So­ca artiste Kim­ba Sorzano has been freed of at­tempt­ed rape and gre­vi­ous sex­u­al as­sault charges af­ter the woman who ac­cused him failed to tes­ti­fy at his tri­al.

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.

Po­lice in To­ba­go are in­ves­ti­gat­ing an in­ci­dent in­volv­ing an of­fi­cer who was record­ed as­sault­ing a woman.

The Unit­ed Na­tions is wel­com­ing re­ports that the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic will re­open its air­space to Haiti, restor­ing flights be­tween San­to Domin­go and Cap-Haï­tien that could be­gin as ear­ly as next month.

The Unit­ed States and Iran have sig­naled they will hold a new round of cease­fire talks in Pak­istan, two re­gion­al of­fi­cials said Tues­day, as lead­ers on both sides warned they were pre­pared for more fight­ing if a frag­ile two-week truce ex­pires with­out a deal.

A day of fam­i­ly fun end­ed in tragedy when four peo­ple, in­clud­ing a nine-year-old girl, were am­bushed and killed while on their way home on Sun­day night.

An au­top­sy per­formed on the body of act­ing Cpl Anusha Ever­s­ley, who was found dead in the San Fer­nan­do Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Sta­tion on Sun­day, has found that she was stran­gled and al­so suf­fered blunt and sharp force trau­mat­ic in­juries (stab and chop wounds).

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has crit­i­cised Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, ac­cus­ing her of “ab­di­ca­tion of re­spon­si­bil­i­ty” in the wake of a vi­o­lent week­end that has shak­en Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Pa­tri­ot­ic Front leader Mick­ela Pan­day has ac­cused Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar of en­gag­ing in “Tik­Tok gov­er­nance,” urg­ing her to “put down the phones” and con­front what she(Pan­day) de­scribed as a wors­en­ing crime cri­sis.

San Fer­nan­do busi­ness­peo­ple say they are wor­ried af­ter the brazen breach of the San Fer­nan­do Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Sta­tion and the theft of a cache of firearms, with one jew­ellery store own­er now plan­ning to shut down op­er­a­tions by next year due to es­ca­lat­ing crime.

Re­gion­al se­cu­ri­ty ex­pert Dr Garvin Heer­ah has de­scribed the re­port­ed breach at the San Fer­nan­do Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Sta­tion, which re­sult­ed in the death of a po­lice of­fi­cer and the theft of firearms and am­mu­ni­tion from the sta­tion’s vault, as a “deeply dis­turb­ing and high­ly sen­si­tive na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty in­ci­dent.”

Three more peo­ple, in­clud­ing a woman, have been ar­rest­ed in re­la­tion to the at­tempt­ed il­le­gal dis­pos­al of 56 hu­man re­mains.