Po­lice in the Re­gion II Homi­cide Bu­reau were kept busy on Thurs­day night in­to yes­ter­day morn­ing, as two sep­a­rate mur­ders were re­port­ed in Tu­na­puna and Ari­ma.

To­ba­go reg­is­tered its fourth mur­der for 2026 af­ter gun­shots rang out in the cap­i­tal around 7 pm last night.

The cap­tain and crew of a Pana­man­ian-reg­is­tered oil and chem­i­cal tanker, who were de­tained for two months in 2020, ex­posed to COVID-19 and de­nied treat­ment, and were blocked from com­mu­ni­cat­ing with their fam­i­lies, are set to re­ceive over $6 mil­lion in com­pen­sa­tion. 

A 51-year-old bar own­er from Cunu­pia has been freed of mur­der­ing his daugh­ter’s friend fol­low­ing an in­ci­dent at their home in 2020.

The En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty (EMA) has grant­ed a Cer­tifi­cate of En­vi­ron­men­tal Clear­ance (CEC) for the de­vel­op­ment of a Mar­riott-brand­ed ho­tel and re­sort at Rocky Point, Mt. Irvine, To­ba­go.

The cap­tain and crew of a Pana­man­ian-reg­is­tered oil and chem­i­cal tanker, who were de­tained for two months in 2020, ex­posed to Covid-19 and de­nied treat­ment, and were blocked from com­mu­ni­cat­ing with their fam­i­lies, are set to re­ceive over $6 mil­lion in com­pen­sa­tion.

A 51-year-old bar own­er from Cunu­pia has been freed of mur­der­ing a friend of his daugh­ter fol­low­ing an in­ci­dent at their home in 2020.

Po­lice said Alex Sama­roo was lim­ing with friends on Cen­te­nary Street around 9.45 pm when he got in­to an ar­gu­ment with some­one.

Gath­ered at the Oil­field Work­ers Trade Union build­ing at the Para­mount Build­ing in San Fer­nan­do, Con­trac­tors and Gen­er­al Work­ers Trade Union pres­i­dent ex­pressed dis­ap­point­ment over the low num­bers as she re­mind­ed work­ers that May Day is root­ed in strug­gle and sac­ri­fice, from the fight for the eight-hour work­day to his­toric clash­es be­tween work­ers and po­lice. She stressed that the day is more than a cal­en­dar event, say­ing it re­mains a sym­bol of re­sis­tance, hope and the on­go­ing fight for de­cent wages and bet­ter work­ing con­di­tions.

The Min­istry of Works and In­fra­struc­ture has ad­vised the pub­lic of a tem­po­rary road clo­sure along S.S. Erin Road at the 15.8 km mark, near Mo­ra Dam Trace and Syne Trace.

Sources said Dex­ter McMil­lan was shot and killed at his home on Man­an Road, off the Ari­ma Old Road, just af­ter 12 am.

Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Janelle John-Bates has of­fered her res­ig­na­tion to the Sen­ate, apol­o­gis­ing for the con­tro­ver­sy sur­round­ing her role on a key par­lia­men­tary over­sight com­mit­tee.