A quan­ti­ty of high-grade com­pressed cannabis was seized dur­ing a po­lice op­er­a­tion con­duct­ed in St. James last night, the Po­lice Ser­vice is re­port­ing.

Se­nior Coun­sel Lar­ry Lal­la has called for the im­me­di­ate re­moval of the Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher fol­low­ing the as­sas­si­na­tion of at­tor­ney Ran­dall Hec­tor on New Year’s Eve, a crime he says high­lights a fail­ure of lead­er­ship with­in the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS).

As she clutched her nine-month-old son in her arms, a 20-year-old Vista­bel­la wait­ress nar­row­ly es­caped death af­ter she was stabbed in the ab­domen on New Year’s Day fol­low­ing an ar­gu­ment with a man she knew.

Po­lice are search­ing for a gun­man who opened fire on a Ste Madeleine man, shoot­ing him in the chest on New Year’s Day.

The Gov­ern­ments of the Unit­ed States and Cana­da on Wednes­day com­mem­o­rat­ed Haiti Na­tion­al Day, ex­tend­ing “heart­felt best wish­es to Haiti and its peo­ple” on the 221st an­niver­sary of the French-speak­ing Caribbean coun­try’s in­de­pen­dence.

A U.S. Army vet­er­an who drove a pick­up truck in­to a crowd of New Year’s rev­ellers in New Or­leans, killing 15 peo­ple, had post­ed videos to so­cial me­dia hours be­fore the car­nage say­ing he was in­spired by the Is­lam­ic State group and ex­press­ing a de­sire to kill, the pres­i­dent said.

The cold-blood­ed killing of spe­cial pros­e­cu­tor Ran­dall Hec­tor on Tues­day night, as he walked out of a church ser­vice with his wife and two young chil­dren in New­town, Port-of-Spain, has left the le­gal fra­ter­ni­ty in tears but al­so wary of the mes­sage be­ing sent by those who re­port­ed­ly or­ches­trat­ed the shoot­ing.

The As­sem­bly of South­ern Lawyers has un­equiv­o­cal­ly con­demned the heinous and bru­tal mur­der of promi­nent at­tor­ney Ran­dall Hec­tor, de­scrib­ing it as a grave in­jus­tice and an af­front to the sanc­ti­ty of hu­man life.

De­spite the coun­try end­ing 2024 with a to­tal of 624 homi­cides, Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion­er Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher says the TTPS had “sig­nif­i­cant re­sults” and “made sig­nif­i­cant progress” in 2024.

A for­mer na­tion­al foot­baller was ar­rest­ed on Old Year’s night af­ter of­fi­cers dis­cov­ered a cache of guns and am­mu­ni­tion, along with a quan­ti­ty of cash at his home in Pe­tit Val­ley.

T&T record­ed its first mur­der for 2025 one hour in­to the new year, even as a State of Emer­gency (SoE) was in full ef­fect for the coun­try.

A 72-year-old pen­sion­er is among three fam­i­ly mem­bers ar­rest­ed dur­ing a State of Emer­gency (SoE) raid in Low­lands, To­ba­go yes­ter­day.