A po­lice con­sta­ble at­tached to the Barataria Po­lice Sta­tion has been ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the theft of $1 mil­lion worth of mar­i­jua­na from the sta­tion’s “strong room.”

A Laven­tille man died dur­ing a fa­tal road ac­ci­dent in To­ba­go on Thurs­day night, af­ter the car he was dri­ving crashed and flipped, caus­ing him to be eject­ed. The ve­hi­cle then land­ed on him.

Two rel­a­tives of a fa­ther and son who were killed af­ter a pur­port­ed shoot-out with po­lice at a Cunu­pia Church on Thurs­day re­main in cus­tody as po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue.

The in­ci­dent in which a prison of­fi­cer was stabbed dur­ing an at­tempt­ed rob­bery in St Au­gus­tine on Thurs­day, has been de­scribed as a crime of op­por­tu­ni­ty and not a tar­get­ed am­bush as pre­vi­ous­ly be­lieved.

Days af­ter his tele­vi­sion was dam­aged by po­lice of­fi­cers search­ing his Sea Lots home, na­tion­al award re­cip­i­ent Ter­rence David was gift­ed a brand new smart tele­vi­sion by an anony­mous good Samar­i­tan.

Nu­mer­ous is­sues plagu­ing the Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS), in­clud­ing a staff short­age at the in­sti­tu­tion, have re­sult­ed in a back-and-forth ‘blame game’ be­tween the cur­rent and for­mer pub­lic util­i­ties min­is­ters.

As the Na­tion­al Pe­tro­le­um (NP) Mar­ket­ing Com­pa­ny con­tin­ues its in­quiry in­to the death of Ria George, rel­a­tives, friends, and co-work­ers yes­ter­day re­mem­bered her out­pour­ing of love and kind­ness.

Trinidad and To­ba­go will soon host a per­ma­nent Jaipur Foot Ar­ti­fi­cial Limb Fit­ment Cen­tre, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar an­nounced yes­ter­day, call­ing it “a gift of dig­ni­ty and in­de­pen­dence” for hun­dreds of cit­i­zens liv­ing with am­pu­ta­tions.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is again deny­ing that there is any rift be­tween this coun­try and Venezuela and is even go­ing so far as to blame the me­dia for man­u­fac­tur­ing the il­lu­sion of a rift.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says she re­mains in sup­port of US strikes on al­leged Venezue­lan drug traf­fick­ers, even as she seeks to fos­ter a bet­ter re­la­tion­ship with that coun­try’s leader, Pres­i­dent Nico­las Maduro. On Tues­day, Unit­ed States Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Ru­bio as­sured the Prime Min­is­ter that the Don­ald Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion sup­ports Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Drag­on gas project. Af­ter bi­lat­er­al dis­cus­sions on en­er­gy and na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty, high on the agen­da in Wash­ing­ton, DC, Sec­re­tary Ru­bio ac­knowl­edged the sig­nif­i­cance of the Drag­on gas plan to T&T’s eco­nom­ic pros­per­i­ty and re­gion­al sta­bil­i­ty.

Two teenage boys and a 42-year-old man have been ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the theft and at­tempt to sell lap­tops be­long­ing to a sec­ondary school.

Twen­ty-eight Venezue­lan girls and women were de­tained dur­ing a po­lice op­er­a­tion at a pop­u­lar club in San­gre Grande yes­ter­day af­ter­noon.