Even with the coun­try un­der a State of Emer­gency (SoE), brazen ban­dits car­ried out a bru­tal home in­va­sion in Ste Madeleine around 3.30 pm on Mon­day, beat­ing and rob­bing the vic­tims.

Self-ex­iled Venezue­lan op­po­si­tion leader Ed­mun­do González, who claims to have de­feat­ed Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro in last year’s pres­i­den­tial elec­tion, said his son-in-law was kid­napped Tues­day in Venezuela’s cap­i­tal.

With less than two weeks be­fore Don­ald J. Trump is sworn in­to of­fice as the next pres­i­dent of the Unit­ed States, a Hait­ian group here is urg­ing the in­cum­bent Joe Biden ad­min­is­tra­tion to halt the de­por­ta­tion of Haitians.

Two bod­ies were found in the land­ing gear com­part­ment of a Jet­Blue air­craft at a South Flori­da air­port, au­thor­i­ties said.

Mu­si­cian and so­cial jus­tice ac­tivist Lou Lyons has de­mand­ed a pub­lic apol­o­gy from the South Caribbean Con­fer­ence of Sev­enth-Day Ad­ven­tist af­ter an im­age of him was shared in con­nec­tion with the mur­der of spe­cial pros­e­cu­tor Ran­dall Hec­tor.

A 25-year-old man from Wa­ter­hole, Co­corite, has been ar­rest­ed and charged in con­nec­tion with a re­port of rob­bery with vi­o­lence in the West­ern Di­vi­sion that oc­curred last year.

South­ern Di­vi­sion of­fi­cers have ar­rest­ed five in­di­vid­u­als dur­ing an op­er­a­tion on Jan­u­ary 6 where they seized a firearm, a quan­ti­ty of am­mu­ni­tion and cannabis.

The An­ju­man Sun­nat ul Ja­maat As­so­ci­a­tion Inc. (AS­JA) has called for ur­gent ac­tion fol­low­ing the des­e­cra­tion of a mosque in Cen­tral Trinidad, al­leged­ly per­pe­trat­ed by a non-Mus­lim com­mu­ni­ty mem­ber.

The in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the Fire Ser­vice's re­sponse to the trag­ic blaze that claimed the lives of D’Abadie/O’Meara MP and Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion, Lisa Mor­ris-Ju­lian, 48, and two of her chil­dren is still on­go­ing.

The fu­ner­al ser­vice for mur­dered spe­cial state pros­e­cu­tor Ran­dall Hec­tor will take place on Thurs­day.

Chrisal­ston Belle has been ap­point­ed Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion's (T&TEC) new Gen­er­al Man­ag­er. He will re­place cur­rent GM, Curvis Fran­cois, who re­tired from the com­mis­sion in No­vem­ber af­ter 38 years of ser­vice.

A mem­ber of the PNM's par­lia­men­tary cau­cus con­firms that yes­ter­day's vote count to se­lect a new Prime Min­is­ter was in­deed 11 to 9.