A South Oropouche man be­lieved to be flee­ing af­ter al­leged­ly mur­der­ing a woman in To­ba­go was ar­rest­ed as he dis­em­barked the fer­ry in Port-of-Spain yes­ter­day.

Akeel Tim­o­thy still re­mem­bers beg­ging his moth­er not to send him to the Mil­i­tary-Led Aca­d­e­m­ic Train­ing (Mi­LAT) pro­gramme.

Child and gen­der spe­cial­ist Mar­cus Kissoon is ques­tion­ing the Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to sus­pend the Mil­i­tary-Led Aca­d­e­m­ic Train­ing (Mi­LAT) pro­gramme, warn­ing that the move sends the wrong mes­sage about the coun­try’s com­mit­ment to vul­ner­a­ble young men.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to re­verse its de­ci­sion to sus­pend the Mil­i­tary-Led Aca­d­e­m­ic Train­ing (Mi­LAT) Pro­gramme, de­scrib­ing the move as an­oth­er ma­jor set­back for youth de­vel­op­ment and crime pre­ven­tion and ques­tion­ing whether the coun­try can af­ford to lose one of its longest-run­ning so­cial in­ter­ven­tion ini­tia­tives.

As res­cue and re­cov­ery ef­forts con­tin­ue in earth­quake-rav­aged Venezuela, Se­wa In­ter­na­tion­al TT pres­i­dent Re­van Teelucks­ingh is urg­ing the pub­lic to con­tin­ue sup­port­ing the or­gan­i­sa­tion’s re­lief dri­ve as it pre­pares to ship $100,000 worth of much-need­ed tools this week­end to as­sist emer­gency re­spon­ders.

The State has been or­dered to pay more than $2.5 mil­lion in com­pen­sa­tion to the moth­er of a do­mes­tic vi­o­lence vic­tim who suc­cess­ful­ly sued over the au­thor­i­ties’ fail­ure to pro­tect her daugh­ter from her abu­sive ex-boyfriend.

A tele­vi­sion sta­tion has been or­dered to pay over $350,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to a cus­toms of­fi­cer it ac­cused of be­ing a ter­ror­ist linked to the Is­lam­ic State (ISIS).

Three teenagers were ar­rest­ed af­ter they robbed and as­sault­ed an­oth­er group of teenagers. Po­lice re­port­ed that around 7.35 pm on Mon­day, the three teen vic­tims were walk­ing along Lopinot Road, when three men ac­cost­ed them.

Years ago, be­fore he be­came Apos­tle Gary Grant, “Strong­ly” lived a life of crime where he par­tic­i­pat­ed in home in­va­sions, rob­beries with ag­gra­va­tion and car theft.

Head of the North­ern Di­vi­sion Snr Supt Sher­ma May­nard-Wil­son says that tar­get­ed in­ves­ti­ga­tions, stronger bonds with the po­lice and the State of Emer­gency (SoE) have led to a re­duc­tion in sev­er­al cat­e­gories of crime, as well as few­er crim­i­nal gangs in her zone of polic­ing.

Min­is­ter of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries Dr Roodal Mooni­lal has called on for­mer en­er­gy min­is­ter Stu­art Young to pub­licly con­demn what he de­scribed as a sus­pect­ed act of pipeline sab­o­tage in Bar­rack­pore, while dis­clos­ing claims from a res­i­dent sug­gest­ing pos­si­ble links to the Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM).

The Port-of-Spain City Cor­po­ra­tion has re­ceived a cheque val­ued at just over $2 mil­lion to fa­cil­i­tate the pay­ment of June 2026 salaries for its month­ly paid em­ploy­ees.