One man has been ar­rest­ed and a cache of il­le­gal am­mu­ni­tion and cannabis seized fol­low­ing a po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing in the North East­ern Di­vi­sion last night.

A gyp­sum "mud­man" from Va­len­cia has been con­vict­ed of re­peat­ed­ly bug­ger­ing a 15-year-old boy, whom he took in af­ter the boy ran away from home over a decade ago.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice is seek­ing pub­lic as­sis­tance in the ur­gent search for 28-year-old Na­ho­mi Lis­beth Lu­cart Ce­de­no, who has been re­port­ed miss­ing from Ch­agua­nas.

A Trinidad-based en­vi­ron­men­tal in­no­va­tion group is of­fer­ing its ex­per­tise to Gov­ern­ment as it moves to tack­le the an­nu­al sar­gas­sum in­va­sion, say­ing the sea­weed can be con­vert­ed in­to fer­tilis­er and oth­er agri­cul­tur­al prod­ucts to strength­en food se­cu­ri­ty.

Prime Min­is­ter of St Kitts and Nevis, Dr. Ter­rance M. Drew, on Mon­day vis­it­ed the J.N. France Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal to en­sure the safe­ty of all pas­sen­gers tak­en to the med­ical in­sti­tu­tion fol­low­ing an in­ci­dent in the Bas­seterre har­bour.

For those trapped in rub­ble af­ter an earth­quake, sur­vival de­pends on many fac­tors, in­clud­ing weath­er and ac­cess to wa­ter and air.

With the win­dow for find­ing sur­vivors shrink­ing fast, Venezue­lans combed Mon­day through more ru­ins of build­ings top­pled by last week’s dev­as­tat­ing back-to-back earth­quakes, and a 4.6 mag­ni­tude af­ter­shock rum­bled through the dis­as­ter zone in the north­ern state of La Guaira.

Trinidad and To­ba­go has launched a na­tion­wide hu­man­i­tar­i­an re­lief cam­paign for earth­quake-rav­aged Venezuela, with col­lec­tion points open­ing across the coun­try and a dis­as­ter re­lief fund es­tab­lished to re­ceive pub­lic and cor­po­rate do­na­tions.

Po­lice of­fi­cers ar­rest­ed three peo­ple and seized a quan­ti­ty of cannabis dur­ing a se­ries of in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tions across the North­ern North Di­vi­sion on Sun­day.

Stu­dents who sat the SEA ex­am will get their re­sults on Thurs­day, ac­cord­ing to the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion.

A 46-year-old busi­ness­man was stabbed to death af­ter get­ting in­to an ar­gu­ment with a woman he was in a re­la­tion­ship with at her Ch­agua­nas home on Sun­day night.

Lawyers rep­re­sent­ing busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed and his wife, Genevieve, are ques­tion­ing whether they were be­ing in­ves­ti­gat­ed un­der Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions for the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE) be­fore be­ing is­sued with Pre­ven­ta­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) on Sat­ur­day.