Gabrielle strength­ened in­to a ma­jor hur­ri­cane in the At­lantic Ocean on Mon­day but was fore­cast to re­main away from land.

A 33-year-old man is in crit­i­cal con­di­tion af­ter he was shot mul­ti­ple times by a po­lice­man dur­ing an al­ter­ca­tion in San­ta Cruz on Sun­day af­ter­noon.

Po­lice said of­fi­cers of the North-Cen­tral Gang In­tel­li­gence Unit (NCGIU) re­ceived in­for­ma­tion that ban­dits in a red Hon­da Vezel were plan­ning to rob a busi­ness place af­ter the CPL Crick­et Fi­nals at around 6.37 pm.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the death of a 59-year-old Laven­tille man, whose body was found at his home on Sun­day af­ter­noon.

Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment has called for an im­me­di­ate and in­de­pen­dent in­ves­ti­ga­tion af­ter re­ports sur­faced that Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der met with in­car­cer­at­ed gang lead­ers be­fore and af­ter the last gen­er­al elec­tions.

Rus­sia’s Pres­i­dent Vladimir Putin said Mon­day that Moscow will ad­here to nu­clear arms lim­its for one more year af­ter a nu­clear pact with the Unit­ed States ex­pires in Feb­ru­ary.

Po­lice shot two men dur­ing a con­fronta­tion in Jairs­ingh Vil­lage, Coalmine, San­gre Grande, on Sun­day night.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dave Tan­coo on Fri­day pi­lot­ed two bills in Par­lia­ment aimed at bol­ster­ing T&T’s fight against fi­nan­cial crime and cor­rup­tion: the Mis­cel­la­neous Pro­vi­sions (FATF Com­pli­ance) Bill, 2025, and the Counter-Pro­lif­er­a­tion Fi­nanc­ing Bill, 2025.

At­tor­ney Nafeesa Mo­hammed has ac­cused PNM Sen­a­tor Faris Al-Rawi of con­tin­u­ing to “in­stil fear” in the pub­lic over the repa­tri­a­tion of T&T women and chil­dren from Mid­dle East refugee camps. She has al­so called on Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les to work with Gov­ern­ment to get the repa­tri­a­tion done.

A $14.4 mil­lion state-of-the-art com­mu­ni­ty cen­tre in Waller­field is fu­elling ten­sions be­tween Ja­cob Hill res­i­dents and the area’s farm­ers.

What be­gan as a qui­et Sat­ur­day night in Savonet­ta end­ed in tragedy when 64-year-old Kr­ish­na Changru was burnt to death af­ter his wood­en home was gut­ted by fire.

The Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Work­ers Union (CWU) has ex­pressed con­cern that State-owned TSTT may be desta­bilised amid ru­mours of se­nior-lev­el changes with­in the or­gan­i­sa­tion.