The lat­est pre­ven­tive de­ten­tion or­ders is­sued un­der the State of Emer­gency ac­cuse de­tainees of crimes rang­ing from run­ning an ex­tor­tion net­work linked to Venezuela to steal­ing in­dus­tri­al ma­te­ri­als for the scrap met­al trade, ac­cord­ing to no­tices pub­lished in the Trinidad and To­ba­go Gazette.

A Spe­cial Re­serve Po­lice of­fi­cer, work­ing as a ride-share dri­ver, es­caped death af­ter he was at­tacked with a knife dur­ing a job in San Fer­nan­do.

The Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) has re­ject­ed al­le­ga­tions sur­round­ing the fi­nanc­ing of its Bal­isi­er House head­quar­ters, ac­cus­ing the Gov­ern­ment of us­ing State re­sources to pur­sue po­lit­i­cal op­po­nents in­stead of ad­dress­ing is­sues such as crime, the econ­o­my, un­em­ploy­ment, health­care and ed­u­ca­tion.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Prison Ser­vice is mov­ing to trans­form the prison sys­tem from one fo­cused on in­car­cer­a­tion to one cen­tred on re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion and rein­te­gra­tion.

The or­gan­is­ers of the Gen­er­a­tions of Steel con­cert say tonight's show will go ahead de­spite the with­draw­al of three head­line steel or­ches­tras, while of­fer­ing re­funds to pa­trons who no longer wish to at­tend.

A sec­ond Diego Mar­tin man has been charged with the mur­der of 19-year-old Jay­den Rouff, who was fa­tal­ly stabbed dur­ing J’Ou­vert cel­e­bra­tions in Port of Spain ear­li­er this year.

The Gov­ern­ment has banned the ex­port of cop­per for one year, al­low­ing on­ly li­censed man­u­fac­tur­ers to ex­port the met­al un­der strict con­di­tions fol­low­ing a surge in cop­per theft and van­dal­ism of crit­i­cal in­fra­struc­ture.

Con­cerns are be­gin­ning to emerge over the Gov­ern­ment's plans to pur­sue large-scale da­ta cen­tre de­vel­op­ment, with some mem­bers of the pub­lic ques­tion­ing the po­ten­tial en­vi­ron­men­tal and in­fra­struc­ture im­pacts of the pro­posed projects.

The Gov­ern­ment has signed a Mem­o­ran­dum of Un­der­stand­ing (MOU) with Pin­na­cle Steel and Vana­di­um Cor­po­ra­tion to be­gin dis­cus­sions on the re­fur­bish­ment, recom­mis­sion­ing and op­er­a­tion of the for­mer iron and steel plant at Point Lisas.

The lat­est pre­ven­tive de­ten­tion or­ders is­sued un­der the State of Emer­gency ac­cuse de­tainees of roles rang­ing from run­ning an ex­tor­tion net­work linked to Venezuela to steal­ing in­dus­tri­al ma­te­ri­als for the scrap met­al trade, ac­cord­ing to no­tices pub­lished in the Trinidad and To­ba­go Gazette.

At­tor­neys rep­re­sent­ing two men cur­rent­ly de­tained on Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) have chal­lenged Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der to jus­ti­fy their con­tin­ued de­ten­tions.

For­mer at­tor­ney gen­er­al Camille Robin­son-Reg­is has re­ject­ed al­le­ga­tions that she rushed the ap­proval of lease agree­ments in­volv­ing busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed’s Blue Wa­ters Prod­ucts Ltd com­pa­ny short­ly be­fore the 2025 gen­er­al elec­tion, say­ing the mat­ter had un­der­gone years of re­view by le­gal of­fi­cers.