Po­lice have placed some sus­pect­ed gang mem­bers held dur­ing the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE) un­der house ar­rest as they con­tin­ue to tar­get those they have iden­ti­fied as pri­or­i­ty of­fend­ers.

On Mon­day, Amelia took her first steps in­to the Claps Acad­e­my, weeks af­ter Guardian Me­dia high­light­ed her strug­gles.

Days af­ter the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment an­nounced that Stu­art Young will suc­ceed Dr Kei­th Row­ley as Prime Min­is­ter, three of the five Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) dis­si­dents have called for the Op­po­si­tion par­ty to evolve and strength­en its in­sti­tu­tion­al frame­work, as­sert­ing that its fu­ture suc­cess hinges on its abil­i­ty to adapt to the evolv­ing needs of the elec­torate.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has hit back at Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine, ac­cus­ing him of mis­lead­ing the pub­lic and “tak­ing To­bag­o­ni­ans for fools” with his claims about To­ba­go’s au­ton­o­my.

The Na­tion­al Coun­cil of the Con­gress of the Peo­ple (COP) will meet on Sat­ur­day to of­fi­cial­ly ap­prove Prakash Ra­mad­har as the par­ty’s new po­lit­i­cal leader.

Se­vere staff short­ages and out­dat­ed leg­is­la­tion have crip­pled the ef­forts of state agen­cies to com­bat il­le­gal squat­ting in Trinidad with dev­as­tat­ing con­se­quences for the coun­try’s for­est re­serves. Com­mis­sion­er of State Lands (COSL) Paula Drakes re­vealed that squat­ter de­vel­op­ments have en­croached on 50-60 per cent of for­est re­serves in North and Cen­tral Trinidad.

For­mer Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) pres­i­dent Wat­son Duke has failed in yet an­oth­er at­tempt to have the union pay him a pen­sion while he pur­sues a law­suit over its re­fusal to pay it.

A woman, whose moth­er died sud­den­ly a lit­tle over a month be­fore she was due to cel­e­brate her 49th birth­day in 2019, has failed in her bid to sue her moth­er’s for­mer em­ploy­er, the ad­min­is­tra­tors of the hos­pi­tal that treat­ed her and the po­lice for fail­ing to prop­er­ly in­ves­ti­gate her death.

A 19-year-old man was killed and his moth­er in­jured af­ter they were am­bushed and shot on Tues­day in Bel­mont.

The Min­istry of Gen­der and Child Af­fairs is hop­ing that there will be a clos­er col­lab­o­ra­tion with the po­lice and civ­il so­ci­ety or­gan­i­sa­tions when it comes to treat­ing with vic­tims of do­mes­tic and gen­der-based vi­o­lence.

A man who kid­napped and raped his ex-girl­friend on Mon­day is now in cus­tody af­ter she was res­cued by po­lice in Princes Town.

A Venezue­lan man’s at­tempt to es­cape po­lice cus­tody was thwart­ed yes­ter­day morn­ing when of­fi­cers from the Cunu­pia Po­lice Sta­tion quick­ly ap­pre­hend­ed him.