Christo­pher Meade, 36, of Pe­nal Rock Road Pe­nal will ap­pear be­fore a Siparia Mag­is­trate to­day charged with rob­bery with vi­o­lence fol­low­ing a re­port made by a woman who was robbed ear­li­er this month.
Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, the woman told them that while walk­ing along Dook­ie Street, Pe­nal a man am­bushed her, push­ing her in the chest and de­mand­ing that she hand over her purse which con­tained a quan­ti­ty of cash. The woman, fear­ful for her life, co­op­er­at­ed with the man, who lat­er es­caped with her purse.

A Port of Spain man has ap­peared in court charged with as­sault oc­ca­sion­ing ac­tu­al bod­i­ly harm against a woman, which oc­curred on Sat­ur­day 23rd Jan­u­ary 2021.

Act­ing Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al of the Sanatan Dhar­ma Ma­ha Sab­ha, Vi­jay Ma­haraj, be­lieves the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion, at its Press Con­fer­ence to­day, will post­pone the phys­i­cal re­open­ing of schools.

A 20-year-old Va­len­cia man has been sen­tenced to three months in prison af­ter plead­ing guilty to lar­ce­ny and re­sist­ing ar­rest.
Stephon Michael Hack­ett ap­peared vir­tu­al­ly be­fore an Ari­ma Mag­is­trate on Jan­u­ary 25th to an­swer to the charges.
Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, a fe­male vic­tim told the po­lice that she was at a va­ri­ety store lo­cat­ed along Pro Queen Street, Ari­ma, where a man ac­cost­ed her and grabbed her Sam­sung from her back pants pock­et and ran off.
A par­ty of of­fi­cers at­tached to the AMP, who were on foot pa­trol near­by, were alert­ed to the in­ci­dent and im­me­di­ate­ly gave chase. He was ap­pre­hend­ed a short dis­tance away. The AMP of­fi­cers searched the man and found the phone on him. While the of­fi­cers were at­tempt­ing to ar­rest the man, how­ev­er, he re­sist­ed, pulling his arm away from the of­fi­cers. He was lat­er sub­dued and tak­en to the Ari­ma Po­lice Sta­tion where he was charged with the of­fences of lar­ce­ny from the per­son to wit Sam­sung cell phone and re­sist­ing ar­rest.

A 57-year-old tech­ni­cian has been or­dered to stay away from a 16-year-old girl whom he al­leged­ly sex­u­al­ly as­sault­ed.
The man, who re­sides in Co­conut Dri­ve, Mor­vant, was giv­en the or­der by Mag­is­trate In­dar Ja­groo as part of his bail con­di­tions which was set at $250,000.

The Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NCC) has con­firmed that its dig­i­tal on­line plat­form—Trinidad and To­ba­go Car­ni­val World—will go live on Fri­day 12th Feb­ru­ary 2021.

A 36-year-old man was ar­rest­ed fol­low­ing a re­port of wound­ing, which oc­curred in the Diego Mar­tin dis­trict on Sun­day 24th Jan­u­ary 2021.

A Miss­ing Per­sons Alert has been ac­ti­vat­ed for a 19-year-old Cou­va man, who was last seen around noon on Sat­ur­day 23rd Jan­u­ary 2021.

Jamile Joseph, 30, of Tem­ple Street, suc­cumbed to his in­juries around 5 am on Mon­day 25 Jan­u­ary 2021, at the In­ten­sive Care Unit of the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal.

The lat­est fer­ry in the na­tion­al fleet, the Buc­coo Reef, re­port­ed­ly has en­coun­tered a few chal­lenges on her jour­ney home to Trinidad and To­ba­go, ac­cord­ing to a state­ment is­sued to­day by NID­CO, the Na­tion­al In­fra­struc­ture De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed.

It was in­deed heart­en­ing to hear that the po­lice have is­sued more than $4 mil­lion worth of tick­ets to per­sons who failed to wear face masks in pub­lic, de­spite the man­date con­tained in the Reg­u­la­tions is­sued by the Min­istry of Health.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots (PDP), and in­de­pen­dent can­di­date Dr Denise Tsoiafatt-An­gus said they were all hap­py with the smooth vot­ing process in the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) elec­tions and were glad COVID-19 pro­to­cols were fol­lowed.