Still trau­ma­tised af­ter a two-hour home in­va­sion, a 72-year-old woman is call­ing for tougher ac­tion against crim­i­nals.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is chal­leng­ing the Gov­ern­ment to pro­vide ev­i­dence that its re­peat­ed use of States of Emer­gency (SoEs) is ef­fec­tive­ly re­duc­ing crime, ar­gu­ing that cit­i­zens are be­ing asked to sup­port ex­tra­or­di­nary mea­sures with­out ac­cess to the da­ta need­ed to as­sess whether they are work­ing.

Ten in­di­vid­u­als, eight men and two women, have been de­tained un­der Pre­ven­ta­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs).

Po­lice say that in­mates in the same cell as Christo­pher Ban­field, who was beat­en to death on Mon­day, have not yet been in­ter­viewed as en­quiries in­to the in­ci­dent con­tin­ue.

The sto­ry of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s pres­i­den­cy is not on­ly the sto­ry of the sev­en in­di­vid­u­als who have oc­cu­pied the na­tion’s high­est of­fice but al­so of the gen­er­a­tions of staff whose qui­et ded­i­ca­tion has sus­tained it for five decades.

Days af­ter the bat­tered body of 12-year-old Mer­cedez Layne was dis­cov­ered in Erin, a 26-year-old Pa­lo Seco man is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear in court to­day.

Sev­en­teen-year-old Adri­an­na Robert­son, who was re­port­ed miss­ing on Mon­day, walked in­to the Tu­na­puna Po­lice Sta­tion yes­ter­day af­ter­noon, bring­ing an end to a brief miss­ing per­sons alert.

The rel­a­tives of a To­ba­go man shot by a po­lice­man on Mon­day evening are ques­tion­ing why he re­mains un­der po­lice guard at hos­pi­tal while the of­fi­cer in­volved is not in cus­tody.

The North West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NWRHA) has been or­dered to pay $75,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to a for­mer em­ploy­ee it wrong­ful­ly ter­mi­nat­ed.

Two con­nect­ed prop­er­ty de­vel­op­ment com­pa­nies and their chair­man have been or­dered to pay al­most $1 mil­lion in com­pen­sa­tion to a for­mer se­nior em­ploy­ee, who claimed he was wrong­ful­ly ter­mi­nat­ed af­ter be­ing false­ly ac­cused of dis­hon­esty.

Re­tire­ment ben­e­fits for mem­bers of the pro­tec­tive ser­vices are es­pe­cial­ly crit­i­cal at this time, as these of­fi­cers con­tin­ue to shoul­der the bur­den of a coun­try un­der pres­sure with­out ad­e­quate re­sources and equip­ment, Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dave Tan­coo said yes­ter­day.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says Gov­ern­ment is com­mit­ted to ad­dress­ing the con­cerns of maxi taxi op­er­a­tors and will con­tin­ue en­gag­ing in di­a­logue with stake­hold­ers in the sec­tor.