Two of the four sus­pects who were joint­ly charged in con­nec­tion with the Sep­tem­ber 20th lar­ce­ny in­ci­dent in Man­zanil­la were sen­tenced yes­ter­day to 18 months hard labour.

Agents with the U.S. Drug En­force­ment Ad­min­is­tra­tion (DEA) of­fice at the U.S. Em­bassy as­sist­ed the Trinidad and To­ba­go Transna­tion­al Or­ga­nized Crime Unit (TOCU) in an in­ves­ti­ga­tion which cul­mi­nat­ed in the ar­rest of Shurlan Gup­py on Tues­day, who is charged with traf­fick­ing hero­in and co­caine val­ued at US$1 mil­lion to the Unit­ed States. He is charged in the Unit­ed States Dis­trict Court for the East­ern Dis­trict of Penn­syl­va­nia, and will be ex­tra­dit­ed to Penn­syl­va­nia to face charges. Dur­ing the ear­ly morn­ing ex­e­cu­tion of the ar­rest war­rant, agents found a firearm and one kilo­gram of co­caine in the sus­pect’s res­i­dence.

Thir­ty-three-year-old Si­mon Ma­habir was sen­tenced to two years hard labour for pos­ses­sion of a home­made shot­gun and pos­ses­sion of one round of 12-guage am­mu­ni­tion.

Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) Pres­i­dent, Dr. Kishore Shal­low has con­grat­u­lat­ed Vice Pres­i­dent*8 and for­mer West In­dies spin­ner and dou­ble T20 World Cup win­ner Samuel Badree on their re­mark­able achieve­ment of re­ceiv­ing the pres­ti­gious Hum­ming­bird Medal (HBM) Gold Award at the 2023 Na­tion­al Awards of Trinidad & To­ba­go. The awards cer­e­mo­ny took place on Sun­day 24 Sep­tem­ber, at the his­toric Pres­i­dent’s House in St Ann’s, Port-of-Spain.

T&T’s Venezue­lan-born del­e­gate for the Miss Grand In­ter­na­tion­al Pageant in Viet­nam, Milei­dy Mat­er­a­no, has stepped down from the com­pe­ti­tion.

Over­loaded trucks will be tick­et­ed, says Ryan Ram­per­sad, the Chair­man of the Cou­va/Tabaquite/Tal­paro Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion (CT­TRC). Ram­per­sad was at the time over­see­ing an ex­er­cise by the CT­TRC to re­pair bad­ly dam­aged parts of Thomp­son Road, Palmiste on Wednes­day morn­ing.

The Na­tion­al In­fra­struc­ture De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (NID­CO) is ad­vis­ing that the fol­low­ing tem­po­rary changes will be made to the sail­ing sched­ule for the Wa­ter Taxi Ser­vice for Fri­day and Mon­day:

Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, at about 8 pm Paul was lim­ing near his home along with a woman known to him when they were con­front­ed by armed men.

Min­is­ter of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Dr. Amery Browne is ex­pect­ing a re­port on al­le­ga­tions sur­round­ing the theft of the Trinidad and To­ba­go sign in Queens, New York.

South­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force (SDTF) of­fi­cers seized a firearm and nar­cotics at the res­i­dence of a sus­pect want­ed abroad in con­nec­tion with sev­er­al of­fences yes­ter­day, dur­ing an in­tel­li­gence-led ex­er­cise.

Amid crip­pling heat grip­ping the Caribbean, Cli­mate An­a­lyt­ics Caribbean has raised con­cerns that there is lim­it­ed da­ta and re­search re­gard­ing the costs as­so­ci­at­ed with loss and dam­age from heat stress and heat­waves across the re­gion.

Her Ex­cel­len­cy, Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo, re­ceived the THA Chief Sec­re­tary, Far­ley Au­gus­tine, on Wednes­day morn­ing.