A taxi dri­ver from To­ba­go has been freed of charges for al­leged­ly rap­ing a pas­sen­ger due to de­lays in pros­e­cut­ing his case.

Paul Nanan had been count­ing down the days to Christ­mas. His heart was full of hope as he bus­ied him­self work­ing hard with the hope that his two chil­dren would fi­nal­ly come to live with him.

A de­liv­ery dri­ver who went to drop off goods for a cus­tomer at Ja­cob Hill in Waller­field on Wednes­day morn­ing was kid­napped and lat­er robbed by four men be­fore they aban­doned him at an un­known lo­ca­tion.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing af­ter an in­ci­dent at a sec­ondary school in Cu­mu­to, in which two stu­dents were found hav­ing sex in the toi­let on Wednes­day.

The Unit­ed King­dom High Com­mis­sion based in Trinidad and To­ba­go has de­clined to com­ment on claims the UK gov­ern­ment stopped shar­ing in­tel­li­gence with the Unit­ed States about sus­pect­ed drug-traf­fick­ing ves­sels in the Caribbean.

Sev­er­al fam­i­lies in Biche say they now live in fear as crim­i­nal groups con­tin­ue to burn hous­es and fire on homes in the rur­al com­mu­ni­ty, leav­ing res­i­dents trau­ma­tised and un­able to sleep. Re­tirees and se­nior women are among those af­fect­ed, with vil­lagers claim­ing crim­i­nals en­ter prop­er­ties in the ear­ly hours with con­tain­ers of petrol to burn hous­es or shoot at them.

The In­di­an High Com­mis­sion has es­tab­lished an In­dia Cor­ner at the li­brary of the Par­lia­ment, fea­tur­ing a cu­rat­ed col­lec­tion of 351 books cov­er­ing top­ics such as In­di­an poli­ty, diplo­ma­cy, econ­o­my, his­to­ry, cul­ture, and the arts.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice has ex­pand­ed Op­er­a­tion Fes­tive Shield to the Cen­tral and South­ern Di­vi­sions, fol­low­ing Tues­day’s launch in Port of Spain and the West­ern Di­vi­sion.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has dis­missed as fake news a CNN re­port claim­ing the Unit­ed King­dom was with­hold­ing in­tel­li­gence shar­ing from the Unit­ed States over re­gion­al an­ti-drug op­er­a­tions, warn­ing that “there are bla­tant at­tempts to un­der­mine on­go­ing ef­forts to con­front nar­co-traf­fick­ers and or­gan­ised crime.”

New York At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Leti­tia James on Wednes­day led a coali­tion of 15 oth­er at­tor­neys gen­er­al in tak­ing ac­tion to de­fend Tem­po­rary Pro­tect­ed Sta­tus (TPS) for hun­dreds of thou­sands of Hait­ian and Venezue­lan im­mi­grants, in­clud­ing many who have lived, worked, and raised their fam­i­lies in the Unit­ed States for years.

Two women were robbed while walk­ing along the jog­ging track at Palmiste Park around 7:45 a.m. on Thurs­day.

A man has died fol­low­ing a road traf­fic ac­ci­dent along the south­bound lane of the Solomon Ho­choy High­way near In­di­an Trail ear­ly Thurs­day morn­ing.