Of­fi­cers of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice de­tained 53 Venezue­lan na­tion­als dur­ing an overnight op­er­a­tion in Curepe. The op­er­a­tion, dubbed “Bor­der Shield”, was car­ried out be­tween 11 p.m. on Fri­day and 5 a.m. on Sat­ur­day.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice says it has made op­er­a­tional prepa­ra­tions for the phased re­lease of peo­ple whose Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders have been re­voked.

As the State of Emer­gency (SoE) ap­proach­es its end, Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has an­nounced that the Gov­ern­ment will bring the con­tro­ver­sial Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions leg­is­la­tion back to Par­lia­ment as part of its post-SoE crime-fight­ing strat­e­gy.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has slammed the Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to bring the Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions (ZOSO) Bill back to Par­lia­ment, ar­gu­ing that its re­vival as the State of Emer­gency (SoE) comes to an end next week shows the Gov­ern­ment has no ef­fec­tive al­ter­na­tive strat­e­gy to tack­le crime.

Less than 24 hours af­ter Star Sab­ga was re­leased from house ar­rest un­der a Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO) im­posed dur­ing the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE), Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der said the in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to an al­leged plot to as­sas­si­nate Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and oth­er Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials re­mains ac­tive.

Se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cials say they were giv­en in­struc­tions to re­lease a to­tal of 563 State of Emer­gency (SoE) de­tainees from prison fa­cil­i­ties in east Trinidad over a phased six-day pe­ri­od, with the cur­rent SoE due to ex­pire on Sep­tem­ber 17.

Five days be­fore the State of Emer­gency (SoE) is due to ex­pire, the Gov­ern­ment was still not say­ing whether it will seek an­oth­er ex­ten­sion, even as Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der main­tains that threats against Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials re­main.

A man iden­ti­fied as Dy­lan Mad­hoo of San­ta Rosa Heights, Ari­ma, was am­bushed and shot dead while in a ve­hi­cle in Mal­abar yes­ter­day evening.

Min­is­ter in the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter Dar­rel Al­la­har says the fi­nan­cial sur­vival of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s me­dia hous­es is not the Gov­ern­ment’s re­spon­si­bil­i­ty, as he de­fend­ed pro­posed changes that would al­low pub­lic au­thor­i­ties to pub­lish an­nu­al state­ments on­line in­stead of in news­pa­pers.

Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) is back­ing teach­ers at San Juan North Sec­ondary who left the school ear­ly yes­ter­day and will not re­turn un­til oc­cu­pa­tion­al safe­ty and health per­son­nel as­sess the com­pound.

A 67-year-old woman from Diego Mar­tin has been ac­quit­ted of stab­bing a 17-year-old school­girl in her eye with a pen­cil af­ter in­ter­ven­ing in a fight be­tween the al­leged vic­tim and her daugh­ter al­most 15 years ago. 

Laven­tille East/Mor­vant MP Chris­t­ian Birch­wood is rais­ing con­cern over a surge in vi­o­lence in his con­stituen­cy af­ter four peo­ple were killed in Mor­vant with­in 48 hours.