Still in shock over his bru­tal mur­der, a rel­a­tive of Amar Rooplal said she was first alert­ed through so­cial me­dia that a body with Amar tat­tooed on the fin­gers had been found in Ste Madeleine.

Two years af­ter the small and unas­sum­ing area shot in­to the lime­light fol­low­ing a spate of gang-re­lat­ed killings that claimed sev­en lives, res­i­dents are once more re­laxed enough to ven­ture out of their homes and even in­ter­act open­ly with the po­lice.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has re­vealed a sig­nif­i­cant short­fall in man­pow­er with­in the Trinidad and To­ba­go Fire Ser­vice, cit­ing a cur­rent short­age of 420 fire of­fi­cers across the coun­try.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr. Roodal Mooni­lal has an­nounced that he will lead a small, high-lev­el del­e­ga­tion to Wash­ing­ton D.C. from No­vem­ber 28 to 30 for a se­ries of strate­gic meet­ings aimed at deep­en­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go’s en­er­gy ties with the Unit­ed States.