High Court Judge West­min James has or­dered that a de­part­men­tal or­der is­sued on how po­lice of­fi­cers are as­sessed for pro­mo­tion is il­le­gal and with­out mer­it.

Af­ter 16 years at the helm of the Na­tion­al Union of Gov­ern­ment and Fed­er­at­ed Work­ers (NUGFW), James Lam­bert is no longer the union’s pres­i­dent gen­er­al.

What was sup­posed to be an am­i­ca­ble school in­ter­ven­tion be­tween two moth­ers to deal with a bul­ly­ing is­sue de­scend­ed in­to vi­o­lence and blood­shed out­side a sec­ondary school.

De­spite his grow­ing in­ter­est in con­tribut­ing to his home­land, for­mer Howard Uni­ver­si­ty pres­i­dent and phil­an­thropist Dr Wayne Fred­er­ick said yes­ter­day that he is sim­ply too hon­est to en­gage in pol­i­tics.

Siparia po­lice have re­vealed that they will not be lay­ing charges against three teenage boys from Siparia West Sec­ondary School, who al­leged­ly beat up a Form Two stu­dent in the school wash­room last week Wednes­day.

A 54-year-old man from Debe has been con­vict­ed of re­peat­ed­ly rap­ing his 14-year-old daugh­ter. 

Chil­dren’s Au­thor­i­ty Chair­man Mar­sha Bai­ley is call­ing on cit­i­zens to do more than sim­ply record and share videos of child abuse. Bai­ley urged them to take that cru­cial ex­tra step and re­port such in­ci­dents.

A 16-year-old boy from Chatham Vil­lage, Ce­dros, es­caped death af­ter two gun­men opened fire on him.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher yes­ter­day con­grat­u­lat­ed her of­fi­cers for what she said was out­stand­ing polic­ing that con­tributed to a safe and suc­cess­ful 2024 To­ba­go Car­ni­val for some 8,000-plus rev­ellers.

New­ly elect­ed pres­i­dent of the Wood­land Flood Ac­tion group Kevin Hard­uar has vowed to lead his com­mu­ni­ty in the fight for a flood-re­sis­tant Wood­land dur­ing his ad­dress at the com­mu­ni­ty’s Di­vali cel­e­bra­tion on Mon­day night.

In a me­dia re­lease, the TTPS said on Mon­day 28th Oc­to­ber 2024, Hongfei Wu, was ar­rest­ed by of­fi­cers of the Fi­nan­cial In­ves­ti­ga­tions Branch (FIB) and for­mal­ly charged with mon­ey laun­der­ing. 

A 23-year-old man from Snake Val­ley, Laven­tille is cur­rent­ly in po­lice cus­tody af­ter what the TTPS calls keen pow­ers of ob­ser­va­tion by po­lice which re­sult­ed in his ap­pre­hen­sion af­ter his in­volve­ment in a rob­bery with vi­o­lence in­ci­dent.