Al­most two weeks af­ter po­lice first raid­ed the Drugs Sou-Sou head­quar­ters in La Hor­quet­ta, own­er Ker­ron Clarke reached out to Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith through a con­fi­den­tial in­for­mant ask­ing for asy­lum for him­self and his fam­i­ly and im­mu­ni­ty in ex­change for ex­pos­ing crooked po­lice of­fi­cers and sol­diers who have been in­volved in DSS op­er­a­tions.

A 23-year-old man is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore a Port-of-Spain Mag­is­trate to­day, Wednes­day 28 Oc­to­ber 2020, charged with the mur­der of Joshua For­tune, who was killed last year.

Two men, ages 25 and 29 years, are ex­pect­ed to ap­pear in a vir­tu­al hear­ing be­fore an Ari­ma Mag­is­trate to­day, Wednes­day 28th Oc­to­ber 2020, charged with the ab­duc­tion of a fe­male and sex­u­al pen­e­tra­tion of a mi­nor.

THA Chief Sec­re­tar An­cil K. Den­nis met with the Air­port Re­lo­ca­tion Com­mit­tee (ARC) on Mon­day at the Di­vi­sion of Tourism, Cul­ture and Trans­porta­tion. From left areARC Sec­re­tary So­nia McLetchie and Chair­man Al­lan Richards, THA Chief Sec­re­tary Hon. An­cil K. Den­nis, Area Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Clarence Ja­cob, Se­nior State Coun­sel at the Of­fice of the Chief Sec­re­tary, Les­ley Gray, and Di­rec­tor of the Land Man­age­ment De­part­ment Cherece Wal­lace. Not pic­tured, Project Of­fi­cer (Set­tle­ments) Morenike Adekale. Pho­to cour­tesy De­part­ment of In­for­ma­tion.

The vic­tims, ages 23 and 24 years, told po­lice that at about 10:30 pm, they were stand­ing along Plover Av­enue when a white Nis­san B15 pulled up along­side them.

A po­lice of­fi­cer cur­rent­ly on sus­pen­sion was ar­rest­ed, af­ter he al­leged­ly groped an off-du­ty po­lice woman while in a maxi on Tues­day.

North East To­ba­go has been award­ed the pres­ti­gious UN­ESCO Man and the Bios­phere des­ig­na­tion and is now the largest UN­ESCO site in the Eng­lish Speak­ing Caribbean span­ning 15 com­mu­ni­ties from Belle Gar­den in the east to­wards Mo­ri­ah in the north­ern part of the is­land.

A Cuban na­tion­al is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore a Port-of-Spain mag­is­trate to­day, Wednes­day 28 Oc­to­ber 2020, af­ter be­ing charged with the mur­der of Jhandrys Es­pinoza, a 32-year-old Venezue­lan na­tion­al, who was three months preg­nant when she was killed.

A High Court Judge has strong­ly crit­i­cised for­mer Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials for their han­dling of op­po­si­tion to the con­struc­tion of the con­tro­ver­sial Debe to Mon De­sir seg­ment of the Point Fortin High­way project.

Po­lice of­fi­cers act­ing swift­ly on the re­port of an ab­duc­tion were able to res­cue the vic­tim and ar­rest the three al­leged ab­duc­tors yes­ter­day.

Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion and Dig­i­tal Trans­for­ma­tion Allyson West says Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley’s call for the full re­turn of the pub­lic ser­vants to work on Mon­day was mis­in­ter­pret­ed.

Agri­cul­ture Min­is­ter Clarence Ramb­harat says T&T has the ca­pac­i­ty to feed it­self and enough land to boost food pro­duc­tion for ex­port.