Days af­ter he went pub­lic with claims of a long-run­ning bribery rack­et at the Im­mi­gra­tion Di­vi­sion, Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der is ex­pect­ed to hand over doc­u­ments to se­nior po­lice of­fi­cials to sup­port fur­ther in­ves­ti­ga­tions.

A del­e­ga­tion of Venezue­lan mi­grants and in­dige­nous peo­ple, led by the La Ca­sitas His­pan­ic Cul­tur­al Cen­tre, vis­it­ed the Min­istry of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty at the Wa­ter­front Com­plex in Port-of-Spain on Wednes­day as con­cerns in­ten­si­fied over missed ap­point­ments, failed on­line reg­is­tra­tions and the lack of of­fi­cial re­spons­es.

Trinidad and To­ba­go is among 12 coun­tries in the Sheild of the Amer­i­c­as ini­tia­tive, ex­press­ing con­cern over on­go­ing protests and road block­ades in Bo­livia, warn­ing against ac­tions that could desta­bilise the South Amer­i­can na­tion’s de­mo­c­ra­t­i­cal­ly elect­ed gov­ern­ment.

The woman left paral­ysed af­ter the po­lice shoot­ing that killed Joshua Sama­roo is now fac­ing crim­i­nal charges linked to the same in­ci­dent, months af­ter video footage of the shoot­ing sparked pub­lic out­rage and calls for ac­count­abil­i­ty.

Three stu­dents are ex­pect­ed to be placed on ex­tend­ed in­def­i­nite sus­pen­sion pend­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to a fight which was cap­tured on video and cir­cu­lat­ed on so­cial me­dia.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors con­tin­ue en­quiries in­to the death of a man, iden­ti­fied as Ryan John, who was found on the premis­es of a house on Rail­way Road, San­gre Grande.

Po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tors have been di­rect­ed to pur­sue crim­i­nal charges in con­nec­tion with the po­lice in­volved shoot­ing death of Joshua Sama­roo, fol­low­ing con­sul­ta­tions with the Of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP), ac­cord­ing to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS).

A young woman was blind­fold­ed and sex­u­al­ly as­sault­ed in her home by an in­trud­er who claimed some­one had sent him to kill her.

Hy­att Re­gency Trinidad has do­nat­ed part of the pro­ceeds from its an­nu­al LIME Car­ni­val event to Unit­ed Way Trinidad and To­ba­go and Kids in Need of Di­rec­tion, con­tin­u­ing the ho­tel’s com­mu­ni­ty out­reach ef­forts.

Se­nior gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials, reg­u­la­tors, tech­nol­o­gy ex­ec­u­tives and pri­vate sec­tor lead­ers end­ed the sec­ond an­nu­al Am­pli­fy Sum­mit with a strong call for the Caribbean to ac­cel­er­ate dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion to im­prove long-term eco­nom­ic re­silience and re­gion­al com­pet­i­tive­ness.

Na­tion­al En­er­gy is still try­ing to col­lect mil­lions in dis­put­ed port fees from Cana­di­an fer­tilis­er gi­ant Nu­trien, even though the com­pa­ny’s Point Lisas ni­tro­gen plant has been shut down since Oc­to­ber last year.

"Stick to your guns and do your job ac­cord­ing to the law, which is there to pro­tect you."