Res­i­dents of Tarou­ba Heights say they re­main in the dark days af­ter Thurs­day’s oil spill, al­leg­ing lim­it­ed di­rect com­mu­ni­ca­tion from Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um even as a lin­ger­ing hy­dro­car­bon odour, clean-up ac­tiv­i­ty and health con­cerns con­tin­ue to af­fect parts of the com­mu­ni­ty.

Clean-up op­er­a­tions along Char­lotte Street in Port-of-Spain have been com­plet­ed fol­low­ing a sewage leak that dis­rupt­ed busi­ness ac­tiv­i­ty in the cap­i­tal’s main com­mer­cial dis­trict yes­ter­day.

Man­ches­ter City beat Chelsea 1-0 at Wem­b­ley Sta­di­um on Sat­ur­day thanks to a mo­ment of mag­ic from An­toine Se­menyo.

The USS Ger­ald R. Ford, the world largest air­craft car­ri­er, re­turned home to Vir­ginia on Sat­ur­day af­ter an 11-month de­ploy­ment, the longest since the Viet­nam War, that saw it sup­port the U.S. war with Iran and the cap­ture of Nicolás Maduro when he was Venezuela’s pres­i­dent.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice says no laws of Trinidad and To­ba­go were breached in re­la­tion to the Ukrain­ian car­go air­craft that land­ed at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port on Thurs­day night car­ry­ing sev­er­al tonnes of in­dus­tri­al ex­plo­sives.

A 41-year-old woman is in po­lice cus­tody af­ter of­fi­cers held her in con­nec­tion with a stolen car in Arou­ca on Thurs­day.

A 26-year-old Ch­agua­nas man, de­scribed by po­lice as a “high-rank­ing mem­ber” and a “shoot­er” for the Rat­ed R gang, has been ar­rest­ed and is ex­pect­ed to be charged af­ter a brief chase on Fri­day af­ter­noon.

For­mer po­lice com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith is crit­i­cis­ing Gov­ern­ment plans to in­crease the strength of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice from 7,884 of­fi­cers to 10,200 of­fi­cers over five years, ar­gu­ing that the coun­try needs im­proved polic­ing sys­tems and ac­count­abil­i­ty rather than more per­son­nel.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice has is­sued an up­dat­ed yel­low lev­el high wind alert for Trinidad and To­ba­go and sur­round­ing wa­ters, warn­ing that breezy to windy con­di­tions are ex­pect­ed to con­tin­ue in­ter­mit­tent­ly un­til to­mor­row af­ter­noon.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice seized more than $1.3 mil­lion worth of cannabis and a firearm dur­ing an an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion in Cunu­pia on Fri­day.

The crew of a Ukrain­ian air­craft, which land­ed at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port on Thurs­day night with sev­er­al tonnes of in­dus­tri­al ex­plo­sives on board, was al­lowed to leave Trinidad last night, af­ter fac­ing hours of in­ter­ro­ga­tion by lo­cal and in­ter­na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty au­thor­i­ties.

Sev­er­al sen­a­tors, in­clud­ing mem­bers on the Gov­ern­ment’s side, yes­ter­day re­vealed they were com­plete­ly un­aware of the se­cu­ri­ty threat which At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie claimed caused ex­tra vig­i­lance at last week’s par­lia­men­tary sit­ting.