Hun­dreds of hope­ful Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) re­cruits braved blis­ter­ing heat, traf­fic grid­lock and hours of wait­ing in Mara­bel­la yes­ter­day, un­de­terred by the coun­try’s vi­o­lent crime cri­sis as they pur­sued an op­por­tu­ni­ty to join the TTPS.

The Kwame Ture Ed­u­ca­tion and De­vel­op­ment Cen­tre has wel­comed the Port-of-Spain City Cor­po­ra­tion’s de­ci­sion to re­name Ox­ford Street as Kwame Ture Street, de­scrib­ing it as a his­toric recog­ni­tion of one of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s most in­flu­en­tial sons.

The San Juan/Laven­tille Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion (SLRC) re­mains in lim­bo over the fu­ture of its Aranguez Main Road head­quar­ters, with chair­man Richard Wal­cott say­ing there has been no com­mu­ni­ca­tion from ei­ther the Min­istry of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment or the State-owned Na­tion­al Main­te­nance Train­ing and Se­cu­ri­ty Com­pa­ny Ltd (MTS) since as­sur­ances were giv­en that the mat­ter would be re­solved.

Re­porters With­out Bor­ders (RSF), a glob­al press free­dom or­gan­i­sa­tion, is warn­ing that Trinidad and To­ba­go’s in­de­pen­dent me­dia sec­tor is fac­ing grow­ing fi­nan­cial pres­sure, as gov­ern­ment ad­ver­tis­ing re­mains sus­pend­ed.

Po­lice con­sta­ble Nicholas Ram­nar­ine, who was charged with Mis­be­hav­iour in Pub­lic Of­fice af­ter a miss­ing firearm was found in a garbage bag out­side the Ma­yaro Po­lice Sta­tion last Wednes­day, has been grant­ed $200,000 bail with sure­ty.

A Freeport man es­caped in­jury on Sun­day af­ter some­one known to him al­leged­ly opened fire on him fol­low­ing an ar­gu­ment dur­ing a lime at the vic­tim’s home.

Mur­dered po­lice of­fi­cer Rom­mel Dou­glas is ex­pect­ed to re­ceive a full mil­i­tary send-off on Thurs­day be­fore be­ing cre­mat­ed.

A pro­mot­er has sig­nalled its in­ten­tion to ap­peal a de­ci­sion of a High Court Judge to dis­miss its case against a group of ri­vals and Niger­ian singer and song­writer Bur­na Boy, al­leg­ing that they con­spired to­geth­er to com­man­deer its bid to host a con­cert in De­cem­ber 2022. 

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Prison Ser­vice has found a unique way of rais­ing funds to care for its own.

The Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) has launched a Hall of Fame to recog­nise the play­ers and ad­min­is­tra­tors whose con­tri­bu­tions have helped shape the re­gion­al T20 tour­na­ment since its in­cep­tion in 2013.

Min­is­ter of Land and Le­gal Af­fairs Sad­dam Ho­sein has re­ject­ed at­tempts to pit slav­ery against in­den­ture­ship, say­ing both sys­tems in­flict­ed suf­fer­ing on gen­er­a­tions of peo­ple and should not be treat­ed as com­pet­ing his­tor­i­cal ex­pe­ri­ences.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is call­ing on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to hold a press con­fer­ence, say­ing she has ques­tions to an­swer on a range of is­sues fac­ing the coun­try.