A Pe­nal busi­ness­man has plead­ed guilty to two charges of ob­tain­ing goods through the use of dis­hon­oured cheques fol­low­ing an in­ves­ti­ga­tion by po­lice in­to al­le­ga­tions of fi­nan­cial fraud.

PNM To­ba­go Coun­cil leader Sham­fa Cud­joe-Lewis has ac­cused Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar of cre­at­ing dis­trac­tions to mask weak lead­er­ship.

The Ebo­la out­break in Con­go and Ugan­da has claimed more than 200 lives in its first month and is the worst known out­break at this stage, with up to 35,000 sus­pect­ed po­ten­tial con­tacts, Africa’s Cen­tres for Dis­ease Con­trol and Pre­ven­tion said on Thurs­day.

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump signed an agree­ment with Iran on Wednes­day that calls for Tehran to di­lute its stock­pile of high­ly en­riched ura­ni­um and waives U.S.-backed sanc­tions on the coun­try, im­me­di­ate­ly al­low­ing Iran to sell its oil freely in a ma­jor con­ces­sion from Wash­ing­ton, ac­cord­ing to de­tails re­leased by both coun­tries.

Sec­re­tary of Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment and So­cial Pro­tec­tion Ian Pol­lard has been hos­pi­talised. In a me­dia re­lease to­day, the Of­fice of the Chief Sec­re­tary (OCS) said Pol­lard has been ward­ed at the St Clair Med­ical Cen­tre for the past week.

Ka­ia Sealy has been grant­ed $700,000 bail and per­mit­ted to trav­el back and forth to the Unit­ed States to con­tin­ue med­ical treat­ment while her crim­i­nal case re­lat­ed to a fa­tal po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing in Jan­u­ary is be­fore the court.

De­spite ex­press­ing dis­ap­point­ment over her treat­ment by po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tors, at­tor­neys rep­re­sent­ing Ka­ia Sealy say she has noth­ing to hide and will con­tin­ue to co­op­er­ate with au­thor­i­ties in the in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the Jan­u­ary po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing that re­sult­ed in her boyfriend’s death.

Rel­a­tives of po­lice of­fi­cer Rafael Joseph have round­ly re­ject­ed claims that he re­port­ed­ly killed him­self while in the cus­tody of prison of­fi­cials.

To­day marks one year since Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP) Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro be­gan his role as head of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS).

Se­nior of­fi­cers of the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion are deny­ing re­ports that 187 kilo­grammes of cannabis and 187 traf­fick­ing pack­ets of cannabis, with an es­ti­mat­ed street val­ue of $1.3 mil­lion, were stolen from a po­lice sta­tion.

A do­mes­tic dis­pute in Tabaquite turned vi­o­lent on Mon­day evening when a man was al­leged­ly at­tacked and wound­ed by his broth­er with a cut­lass.

Or­di­nary-sized crops ap­pear to be off the menu for Princes Town farmer Sha­heed Ali, who yes­ter­day har­vest­ed a 100-pound wa­ter­mel­on, less than a month af­ter grow­ing a 600-pound pump­kin in his gar­den.