The Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) has won a le­gal chal­lenge over the pro­cure­ment process it used for an up­grade to its video sur­veil­lance sys­tem.

A US court on Wednes­day heard ar­gu­ments from at­tor­neys rep­re­sent­ing two Trinida­di­an men who are su­ing the Unit­ed States over the deaths of their loved ones dur­ing US at­tacks on sus­pect­ed drug car­tels in the re­gion last year.

A 38-year-old man was shot and killed while sit­ting in his ve­hi­cle in Char­lieville, Ch­agua­nas, on Wednes­day evening.

Po­lice have de­tained a 69-year-old West­moor­ings busi­ness­woman as part of the on­go­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­volv­ing busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed and his wife Genevieve.

There have been no re­ports of Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­als be­ing killed or in­jured fol­low­ing the pow­er­ful earth­quakes in Venezuela, ac­cord­ing to the Min­istry of For­eign and CARI­COM Af­fairs.

A woman ac­cused of par­tic­i­pat­ing in an al­leged TT$20 mil­lion fraud­u­lent cheque scheme has been grant­ed TT$6 mil­lion bail and or­dered to sur­ren­der her pass­port pend­ing the out­come of court pro­ceed­ings.

A 38-year-old man was shot dead while sit­ting in his ve­hi­cle in Char­lieville, Ch­agua­nas, on Wednes­day evening.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine said the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) will need to freeze hir­ings in the fu­ture.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has pledged Trinidad and To­ba­go’s sup­port to earth­quake-rav­aged Venezuela, say­ing the Gov­ern­ment stands ready to pro­vide hu­man­i­tar­i­an as­sis­tance as the neigh­bour­ing coun­try grap­ples with wide­spread dev­as­ta­tion.

The Law As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (LATT) has bro­ken its si­lence on the State of Emer­gency and the Gov­ern­ment's ban on protests near key state in­sti­tu­tions, ques­tion­ing whether the re­stric­tions are con­sti­tu­tion­al­ly jus­ti­fied and call­ing for ev­i­dence to sup­port con­tin­ued emer­gency pow­ers.

Prime Min­is­ter Philip J. Pierre has ex­tend­ed con­do­lences on be­half of the Gov­ern­ment and Peo­ple of Saint Lu­cia to Venezuela fol­low­ing the dev­as­tat­ing earth­quakes that caused sig­nif­i­cant loss of life and wide­spread de­struc­tion.

The Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) has ex­pressed con­do­lences fol­low­ing the dev­as­tat­ing earth­quakes that struck Venezuela on Wednes­day, leav­ing peo­ple dead and in­jured and caus­ing wide­spread dam­age to homes and in­fra­struc­ture.