Po­lice ar­rest­ed a 49-year-old Point Fortin man af­ter un­cov­er­ing a cannabis cul­ti­va­tion op­er­a­tion at his home on Tues­day.

The Gov­ern­ment says it is seek­ing to bor­row up to US$1 bil­lion on the in­ter­na­tion­al mar­ket and has ap­point­ed J.P. Mor­gan Se­cu­ri­ties LLC and Bank of Amer­i­ca Se­cu­ri­ties Inc. as joint lead man­agers and arrangers for the is­suance.

A fa­ther was alert­ed to in­trud­ers in­side his Pe­nal home by the screams of his daugh­ter dur­ing a vi­o­lent home in­va­sion on Tues­day night.

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump is set to meet Thurs­day at the White House with Venezue­lan op­po­si­tion leader María Co­ri­na Macha­do, whose po­lit­i­cal par­ty is wide­ly con­sid­ered to have won 2024 elec­tions re­ject­ed by then-Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro, be­fore the Unit­ed States cap­tured him in an au­da­cious mil­i­tary raid this month.

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.