Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing a rob­bery at the Pi­ta Pit out­let in the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port that oc­curred around 10 o’clock last night.

As school and Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials move to take stricter ap­proach­es to school vi­o­lence, at least three South East Port-of-Spain Sec­ondary School (SE­PoSS) stu­dents want those in au­thor­i­ty to stop play­ing “pol­i­tics” with the school’s fu­ture and think about the chil­dren.

Law en­force­ment of­fi­cials say they dis­rupt­ed two sus­pect­ed hu­man traf­fick­ing op­er­a­tions yes­ter­day, de­tain­ing 45 peo­ple across Trinidad in one of the coun­try’s largest co­or­di­nat­ed crack­downs to date.

Hu­man rights ac­tivist Sofia Figueroa-Leon is wel­com­ing Gov­ern­ment’s an­nounce­ment that a new mi­grant pol­i­cy will be rolled out. But she in­sists that it needs to be done hu­mane­ly and holis­ti­cal­ly, un­like the ones be­fore.

A Ca­roni man who was ac­cus­tomed to dri­ving his friend to the Cen­tral Mar­ket, Port-of-Spain, as part of a week­ly rit­u­al, was am­bushed and shot mul­ti­ple times and left to die on the road, in what po­lice be­lieve could be a rob­bery.

A man who was found se­vere­ly beat­en in Port-of-Spain dur­ing the ear­ly hours of Thurs­day, re­mained hos­pi­talised in a crit­i­cal con­di­tion yes­ter­day.

Min­is­ter of Sport and Youth Af­fairs Phillip Watts has vowed to en­hance dif­fer­ent mech­a­nisms to call sport­ing bod­ies to ac­count, par­tic­u­lar­ly in mat­ters of fi­nan­cial ex­pen­di­ture.

A for­mer se­nior of­fi­cer in the Coast Guard is call­ing for "cool­er heads" to pre­vail amidst con­tin­ued ten­sion be­tween T&T and Venezuela.

A change in gov­ern­ment should not au­to­mat­i­cal­ly mean a change in the board­rooms of state en­ter­pris­es, ac­cord­ing to the UWI Arthur Lok Jack Glob­al School of Busi­ness, which is call­ing for a shift away from po­lit­i­cal pa­tron­age in board ap­point­ments and to­ward gov­er­nance based on mer­it, ac­count­abil­i­ty, and the le­gal frame­works that gov­ern state-owned en­ter­pris­es (SOEs).

Two Point Fortin broth­ers ap­peared be­fore a Mas­ter of the High Court, charged with the mur­der of Coast Guard Able Body Sea­man, Da­cion John, which oc­curred on May 21.

Ch­agua­nas May­or Faaiq Mo­hammed says rel­a­tives of Suren Capildeo, SC, who in­her­it­ed the his­toric Li­on House, have reached out to the Na­tion­al Trust to ini­ti­ate dis­cus­sions about the build­ing’s fu­ture.

Venezuela’s gov­ern­ment has called on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to tone down the dead­ly force rhetoric she used against their coun­try and her crit­i­cism of Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro.