morn­ing fol­low­ing an al­leged con­fronta­tion with po­lice of­fi­cers dur­ing Tribe’s band launch cel­e­bra­tions.

Those were the words of grief-strick­en aunt Nan­cy Mollineau on Sun­day as she strug­gled to come to terms with the death of her 15-year-old nephew, Adin Bap­tiste, who died af­ter a crash in Moru­ga. She is now urg­ing young peo­ple to be mind­ful of the com­pa­ny they keep, warn­ing that one poor de­ci­sion can end in tragedy.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has trav­elled to Gros Islet, St Lu­cia, for the 51st Reg­u­lar Meet­ing of the Con­fer­ence of Heads of Gov­ern­ment of the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com), where a dis­pute over the reap­point­ment of the bloc’s Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al is ex­pect­ed to be a cen­tral is­sue.

Trinidad and To­ba­go is stand­ing in sol­i­dar­i­ty with Venezuela as the neigh­bour­ing coun­try mourns vic­tims of the re­cent earth­quake while al­so mark­ing the 215th an­niver­sary of its De­c­la­ra­tion of In­de­pen­dence.

The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) Seis­mic Re­search Cen­tre has con­firmed that the coastal up­lift that tore through the Gal­fa coast­line in Ce­dros last week was a re­sult of the two dead­ly twin earth­quakes that rocked Venezuela’s north­ern coast.

Out­go­ing Chair­man of the 15-mem­ber Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com) and St Kitts and Nevis Prime Min­is­ter Dr Ter­rance Drew has urged re­gion­al lead­ers to make every ef­fort to at­tend meet­ings where ma­jor de­ci­sions are tak­en, amid the on­go­ing con­tro­ver­sy sur­round­ing the reap­point­ment of Cari­com Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al Dr Car­la Bar­nett.

Con­fir­ma­tion the TTPS brawled with Sil­ver Stars pan mem­bers af­ter TRIBE's band launch around 2:00 on Sun­day morn­ing. The pan side had been hired to close the fes­tiv­i­ties.

A teenag­er died in a road traf­fic ac­ci­dent along Ed­ward Trace, Basse Terre, Moru­ga, at 3am on Sun­day.