Thieves tar­get­ed two homes in a hous­ing de­vel­op­ment in Princes Town on Tues­day, in­clud­ing the res­i­dence of a po­lice of­fi­cer, mak­ing off with cash, am­mu­ni­tion and oth­er items.

A 78-year-old Princes Town pen­sion­er was at­tacked by ban­dits, tied up and robbed in her home short­ly af­ter mid­day on Tues­day.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath has is­sued a warn­ing that mis­man­age­ment and cor­rup­tion in wa­ter truck­ing will no longer be tol­er­at­ed, as the Gov­ern­ment rolled out four wa­ter truck­ing tank farms across South Trinidad to bring re­lief to res­i­dents dur­ing the dry sea­son.

A Chi­nese em­ploy­ee was in­jured af­ter be­ing as­sault­ed with a bro­ken bot­tle dur­ing a rob­bery at a su­per­mar­ket in San Fer­nan­do on Mon­day night.

Tem­po­rary hous­ing ac­com­mo­da­tion was pro­vid­ed to fam­i­lies dis­placed by a fire in Fort Pic­ton, Laven­tille, fol­low­ing in­struc­tions from Min­is­ter of Hous­ing David Lee. The fire claimed the life of pen­sion­er Ver­na Rigault. The ac­com­mo­da­tion was arranged through the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion at a near­by hous­ing de­vel­op­ment af­ter a re­quest for as­sis­tance from Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Laven­tille West Ka­reem Mar­celle.

A fed­er­al of­fi­cer shot a man in the leg in Min­neapo­lis af­ter be­ing at­tacked with a shov­el and broom han­dle, fur­ther height­en­ing the sense of fear and anger ra­di­at­ing across the city a week af­ter an im­mi­gra­tion agent fa­tal­ly shot a woman in the head.

As the State of Emer­gency (SoE) comes to an end in the com­ing weeks, the Gov­ern­ment’s next move will tar­get hotspots. At­tor­ney Gen­er­al (AG) John Je­re­mie yes­ter­day re­vealed the Gov­ern­ment’s plan to im­ple­ment Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions (ZOSO), which by law will em­pow­er law en­force­ment when it comes to com­bat­ting crime in hotspot ar­eas. A sim­i­lar le­gal frame­work ex­ists in Ja­maica.

Founder and di­rec­tor of the Black Agen­da Project and chair­man of the Na­tion­al Li­brary and In­for­ma­tion Sys­tem Au­thor­i­ty (NALIS), Dr David Muham­mad, is hop­ing that the Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions (ZOSOS) will not be used in a racial­ly dis­crim­i­na­to­ry man­ner or to stig­ma­tise com­mu­ni­ties.

A pro­posed se­cu­ri­ty law to be de­bat­ed in Par­lia­ment to­mor­row will give Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar the pow­er to de­clare high-crime com­mu­ni­ties “Spe­cial Zones,” sub­ject to search with­out a war­rant and cur­fews last­ing up to 72 hours.

Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­als are ex­empt from the list of 75 coun­tries af­fect­ed by a Unit­ed States de­ci­sion to sus­pend the pro­cess­ing of cer­tain visas.

At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie says no in­ter­na­tion­al law was bro­ken when the Unit­ed States killed sup­posed drug traf­fick­ers in the lead-up to oust­ing Venezue­lan pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro.

With ap­prox­i­mate­ly one month to go un­til Car­ni­val Mon­day and Tues­day, mas­quer­aders can vis­it at least four bands across the coun­try to pur­chase cos­tumes, with lead­ers re­port­ing that sales are gen­er­al­ly steady, though not ex­plo­sive.