A man from Point Fortin with schiz­o­phre­nia has been freed of mur­der­ing his step­fa­ther af­ter spend­ing al­most 19 years on re­mand. 

With the four-year an­niver­sary of a ma­jor div­ing tragedy at Paria Fu­el Trad­ing Com­pa­ny’s Pointe-a-Pierre fa­cil­i­ty ap­proach­ing, the fam­i­lies of three of the four vic­tims and the lone sur­vivor, Christo­pher Boodram, ap­pear no clos­er to re­ceiv­ing com­pen­sa­tion. 

Grena­da's Gov­ern­ment has not yet de­cid­ed if it will al­low a US radar sys­tem at the Mau­rice Bish­op In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port (MBIA), since tech­ni­cal as­sess­ment is still on­go­ing.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has in­sist­ed that Trinidad and To­ba­go has no plans to leave Cari­com, de­spite her Gov­ern­ment’s fo­cus on strength­en­ing ties with coun­tries out­side the re­gion.

A 39-year-old man from Moru­ga re­mains in crit­i­cal con­di­tion af­ter be­ing shot mul­ti­ple times in front of his home yes­ter­day morn­ing.

The North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA) has com­plet­ed the first phase of an elec­tri­cal and light­ing up­grade project at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex (EWM­SC). The work, which be­gan last month, in­clud­ed the in­stal­la­tion and re­pair of 120 light­ing fix­tures across park­ing ar­eas, road­ways, and oth­er high traf­fic ar­eas. The project re­ceived sup­port from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC).

A firearm and a quan­ti­ty of am­mu­ni­tion were seized dur­ing an Op­er­a­tion Tri­dent Ex­er­cise con­duct­ed in the West End Po­lice Dis­trict yes­ter­day.

Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro called Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar a “war­mon­ger” who has forced the Venezue­lan peo­ple to have protests and march­es all over Venezuela in re­cent days be­cause of T&T’s sup­port for the Unit­ed States’ mil­i­tary ac­tions in the Caribbean.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der com­mend­ed the To­ba­go Di­vi­sion of the Po­lice Ser­vice for its suc­cess in re­duc­ing mur­ders and curb­ing il­le­gal drugs and weapons. Speak­ing dur­ing a vis­it to the Scar­bor­ough Po­lice Sta­tion to­day, Alexan­der de­scribed the 300 per cent re­duc­tion in mur­ders as a “mile­stone,” not­ing that the is­land record­ed sev­en mur­ders this year com­pared to 24 last year.

Head of the Re­al Po­lice For Po­lice par­ty, Sgt Zane Bain, says there is an ur­gent need to re­store in­ter­est among mem­bers of the TTPS So­cial Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion (TTPSS­WA), ex­press­ing dis­ap­point­ment over what he de­scribed as a “low turnout” for the as­so­ci­a­tion’s elec­tions on Mon­day.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has pledged to es­tab­lish a cen­tre in To­ba­go to sup­port chil­dren with spe­cial needs, not­ing that as a grand­moth­er to a child with autism, she un­der­stands the chal­lenges in­volved.

The Unit­ed Na­tions sec­re­tary-gen­er­al warned Tues­day that the war in Su­dan is “spi­ral­ing out of con­trol” af­ter a para­mil­i­tary force seized the be­sieged and famine-strick­en Dar­fur city of el-Fash­er.