The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice has dis­con­tin­ued the Yel­low Lev­el High Wind Alert, re­turn­ing the coun­try to Green Lev­el.

The Min­istry of Land and Le­gal Af­fairs has signed a Mem­o­ran­dum of Un­der­stand­ing (MOU) with the World In­tel­lec­tu­al Prop­er­ty Or­gan­i­sa­tion (WIPO) aimed at strength­en­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go’s ca­pac­i­ty for patent draft­ing and sup­port­ing lo­cal in­no­va­tors.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce (TT Cham­ber) and the George­town Cham­ber of Com­merce and In­dus­try (GC­CI) have signed a Mem­o­ran­dum of Un­der­stand­ing (MoU) aimed at strength­en­ing bi­lat­er­al trade, in­vest­ment and pri­vate sec­tor col­lab­o­ra­tion be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go and Guyana.

A 50-year-old Port of Spain man has been charged with mur­der and firearm-re­lat­ed of­fences in con­nec­tion with the fa­tal shoot­ing of Mar­lon Ham­lyn last month along Char­lotte Street.

A mod­i­fied PlaySta­tion gam­ing con­sole was al­leged­ly be­ing used to con­ceal a firearm and am­mu­ni­tion, lead­ing to the ar­rest of two peo­ple dur­ing in­tel­li­gence-led an­ti-crime op­er­a­tions car­ried out by po­lice in Cen­tral and West­ern Trinidad on Wednes­day.

Po­lice are seek­ing the pub­lic's ur­gent as­sis­tance in lo­cat­ing an 18-year-old To­ba­go woman who has been re­port­ed miss­ing.

A quan­ti­ty of cannabis and am­mu­ni­tion was seized and one man was ar­rest­ed dur­ing an in­tel­li­gence-led an­ti-crime ex­er­cise con­duct­ed by of­fi­cers of the Port-of-Spain Di­vi­sion overnight.

Mo­torists can ex­pect tem­po­rary traf­fic re­stric­tions along the west­bound Churchill Roo­sevelt High­way and Beetham High­way be­tween the Aranguez Over­pass and Pi­o­neer Dri­ve from Ju­ly 13 to Ju­ly 24 as the Min­istry of Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion car­ries out pave­ment mark­ing works.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the theft of parts from a life­guard tow­er at the beach near Beau­mont Road in Ma­yaro.

Busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed and his wife Genevieve have lost their ini­tial bid for their law­suit, al­leg­ing that they are be­ing tar­get­ed by the Gov­ern­ment based on their eth­nic­i­ty and an on­go­ing le­gal dis­pute over the ter­mi­na­tion of leas­es for State land, to be ex­pe­dit­ed.

The fam­i­ly of sev­en-year-old An­gel­i­ca Jo­gie, who was struck and killed by a jet ski at Pi­geon Point on April 8, in­tends to pur­sue le­gal ac­tion against the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) over the tragedy.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has ruled out any im­me­di­ate move for Trinidad and To­ba­go to adopt the Caribbean Court of Jus­tice (CCJ) as its fi­nal court of ap­peal, even as she wel­comed the re­gion­al court’s im­pend­ing role in re­solv­ing the dis­pute over the reap­point­ment of Cari­com Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al Dr Car­la Bar­nett.