Af­ter eight tire­less days of search­ing for two-year-old An­ge­lo To­bias-Plaza, Val­lence Ramb­harat, leader of the Hunters’ Search and Res­cue Team, says his group are men­tal­ly and phys­i­cal­ly drained.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro says the leak of cru­cial ev­i­dence in the dis­ap­pear­ance of two-year-old An­ge­lo To­bias-Plaza led cops on a “wild goose chase” in To­ba­go.

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro yes­ter­day said an In­ter­pol Red No­tice has been is­sued for a fourth sus­pect in the con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the mur­der of act­ing cor­po­ral Anus­ka Ever­s­ley and the theft of firearms and am­mu­ni­tion from the San Fer­nan­do Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Sta­tion. He said the sus­pect may have fled the ju­ris­dic­tion.

Com­ments and ban­ter be­tween sec­ondary school stu­dents via so­cial me­dia are be­lieved to be be­hind an at­tack that left a 14-year-old boy un­con­scious on Wednes­day af­ter­noon.

What was sup­posed to be a mo­ment of cel­e­bra­tion turned in­to mourn­ing and re­flec­tion last evening, as rel­a­tives, friends and neigh­bours of Aki­ni Kafi came out to re­mem­ber him with a march call­ing for an end to gun vi­o­lence.

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro yes­ter­day sent a stern warn­ing to in­di­vid­u­als who con­tin­ue to par­tic­i­pate in home in­va­sions across the coun­try.

A young woman was blind­fold­ed and sex­u­al­ly as­sault­ed in her home by an in­trud­er who claimed some­one had sent him to kill her. The at­tack oc­curred on May 16 in Moru­ga.

For­mer For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs min­is­ter Amery Browne has ex­pressed shock and dis­ap­point­ment over Trinidad and To­ba­go’s de­ci­sion not to par­tic­i­pate in a key Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly vote on a cli­mate-re­lat­ed res­o­lu­tion tied to an ad­vi­so­ry opin­ion from the In­ter­na­tion­al Court of Jus­tice (ICJ).

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath says the Gov­ern­ment has full con­fi­dence that Land and Le­gal Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sad­dam Ho­sein and state en­ter­prise Land­mark­TT Prop­er­ties Lim­it­ed fol­lowed the prop­er pro­cure­ment pro­ce­dures in re­la­tion to the con­tro­ver­sial Al­lam­by Res­i­den­tial De­vel­op­ment project, now un­der in­ves­ti­ga­tion by the Of­fice of Pro­cure­ment Reg­u­la­tion (OPR).

As in­for­ma­tion emerges about Pro­cure­ment Reg­u­la­tor Bev­er­ly Khan’s pre­vi­ous role on the board of the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) un­der the last Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment ad­min­is­tra­tion, her for­mer line min­is­ter has come to her de­fence, de­scrib­ing Khan as a dec­o­rat­ed pub­lic ser­vant who al­so served on board and ad­vi­so­ry po­si­tions dur­ing the Peo­ple’s Part­ner­ship gov­ern­ment.

Jobs at Am­plia Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Lim­it­ed could be un­der threat as Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath says the state-owned TSTT sub­sidiary may be wound up, pend­ing the out­come of an in­ves­ti­ga­tion ex­pect­ed to be­gin in the com­ing months.

The East­ern Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (ER­HA) has been or­dered to pay com­pen­sa­tion to the fam­i­ly of a woman who died from an in­fec­tion she con­tract­ed at the San­gre Grande Dis­trict Hos­pi­tal af­ter un­der­go­ing a rou­tine op­er­a­tion in 2018.