Of­fi­cers of the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice’s Fi­nan­cial In­ves­ti­ga­tions Branch (FIB) fin­ished count­ing the mon­ey they seized in their sec­ond raid at the Drugs Sou-Sou head­quar­ters in La Hor­quet­ta on Tues­day, mere hours af­ter it was seized in an ex­er­cise that in­clud­ed of­fi­cers of the Pro­fes­sion­al Stan­dards Bu­reau (PSB).

The long-run­ning Drug Sou-Sou saga took yet an­oth­er turn yes­ter­day af­ter founder Ker­ron Clarke claimed that while there are sev­er­al busi­ness­es sim­i­lar to his across the coun­try, for some rea­son the DSS has found it­self con­tin­u­ous­ly tar­get­ed by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice.

A woman and a man have been de­tained for ques­tion­ing in the gris­ly mur­der of busi­ness­man Christo­pher Ho­sein.

A gun­man got more than he bar­gained for af­ter his vic­tim, a road­side ven­dor, fought back re­sult­ing in the ban­dit shoot­ing him­self in the leg. The in­jured ban­dit and ac­com­plice ran off, but they, along with a third man, were sub­se­quent­ly ar­rest­ed by po­lice.

The body of a Hin­du re­li­gious leader, Pun­dit Kaw­al Singh was found face down at the mouth of a bay in Wa­ter­loo, Cara­pichaima, on Tues­day.

News of the mur­der of Venezue­lan Na­tion­al Jhandrys Es­pinoza at Flagstaff Hill, St James, last Thurs­day by some­one she knew, has start­ed a so­cial me­dia move­ment in her home coun­try, with one politi­cian de­scrib­ing T&T as the dev­il’s des­ti­na­tion.

Twen­ty years ago, Robert “Sasha Mar­li” Charles moved in­to Texas Vil­lage, Las Cuevas, one of the most re­mote ar­eas of the coun­try.

They have be­come used to see­ing the hap­py smiles on chil­dren’s faces but since COVID-19, em­ploy­ees of Chuck E Cheese’s have been liv­ing dis­mal lives.

At the height of the war in Syr­ia, more than 100 T&T na­tion­als who sought to join the Is­lam­ic State (ISIS), used Turkey among oth­er coun­tries as a tran­sit point to get in­to ar­eas con­trolled by the caliphate. Some were repa­tri­at­ed from Turkey to T&T but ac­cord­ing to Turk­ish am­bas­sador Bengü Yiğit­gü­den the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic has made it al­most im­pos­si­ble to help those who now want to come home.

In these try­ing times where many stu­dents do not have ac­cess to on­line learn­ing, a Bar­rack­pore busi­ness­man do­nat­ed 41 tablets to stu­dents at the Mayo RC School yes­ter­day.

Two Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) par­ty groups are ex­press­ing dis­sat­is­fac­tion with the steer­ing com­mit­tee’s se­lec­tion of can­di­dates for the up­com­ing To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly elec­tions.

A 36 year old un­em­ployed man has ap­peared be­fore a Scar­bor­ough Vir­tu­al Mag­is­trates Court charged for house break­ing and lar­ce­ny.