While many fam­i­lies spent Di­vali with loved ones yes­ter­day, Hes­per Ali-Dar­soo was cry­ing at the grave of her el­dest son and youngest grand­daugh­ter, who were gunned down in Moru­ga on Au­gust 21.

The in­ci­dent oc­curred as Cen­tral Di­vi­sion po­lice were re­spond­ing to a re­port of a rob­bery at an ice fac­to­ry at Ca­paro Bras­so Val­ley Road in­volv­ing four gun­men. They were giv­en the li­cence plate num­ber of the al­leged get­away ve­hi­cle.

One day af­ter the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice was or­dered to dis­con­tin­ue a de­part­men­tal or­der used to as­sess po­lice of­fi­cers for pro­mo­tion, Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher pro­mot­ed 25 po­lice of­fi­cers.

While stake­hold­ers es­ti­mat­ed that To­ba­go’s Oc­to­ber Car­ni­val drew be­tween 30,000 and 37,000 vis­i­tors, Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots (PDP) leader Wat­son Duke has ques­tioned the fes­ti­val’s over­all im­pact on the is­land’s econ­o­my.

A teacher, whose pro­mo­tion was de­layed for over a decade, is set to re­ceive over half a mil­lion dol­lars in com­pen­sa­tion.

De­spite the es­tab­lish­ment of an Ex­tor­tion Unit with­in the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice, Ch­agua­nas Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce pres­i­dent Bal­dath Ma­haraj says busi­ness­peo­ple in cen­tral Trinidad are be­com­ing in­creas­ing­ly fear­ful of re­port­ing ex­tor­tion to po­lice, with many avoid­ing not on­ly Di­vali fes­tiv­i­ties but all so­cial en­gage­ments.

A High Court Judge has agreed to add a con­sul­tan­cy com­pa­ny to a law­suit over the pro­mo­tion as­sess­ment process for the rank of As­sis­tant Su­per­in­ten­dent of Po­lice (ASP). 

Oropouche East MP Dr Roodal Mooni­lal has urged cit­i­zens to re­spect women, chil­dren and the el­der­ly. He made the call as he de­liv­ered his Di­vali mes­sage at Debe Junc­tion on Tues­day night.

Ka­mala Har­ris and Don­ald Trump are mak­ing their fi­nal push­es in key states in the U.S. Pres­i­den­tial race’s clos­ing days.

Hun­dreds of items have been do­nat­ed by Flow em­ploy­ees to sup­port can­cer pa­tients at the Cau­ra Pal­lia­tive Care Unit.

Oropouche West MP Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo says he is con­cerned that cit­i­zens’ pri­vate bank­ing in­for­ma­tion could be eas­i­ly ac­cessed by Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials, fol­low­ing re­cent ut­ter­ances by Min­is­ter of Fi­nance Colm Im­bert, over the cur­rent for­eign ex­change cri­sis.

The gov­ern­ment of the Cen­tral Amer­i­can na­tion of El Sal­vador on Wednes­day ap­proved send­ing a mil­i­tary con­tin­gent to this French speak­ing Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) mem­ber state to as­sist in med­ical evac­u­a­tion op­er­a­tions as part of the Kenya-led Multi­na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Sup­port Mis­sion (MMAS).