Of­fi­cers of the St Joseph Po­lice Sta­tion seized a home­made shot­gun and am­mu­ni­tion dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in the dis­trict on March 14.

Of­fi­cers of the Port of Spain Di­vi­sion seized am­mu­ni­tion and cannabis dur­ing Op­er­a­tion Stead­fast con­duct­ed be­tween March 14 and March 15.

The Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Work­ers Union (CWU) has raised con­cerns about gov­er­nance and ap­point­ments in­volv­ing Na­tion­al En­ter­pris­es Lim­it­ed (NEL) and Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TSTT).

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Ag­gre­gate Pro­duc­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTA­PA) has ex­tend­ed con­do­lences fol­low­ing the death of busi­ness­man and quar­ry op­er­a­tor Dan­ny Guer­ra.

Po­lice ar­rest­ed three peo­ple for drug of­fences and seized three firearms and am­mu­ni­tion dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in Freeport on Sat­ur­day.

Two peo­ple were ar­rest­ed af­ter of­fi­cers seized cannabis val­ued at $750,000 dur­ing a State of Emer­gency op­er­a­tion in San­gre Grande on Sun­day.

Po­lice are prob­ing the mur­der of a 30-year-old pri­vate with the TT Reg­i­ment af­ter he was gunned down while try­ing to get in­to his ve­hi­cle on Sat­ur­day night.

Ne­go­ti­a­tions are of­ten framed as a con­test of lever­age: who holds it; who push­es hard­er and who ul­ti­mate­ly walks away with the bet­ter deal.

De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge says he is shocked by the mur­der of busi­ness­man Dan­ny Guer­ra, who was held last year for an al­leged plot to as­sas­si­nate him.

Po­lice of­fi­cers in­ves­ti­gat­ing the mur­der of San­gre Grande busi­ness­man and re­put­ed crime fig­ure Dan­ny Guer­ra say there is no clear mo­tive, just yet, for the killing. How­ev­er, they say they are work­ing on mul­ti­ple an­gles on what may have prompt­ed the dead­ly at­tack.

With­out di­vulging fur­ther de­tails, Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der says that ad­di­tion­al re­sources were ex­pect­ed to tack­le crime in T&T, as he says that sev­er­al se­cu­ri­ty agen­cies con­tin­ue to op­er­ate with in­suf­fi­cient staffing and equip­ment to ful­fil their du­ties.

At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie warned that threats against the Prime Min­is­ter, in­clud­ing those post­ed on­line, will be treat­ed se­ri­ous­ly un­der the law as Par­lia­ment vot­ed on Fri­day to ex­tend the State of Emer­gency for an­oth­er three months with­out Op­po­si­tion sup­port.