The son of mur­dered busi­ness­man Dan­ny Guer­ra is among six­teen peo­ple de­tained un­der pre­ven­ta­tive de­ten­tion or­ders. Garvin Aaron Guer­ra, al­so called Gavin Aaron Guer­ra, is de­scribed as be­ing linked to the Sixx Gang and is be­lieved to have been in­volved in plan­ning re­tal­ia­to­ry shoot­ings in Va­len­cia, San­gre Grande and sur­round­ing ar­eas. It is the sec­ond time he has been held un­der a PDO. Po­lice sources said he was held in To­ba­go.

De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge has said that, in prin­ci­ple, home­own­ers should have the right to own firearms, as he point­ed to what he de­scribed as a pol­i­cy shift to­wards a more US-style ap­proach to gun own­er­ship in re­sponse to ris­ing con­cerns over home in­va­sions.

In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tors Sophia Chote and An­tho­ny Vieira have de­scribed the cur­rent crime sit­u­a­tion as “deeply dis­tress­ing” and “trou­bling”, while cau­tion­ing against as­sign­ing blame to the Gov­ern­ment or rush­ing to ex­pand leg­is­la­tion.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der says sev­er­al peo­ple have been de­tained as in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue in­to the mur­ders of four peo­ple, in­clud­ing a nine-year-old child, in Mor­vant on Sun­day.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is call­ing on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to ad­dress the na­tion di­rect­ly, fol­low­ing a string of vi­o­lent crimes in­clud­ing the mur­der of a po­lice of­fi­cer at a mu­nic­i­pal sta­tion dur­ing a gun theft and the coun­try’s first quadru­ple homi­cide for the year.

The Gov­ern­ment has re­leased the names of more than two dozen in­di­vid­u­als fol­low­ing its re­cent black­list­ing of three in­ter­na­tion­al or­gan­i­sa­tions as ter­ror­ist groups.

The Gov­ern­ment says it will bring the nec­es­sary leg­is­la­tion to Par­lia­ment to pre­vent any re­cur­rence of the un­law­ful dis­pos­al of 56 un­claimed bod­ies at a Cu­mu­to ceme­tery.

As she pre­pares to de­fend her con­duct be­fore her po­lit­i­cal leader this week, em­bat­tled Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Sen­a­tor Janelle John-Bates says she will ac­cept her fate, what­ev­er it may be.

For­mer act­ing com­mis­sion­er of po­lice, Stephen Williams, said there is a flawed per­cep­tion by the two ma­jor po­lit­i­cal par­ties that a state of emer­gency (SoE) can be used to fight crime in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has ex­pressed sad­ness fol­low­ing the pass­ing of long-stand­ing Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) mem­ber Don Sylvester, de­scrib­ing him as a de­vot­ed and com­mit­ted sup­port­er of the par­ty. Sylvester died on Mon­day.

For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers has stepped up crit­i­cism of the for­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) ad­min­is­tra­tion, ac­cus­ing it of fail­ing to act on con­cerns raised by Unit­ed King­dom au­thor­i­ties over a surge in asy­lum ap­pli­ca­tions by Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­als.

To­ba­go Ho­tel and Tourism As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent Regi­nald Mac Lean is an­tic­i­pat­ing teething prob­lems fol­low­ing the re­moval of the do­mes­tic de­par­ture lounge at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port.