Eleven in­di­vid­u­als have been charged fol­low­ing an in­ter­cep­tion by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Coast Guard (TTCG) off the Erin coast on Fri­day.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) said mul­ti­ple an­ti-crime op­er­a­tions con­duct­ed over the East­er week­end led to sev­er­al ar­rests for am­mu­ni­tion-re­lat­ed of­fences in the South West­ern Di­vi­sion.

A bill for Trinidad and To­ba­go to work with the Unit­ed States for more ef­fec­tive bor­der se­cu­ri­ty is ex­pect­ed to be pre­sent­ed to Par­lia­ment on Fri­day.

While it was a rainy East­er Mon­day for many, some homes and res­i­dents in Phase Four, Beetham Gar­dens, were drenched for more than 12 hours by cas­cad­ing wa­ter from a Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) pipeline, rather than burst­ing clouds.

The T&T Na­tion­al Nurs­es As­so­ci­a­tion (TTNNA) has claimed a ca­su­al­ty in its on­go­ing in­dus­tri­al re­la­tions bat­tle with the North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA). 

Sec­re­tary of Tourism Zor­isha Hack­ett is say­ing a heart­felt thank you to Trinida­di­ans, as she de­clared do­mes­tic tourism boom­ing for the East­er week­end.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) says it is man­ag­ing the sup­ply of wa­ter in To­ba­go de­spite chal­lenges dur­ing the cru­cial East­er pe­ri­od.

State-owned en­er­gy com­pa­ny Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um Ltd has been or­dered to re­con­sid­er its de­ci­sion to refuse to dis­close a list of its em­ploy­ees and their salaries. 

A 47-year-old man from San Fer­nan­do has been sen­tenced to a lit­tle over four months in prison for steal­ing pow­er tools from a fam­i­ly he knew. 

Re­spond­ing to re­ports that a man was beat­en and threat­ened with sodomy if he could not pay $20,000 in cash, Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty and Tu­na­puna MP Roger Alexan­der said such at­tacks were un­ac­cept­able and warned that a firm, de­ci­sive re­sponse from law en­force­ment was nec­es­sary to main­tain or­der.

A care­less mo­ment with a lit cig­a­rette has been blamed for an ear­ly morn­ing fire that de­stroyed a wood­en home in Debe on Sun­day.

The rob­bery oc­curred around 10.30 am on Sun­day morn­ing while the 57-year-old dri­ver was dri­ving east along the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route (PBR).