Po­lice of­fi­cers in Port of Spain nabbed a sus­pect af­ter a road traf­fic ac­ci­dent turned in­to a chase on Sat­ur­day.

With the re­view com­ing up, Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Kadi­jah Ameen, who is fi­nal­is­ing sub­mis­sions for the Fi­nance Min­istry, will be meet­ing on Wednes­day with re­gion­al cor­po­ra­tions on their re­spec­tive po­si­tions.

Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der is urg­ing the pub­lic to do their part in se­cur­ing their com­mu­ni­ties by part­ner­ing with law en­force­ment, not­ing that safe neigh­bour­hoods can­not be achieved if cit­i­zens with­hold po­ten­tial­ly life-sav­ing in­for­ma­tion.

An ar­gu­ment out­side a Barataria bar ear­ly on Sat­ur­day morn­ing led to a stab­bing where one man was killed and three oth­ers wound­ed.

Ro­man Catholic Arch­bish­op Ja­son Gor­don has chal­lenged cit­i­zens to live clos­er to the res­ur­rec­tion light. His state­ment came as he de­liv­ered his East­er homi­ly at the Cathe­dral of the Im­mac­u­late Con­cep­tion in down­town Port-of-Spain yes­ter­day.

As the na­tion con­fronts sev­er­al so­ci­etal chal­lenges, dean and rec­tor of the Holy Trin­i­ty Cathe­dral, Rev­erend Shel­ley-Ann Tenia, says church­es must re­turn to work­ing to­geth­er. She made the com­ment as she ap­peared on CNC3’s The Big In­ter­view last night.

Caribbean Air­lines has con­firmed that one of its flights be­came an un­like­ly de­liv­ery room mid-air, af­ter a pas­sen­ger gave birth while en route from Ja­maica to New York, though the air­line in­sists no emer­gency was de­clared dur­ing the in­ci­dent.

Ap­prox­i­mate­ly $15,600 worth of ca­ble was stolen from the Trinidad Oil­field Sup­plies Lim­it­ed (TOSL) com­pound in Mara­bel­la in the ear­ly hours of Fri­day.

That’s the ques­tion from for­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment gen­er­al sec­re­tary Ash­ton Ford, who says the par­ty’s lead­er­ship is al­low­ing Ari­ma May­or Bal­li­ram Ma­haraj to dic­tate the pace of when he will re­sign.

An in­ter­im in­junc­tion has been grant­ed against Now TV To­ba­go, a me­dia com­pa­ny formed just 37 days ago, over the pub­li­ca­tion of al­leged defam­a­to­ry state­ments against Mil­ford Road Es­planade Lim­it­ed (MREL) chair­man Kevon McKen­na.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing re­ports that a man was beat­en, doused with chem­i­cals, as­sault­ed with a drill and threat­ened with sodomy un­less he paid mon­ey to ex­tor­tion­ists in Tu­na­puna.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are now un­der­way in­to re­ports that a woman bit off part of a ban­dit’s fin­ger dur­ing an at­tack in El So­cor­ro on Sat­ur­day af­ter­noon.