The North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA) has de­nied claims cir­cu­lat­ing on so­cial me­dia re­gard­ing the res­ig­na­tion of three reg­is­tered nurs­es em­ployed by the au­thor­i­ty.

Po­lice said around 2:50am, a rel­a­tive was in the liv­ing room of their home when she heard sev­er­al loud ex­plo­sions, and lat­er dis­cov­ered Brath­waite on the ground out­side bleed­ing from gun­shot wounds.

De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge has con­firmed that 23-month-old Aki­ni Kafi was killed in a reprisal at­tack, linked to the in­ci­dent that led to the mur­der of nine-year-old J’lay­na Arm­strong in April.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says she is heart­bro­ken over the re­cent triple killing in Bel­mont that claimed the lives of 23-month-old Aki­ni Kafi, his fa­ther Aquil Kafi and fam­i­ly friend An­tho­ny Wil­son.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der says Bel­mont res­i­dents are “high­ly an­noyed” over Thurs­day’s triple mur­ders in the com­mu­ni­ty, be­cause they want­ed a Zone of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions (ZOSO) in the area.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les says she is pre­pared to work with the Gov­ern­ment to tack­le crime fol­low­ing the Bel­mont killings that left two-year-old Aki­ni Kafi, his fa­ther Aquil Kafi and An­tho­ny Wil­son dead.

The killing of 23-month-old tod­dler Aki­ni Kafi, along­side two men in Bel­mont on Thurs­day, the sec­ond child-linked tragedy to rock Trinidad and To­ba­go in un­der two months, has trig­gered re­newed alarm among re­li­gious lead­ers.

The Op­po­si­tion has re­ject­ed claims that Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions (ZOSO) leg­is­la­tion could have pre­vent­ed the Bel­mont triple mur­der that left a tod­dler dead, even as the Gov­ern­ment de­fends the ef­fec­tive­ness of the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SOE) and con­tin­ues to pro­mote ZOSO as part of its wider crime strat­e­gy.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has sought to clar­i­fy com­ments that ap­peared to sug­gest he would sup­port a cur­few, af­ter a triple shoot­ing in Bel­mont left two men and a tod­dler dead and re­newed pub­lic con­cern over vi­o­lent crime.

Stu­dents, par­ents and teach­ers at the Bel­mont Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School yes­ter­day marched around the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, Port-of-Spain, to pro­mote peace and love.

A Bel­mont teenag­er was shot in the leg dur­ing an al­leged dri­ve-by shoot­ing yes­ter­day af­ter­noon.

Af­ter spend­ing hours in cap­tiv­i­ty, a 43-year-old San­ta Cruz man was res­cued by po­lice af­ter be­ing tak­en from his home at gun­point yes­ter­day morn­ing.