While most of the coun­try came to know Ran­dall War­ren Hec­tor as the first mur­der to oc­cur dur­ing the State of Emer­gency (SoE), the state pros­e­cu­tor was yes­ter­day re­mem­bered by his fam­i­ly, friends and the le­gal fra­ter­ni­ty as a hum­ble, jovial and God-fear­ing man.

The South Caribbean Con­fer­ence of Sev­enth-day Ad­ven­tists has ex­tend­ed sym­pa­thy to mu­si­cian and so­cial jus­tice ac­tivist Lou Lyons for be­ing in­cor­rect­ly im­pli­cat­ed in the mur­der of spe­cial pros­e­cu­tor Ran­dall Hec­tor af­ter at­tend­ing a church ser­vice. 

Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo says she is “deeply and over­whelm­ing­ly” dis­ap­point­ed that she is un­able to at­tend the 18th Pravasi Bharatiya Di­vas (PBD) con­ven­tion in In­dia, where she is this year’s chief guest.

The Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al has ad­mit­ted that a pur­port­ed gun amnesty un­der reg­u­la­tions for the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE) is not cur­rent­ly in ef­fect. 

To­ba­go po­lice say they are mak­ing strides in re­duc­ing crime on the is­land, par­tic­u­lar­ly with the de­c­la­ra­tion of the State of Emer­gency (SoE) on De­cem­ber 30. How­ev­er, they again lament­ed that young peo­ple, from as ear­ly as age 12, are be­ing lured in­to crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty.

Af­ter the mur­der of 29-year-old Nicholas Mor­gan, one of his neigh­bours is ap­peal­ing to peo­ple to turn away from a life of crime.

Of­fi­cers from the North Cen­tral Di­vi­sion Task Force swift­ly re­cov­ered a stolen ve­hi­cle just min­utes af­ter a rob­bery in Arou­ca on Wednes­day.

One sus­pect has been ar­rest­ed, and two firearms, am­mu­ni­tion, and a sig­nif­i­cant quan­ti­ty of cannabis were seized as po­lice in­ten­si­fied op­er­a­tions across the coun­try un­der the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE).

Chair­man of the Pe­nal/Debe Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion (PDRC) Gow­tam Ma­haraj says re­pair­ing land­slips at In­dars­ingh Dri­ve, Di­a­mond Vil­lage, will not be easy and will re­quire mil­lions of dol­lars. He said the slip­page orig­i­nates from Pa­pourie Road, which falls un­der the purview of the Min­istry of Works.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) is call­ing for ad­di­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty at the San Juan North Sec­ondary School, af­ter a fire broke out in a class­room on Wednes­day.

A To­ba­go man is fight­ing for his life at the Scar­bor­ough Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, suf­fer­ing from first-de­gree burns, af­ter be­ing found on fire on Tues­day. Be­cause of his crit­i­cal con­di­tion, po­lice said he was un­able to tell them who or what set him ablaze.

Fire­fight­ers are bat­tling to con­trol a se­ries of ma­jor fires in the Los An­ge­les area that have killed five peo­ple, rav­aged com­mu­ni­ties from the Pa­cif­ic Coast to Pasade­na and forced over 180,000 peo­ple to flee their homes.