Po­lice used non-lethal force to sub­due and de­tain two sus­pects who they said were act­ing vi­o­lent­ly and re­sist­ing ar­rest in two sep­a­rate in­ci­dents.

Kevon Mata­moro, akaal­so known as ‘Preach­er’ of Pin­to Road, Ari­ma, has been charged with mur­der fol­low­ing the ad­vice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions, Roger Gas­pard SC.

The Point Fortin De­sali­na­tion Plant is ex­pect­ed to un­der­go planned elec­tri­cal main­te­nance dur­ing this week, which will re­sult in an in­ter­rup­tion in the nor­mal pipe borne wa­ter sup­ply in parts of Point Fortin and La Brea sup­plied by the fa­cil­i­ty.

The sail­ings times for both the T&T Spir­it and the Jean De La Valette have been resched­uled for Mon­day 25 Jan­u­ary 2021—the date of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) elec­tions.

The world’s com­mem­o­ra­tion of the third In­ter­na­tion­al Ed­u­ca­tion Day oc­curs in the wake of the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic that led to a glob­al learn­ing dis­rup­tion of un­prece­dent­ed scale and sever­i­ty.

A 35-year-old Ari­ma man is ex­pect­ed to an­swer to the charge of mur­der, when he ap­pears in a vir­tu­al hear­ing be­fore the Ari­ma Mag­is­trates’ Court on Mon­day 25th Jan­u­ary 2021.

A Miss­ing Per­sons Alert has been ac­ti­vat­ed for an 18-year-old woman from Cunu­pia, who was re­port­ed miss­ing on Fri­day 22 Jan­u­ary 2021.

The de­ci­sion by Aus­tralian out­fit BHP to al­low the glob­al en­er­gy sec­tor ac­cess to its deep wa­ter seis­mic and well da­ta it ac­quired off­shore T&T is be­ing hailed by in­dus­try in­sid­ers as a ma­jor step in the right di­rec­tion. They say it is like­ly to sig­nif­i­cant­ly im­prove the Min­istry of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries’ at­tempt to at­tract com­pa­nies in its next deep-wa­ter bid-round.

A grim fu­ture for T&T’s con­struc­tion sec­tor as the price of steel has sky­rock­et­ed over the last few months.

Af­ter the British lost the Amer­i­can War of In­de­pen­dence they brought Merikin African War­rior Tribes who fought along­side them to es­tab­lish their new home in Moru­ga, Trinidad.

The Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty will be in­tro­duc­ing an on­line ap­pli­ca­tion sys­tem for trav­el ex­emp­tion re­quests to­mor­row.

Af­ter four weeks with­out a drop of wa­ter in their taps, res­i­dents of Ser­raneau Road Ex­ten­sion in Bel­mont are ap­peal­ing to the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) to ho­n­our their ba­sic right to re­ceive a reg­u­lar pipe-borne wa­ter sup­ply for which they are pay­ing.