Po­lice de­stroyed ap­prox­i­mate­ly 1,800 cannabis trees with an es­ti­mat­ed street val­ue of $2.43 mil­lion dur­ing an in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tion in Moru­ga on Thurs­day.

The Min­istry of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty’s Counter Traf­fick­ing Unit (CTU) says it is re­view­ing al­le­ga­tions con­tained in a Guardian in­ter­view with a man who claimed he op­er­at­ed a hu­man traf­fick­ing ring in Trinidad and To­ba­go for years.

Oprah Win­frey says she will close the school for un­der­priv­i­leged girls she set up in South Africa two decades ago at the end of next year.

The Pan Amer­i­can Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion (PA­HO) Fri­day called on coun­tries in the Amer­i­c­as, in­clud­ing the Caribbean, to strength­en pro­tec­tions for fam­i­lies against the grow­ing dig­i­tal mar­ket­ing of breast-milk sub­sti­tutes and oth­er prod­ucts that may un­der­mine breast­feed­ing.

A se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cer is in a sta­ble con­di­tion af­ter be­ing in­jured in an ac­ci­den­tal firearm dis­charge at the Min­istry of Works and In­fra­struc­ture build­ing in Port of Spain on Wednes­day evening.

Shayana Ruiz was am­bushed and stabbed in the back, face, chest and hand dur­ing a dead­ly at­tack af­ter she went to col­lect an out­stand­ing debt of $4,500 from her for­mer boyfriend on Wednes­day.

Two aunts of mur­dered po­lice of­fi­cer Romell Dou­glas be­lieve that he was lured and killed over a dis­pute for mon­ey aris­ing out of a car ac­ci­dent. How­ev­er, they want his re­main­ing killer/s to face the death penal­ty.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says she was deeply af­fect­ed by re­cent racist at­tacks di­rect­ed at her, not be­cause of the per­son­al in­sults, but be­cause they re­flect­ed a loss of hu­man­i­ty that threat­ens Trinidad and To­ba­go’s so­cial fab­ric.

With busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed, his wife Genevieve, and her 69-year-old aunt Star Sab­ga no longer in prison, there is no longer the same need for their law­suits over their de­ten­tions for a pur­port­ed plot to as­sas­si­nate key Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials to be de­ter­mined ur­gent­ly.

Jen­nifer John­son-Car­roll, US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s nom­i­nee for the post of am­bas­sador to Trinidad and To­ba­go, says the re­peat­ed States of Emer­gency “doesn’t bode well” for T&T’s on­go­ing bat­tle against crime.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has dis­missed what she de­scribed as ef­forts by “race grifters” and oth­ers to spread racist pro­pa­gan­da, urg­ing sup­port­ers not to be dis­tract­ed by in­flam­ma­to­ry com­men­tary.

Crim­i­nal Bar As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent Is­rael Ra­jah-Khan, SC, has called on judges to treat for­mer at­tor­ney gen­er­al Faris Al-Rawi’s pub­lic com­ments on the Hadeed pre­ven­tive de­ten­tion case as con­tempt of court, ac­cus­ing him of mis­rep­re­sent­ing the Privy Coun­cil’s po­si­tion and dis­cussing mat­ters that re­main be­fore the courts.