One in every four chil­dren in Trinidad and To­ba­go is over­weight or obese, Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe warned on Sun­day as he called for greater em­pha­sis on phys­i­cal ac­tiv­i­ty and health­i­er eat­ing to com­bat the coun­try's grow­ing child­hood obe­si­ty cri­sis.

The jet ski op­er­a­tor al­leged to have caused the death of sev­en-year-old An­gel­i­ca Jo­gie at Pi­geon Point Beach on April 8 has been de­nied bail.

Key pro­vi­sions of the Civ­il As­set Re­cov­ery and Man­age­ment and Un­ex­plained Wealth Act, 2019 came in­to force on Ju­ly 28, bring­ing in­to op­er­a­tion the le­gal frame­work for civ­il as­set re­cov­ery, prop­er­ty re­stric­tion or­ders and un­ex­plained wealth pro­ceed­ings af­ter Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Car­la Kan­ga­loo is­sued a procla­ma­tion ac­ti­vat­ing sev­er­al sec­tions of the leg­is­la­tion.

Gov­ern­ment has launched a ma­jor re­cruit­ment dri­ve aimed at ad­dress­ing long­stand­ing staffing short­ages with­in the Trinidad and To­ba­go Prison Ser­vice, with 246 prison of­fi­cer re­cruits of­fi­cial­ly be­gin­ning train­ing on Tues­day.

Plan­ning Min­is­ter Dr Kennedy Swarats­ingh met with Is­rael’s Am­bas­sador to Trinidad and To­ba­go, Mat­tanya Co­hen, and MASHAV Di­rec­tor Gen­er­al Am­bas­sador Ey­nat Shlein on Wednes­day to dis­cuss ex­pand­ing bi­lat­er­al co­op­er­a­tion on mod­ern agri­cul­ture, ed­u­ca­tion, cy­ber­se­cu­ri­ty, smart cities, cli­mate re­silience and in­sti­tu­tion­al ca­pac­i­ty build­ing.

A de­ci­sion by the Salaries Re­view Com­mis­sion (SRC) to rec­om­mend a re­duc­tion in the salaries of the next Di­rec­tor and Deputy Di­rec­tor of the Po­lice Com­plaints Au­thor­i­ty (PCA) has been up­held.

Ban­dits stole more than $6,000 worth of food items from a de­liv­ery truck parked out­side One Wood­brook Place, Wood­brook, on Tues­day af­ter­noon.

CON­CA­CAF has ex­pressed con­cern over FI­FA's pro­posed FI­FA For­ward En­ter­prise, say­ing it learned about the ini­tia­tive through me­dia re­ports rather than through of­fi­cial gov­er­nance chan­nels.

Flow Trinidad has re­turned for a fifth con­sec­u­tive year as the Plat­inum Spon­sor of The Shel­ter for Bat­tered Women and Chil­dren's An­nu­al Char­i­ty Golf Tour­na­ment, con­tin­u­ing its sup­port for pro­grammes that as­sist women and chil­dren af­fect­ed by do­mes­tic vi­o­lence.

For­mer West In­dies cap­tain Bri­an Lara has called on crick­et au­thor­i­ties to es­tab­lish a Sir Garfield Sobers Ini­tia­tive to in­spire a re­vival of re­gion­al crick­et, de­scrib­ing it as the most fit­ting trib­ute to the man wide­ly re­gard­ed as the great­est all-rounder the game has ever pro­duced.

A po­lice of­fi­cer was shot dead and his li­censed firearm stolen dur­ing a sus­pect­ed rob­bery in Kel­ly Vil­lage, Ca­roni, late on Tues­day, while one of the al­leged at­tack­ers was al­so killed af­ter be­ing shot dur­ing the con­fronta­tion.

The Min­istry of the Peo­ple, So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices has marked a mile­stone with its 40th Dis­as­ter Re­lief and Home Re­pair Grant Dis­tri­b­u­tion, pro­vid­ing fi­nan­cial as­sis­tance to 70 house­holds in the Tu­na­puna/Pi­ar­co and Ari­ma re­gions.