A wall in­side First Cit­i­zens Bank in Siparia was dam­aged af­ter a se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cer’s firearm ac­ci­den­tal­ly dis­charged on Mon­day.

A re­tired po­lice of­fi­cer who was retroac­tive­ly pro­mot­ed from the rank of cor­po­ral to sergeant has been giv­en the all-clear to sue the State over the de­lay in his pro­mo­tion, which he claims vi­o­lat­ed his con­sti­tu­tion­al rights.

De­fence at­tor­ney An­ton Gran­tum, was grant­ed $90,000 bail yes­ter­day af­ter he ap­peared in court charged with pos­ses­sion of a gun and am­mu­ni­tion.

Re­tired po­lice of­fi­cer Ger­ald "Fat­man" Kissoon was or­dered to com­pen­sate his neigh­bour, whom he shot last year, in or­der to avoid prison time.

Po­lice Con­sta­ble Kerdell Bernard Castil­lo has been grant­ed $250,000 af­ter ap­pear­ing in court charged with mis­be­hav­iour in pub­lic of­fice.

Khadi­jah Ameen, Min­is­ter of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment, con­firmed to­day that 13 homes in West­moor­ings North suf­fered roof dam­age fol­low­ing a weak tor­na­do. Some roofs were com­plete­ly blown off, while oth­ers were par­tial­ly af­fect­ed. No in­juries have been re­port­ed.

The Caribbean Cli­mate-Smart Ac­cel­er­a­tor Inc. (CC­SA) and the In­sti­tute of Char­tered Ac­coun­tants of the Caribbean (ICAC) have signed a Mem­o­ran­dum of Un­der­stand­ing to ad­vance cli­mate-smart trans­for­ma­tion across the re­gion.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has ex­pressed con­fi­dence in the ju­di­cial sys­tem fol­low­ing the ar­rest of Min­is­ter of Hous­ing David Lee and busi­ness­man Hugh Leong Poi ear­li­er to­day.

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro re­ceived ju­di­cial war­rants around 12:15 pm to­day for the ap­pre­hen­sion of David Lee, Min­is­ter of Hous­ing and Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Ca­roni Cen­tral, and Hugh Leong Poi, Pro­pri­etor of Sport Out­let Lim­it­ed.

Pres­i­dent of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce, Son­ji Pierre Chase, vis­it­ed As­so­ci­at­ed Brands Colom­bia SAS, the home of Sun­shine Ce­re­als pro­duc­tion, as part of ef­forts to strength­en trade ties be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go and Colom­bia.

The board of the First Cit­i­zens Group Fi­nan­cial Hold­ings Ltd (FCGFH) has ten­dered its res­ig­na­tion to­day, ahead of to­mor­row’s spe­cial gen­er­al meet­ing at which new board mem­bers are sched­uled to be nom­i­nat­ed.

The Eu­ro­pean Union Del­e­ga­tion to Trinidad and To­ba­go has an­nounced the ap­point­ment of Am­bas­sador Ce­cile Tassin as the new Eu­ro­pean Union Am­bas­sador to Trinidad and To­ba­go. Am­bas­sador Tassin pre­sent­ed her cre­den­tials to Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Car­la Kan­ga­loo, ORTT, fol­low­ing a cour­tesy call to the Min­istry of For­eign and CARI­COM Af­fairs.