T&T Po­lice Ser­vice So­cial and Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion (TTPSS­WA) pres­i­dent, ASP Ish­mael Pitt, says ad­di­tion­al po­lice of­fi­cers would fur­ther bol­ster the strength and ef­fi­cien­cies of the po­lice in crime-fight­ing goals, as he ap­proved of re­cent plans aimed at in­creas­ing man­pow­er with­in the ranks of the ser­vice.

The nude body of an uniden­ti­fied man with head in­juries was dis­cov­ered at Co­cal Es­tate in Man­zanil­la yes­ter­day, prompt­ing a homi­cide in­ves­ti­ga­tion by po­lice.

Armed of­fi­cers at­tached to Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s pri­vate res­i­dence in Phillip­ine rushed from the com­pound yes­ter­day morn­ing af­ter a grey pick-up slammed in­to the prop­er­ty’s perime­ter wall, trig­ger­ing an im­me­di­ate se­cu­ri­ty re­sponse along the SS Erin Road.

It has been al­most four months since Joshua Sama­roo was killed by po­lice dur­ing a dra­mat­ic con­fronta­tion in St Au­gus­tine, an in­ci­dent that sparked pub­lic out­rage and wide­spread crit­i­cism of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS).

A 22-year-old British na­tion­al is ex­pect­ed to face charges, af­ter of­fi­cers of the Cus­toms and Ex­cise Di­vi­sion in­ter­cept­ed near­ly $6 mil­lion worth of mar­i­jua­na at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port on Sun­day.

The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) is mourn­ing the pass­ing of Emer­i­tus Pro­fes­sor Bald­win Mootoo, a pi­o­neer­ing aca­d­e­m­ic whose ca­reer was deeply wo­ven in­to the in­sti­tu­tion’s his­to­ry and growth.

The Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com) has voiced grave con­cern over es­ca­lat­ing hos­til­i­ties in the Mid­dle East, par­tic­u­lar­ly mil­i­tary ac­tion in the Strait of Hor­muz. Cari­com high­light­ed the se­vere hu­man­i­tar­i­an toll, threats to civ­il in­fra­struc­ture, and the desta­bi­liz­ing im­pact on glob­al mar­kets caused by the con­flict.

The Ho­n­ourable De­vesh Ma­haraj, Min­is­ter of Jus­tice and Min­is­ter in the Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al, pre­sent­ed in­stru­ments of ap­point­ment to the new­ly ap­point­ed board of the Le­gal Aid & Ad­vi­so­ry Au­thor­i­ty dur­ing a cer­e­mo­ny held at the Au­thor­i­ty’s head of­fice to­day.

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump said he is hold­ing off on a mil­i­tary strike on Iran planned for Tues­day be­cause “se­ri­ous ne­go­ti­a­tions” are un­der­way.

The In­dus­tri­al Court of Trinidad and To­ba­go is mourn­ing the death of long-serv­ing judge Her Ho­n­our Ms Bindi­mat­tie Ma­habir.

In a co­or­di­nat­ed an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion ear­ly Sun­day morn­ing, law en­force­ment of­fi­cers ar­rest­ed 21 in­di­vid­u­als and seized cash and al­co­hol dur­ing a raid in the D’Abadie dis­trict.

Of­fi­cers at­tached to the Mor­vant Po­lice Sta­tion and the North East­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force (NEDTF) seized 15 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion dur­ing an an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion in Mor­vant on Mon­day.