The rel­a­tives of 15-year-old Beris Joseph, whose body found dumped at Mt Hay on Sat­ur­day, are strug­gling to cope with the or­deal.

Dr Del­mon Dex­ter Bak­er has been ap­point­ed as the new Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer (CEO) of the To­ba­go Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (TRHA). Ac­cord­ing to an in­ter­nal memo leaked to Guardian Me­dia, Dr Bak­er of­fi­cial­ly as­sumed of­fice on Jan­u­ary 3.

A store­room at the ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port site along Store Bay Lo­cal Road was bro­ken in­to be­tween Fri­day evening and Sat­ur­day morn­ing.

One week af­ter Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher warned the pub­lic against the mis­use of gel blaster guns, a teenag­er was al­leged­ly in­jured fol­low­ing a con­fronta­tion be­tween po­lice and sus­pects who were us­ing the toys ear­ly yes­ter­day.

The Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) closed off nom­i­na­tions for its forth­com­ing elec­tions last Fri­day.

The past year has seen new records be­ing set as T&T record­ed its high­est-ever mur­der toll at 624 and with the pub­lic clam­our­ing for the au­thor­i­ties to take back the coun­try from crim­i­nal el­e­ments – a State of Emer­gency (SoE) was an­nounced on De­cem­ber 30, in the hope it would bring a sting­ing halt to this grim pe­ri­od.

The As­sem­bly of South­ern Lawyers (ASL) has heav­i­ly crit­i­cised the re­cent­ly de­clared State of Emer­gency (SoE), brand­ing it a “com­e­dy of er­rors” and an ill-pre­pared re­sponse to T&T’s un­re­lent­ing crime wave.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing in­to the theft of a quan­ti­ty of al­co­hol worth $25,000 from An­gos­tu­ra Ltd, East­ern Main Road, Laven­tille.

A 25-year-old man from Laven­tille Road, San Juan, re­mained in po­lice cus­tody up to yes­ter­day, af­ter re­port­ed­ly shoot­ing his neigh­bour twice and in­jur­ing him­self in the process.

A sec­ond group of sol­diers from Guatemala ar­rived here on Sat­ur­day, bring­ing to 150, the to­tal num­ber of the con­tin­gent in the coun­try to fight armed gangs.

Five peo­ple were ar­rest­ed, two ri­fles, two gel blaster guns and quan­ti­ties of am­mu­ni­tion seized by of­fi­cers dur­ing on­go­ing State of Emer­gency Op­er­a­tions con­duct­ed in the East­ern, Port of Spain, North-East­ern and Cen­tral Di­vi­sions yes­ter­day.

Plan­ning and De­vel­op­ment Min­is­ter Pen­ne­lope Beck­les-Robin­son said she would "see how things go" when asked if she would throw her hat in the ring to be the next leader of the PNM.