Poul­try op­er­a­tors in South Trinidad say they are re­ceiv­ing up to 50 per cent few­er birds, forc­ing some busi­ness­es to re­duce staff and, at times, close their doors as chick­en prices con­tin­ue to rise due to the short­fall.

Two po­lice of­fi­cers have been de­tained in con­nec­tion with the in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the dis­ap­pear­ance of three firearms and a quan­ti­ty of am­mu­ni­tion from the Cen­tral Po­lice Sta­tion on St Vin­cent Street, Port-of-Spain. The de­ten­tion was con­firmed late yes­ter­day by po­lice of­fi­cials.

A man want­ed in con­nec­tion with the mur­der of po­lice con­sta­ble Romel Dou­glas was shot and killed by po­lice dur­ing an ex­change of gun­fire in Matu­ra on Tues­day night.

Po­lice say there is no ev­i­dence to date sug­gest­ing mem­bers of the LGBTQ com­mu­ni­ty are be­ing tar­get­ed.

On the same day prison of­fi­cers spot­ted a man at­tempt­ing to throw con­tra­band items in­to the prison com­pound, of­fi­cers found im­pro­vised weapons in the ceil­ing of the East­ern Cor­rec­tion­al Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre (ECRC) in San­ta Rosa.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has con­firmed that the new po­lice posts be­ing set up across the coun­try will op­er­ate 24 hours a day and that peo­ple tak­en to them will not be de­tained there.

Al­though Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP) Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro con­tin­ues to re­main tight-lipped about the how joint po­lice and army units will op­er­ate from the new po­lice posts be­ing erect­ed in com­mu­ni­ties across the coun­try, a se­nior of­fi­cer says an up­date is ex­pect­ed by mid-Sep­tem­ber re­gard­ing its roll­out.

A new Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der has been is­sued against Elvis Ryan Lopez, al­so known as “Pig­gy” and “Pig,” who au­thor­i­ties have linked to an in­for­mal gang op­er­at­ing in Moru­ga, St Mary’s and sur­round­ing ar­eas.

As power­boat en­thu­si­asts across the coun­try seek var­i­ous van­tage points to en­joy the Great Race spec­ta­cle on Sat­ur­day, one fan will be do­ing so from the com­fort of his home—in the sea—at Store Bay.

For­mer En­er­gy min­is­ter Stu­art Young is call­ing on Gov­ern­ment to pro­vide more de­tails about the pro­posed re­open­ing of the Point Lisas steel plant, while urg­ing the new own­ers to en­gage the Steel Work­ers’ Union of Trinidad and To­ba­go (SWUTT).

Econ­o­mist Dr Mar­lene Attzs says the pro­posed US$750 mil­lion re­vival of the Point Lisas steel plant could pro­vide a sig­nif­i­cant boost to Trinidad and To­ba­go’s econ­o­my, but be­lieves the true mea­sure of the in­vest­ment will be the last­ing ben­e­fits it cre­ates for the coun­try.

Na­tion­al Union of Gov­ern­ment and Fed­er­at­ed Work­ers (NUGFW) pres­i­dent gen­er­al Christo­pher Streete says “some­body dropped the ball” in im­ple­ment­ing new salaries for ap­prox­i­mate­ly 20,000 work­ers who were grant­ed a 10 per cent wage in­crease ear­li­er this year.