An ear­ly morn­ing con­fronta­tion in Mal­abar end­ed in tragedy yes­ter­day when a 26-year-old car sales­man was stabbed mul­ti­ple times and died short­ly af­ter reach­ing the Ari­ma Hos­pi­tal.

A 33-year-old Trinida­di­an na­tion­al and law­ful per­ma­nent res­i­dent of the Unit­ed States has plead­ed guilty to sex traf­fick­ing and ad­mit­ted that he kid­napped six ad­di­tion­al women.

A To­ba­go woman was al­leged­ly shot by her boyfriend dur­ing an ar­gu­ment on Fri­day af­ter­noon in Bon Ac­cord.

Po­lice ar­rest­ed one man and seized a firearm, a mag­a­zine and sev­er­al rounds of am­mu­ni­tion dur­ing in­tel­li­gence-led ex­er­cis­es in the Cen­tral, South­ern and East­ern Di­vi­sions over the past 24 hours.

Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions provider Flow is ad­vis­ing cus­tomers in Bel­mont and sur­round­ing ar­eas of a ser­vice in­ter­rup­tion fol­low­ing a fire on Pic­cadil­ly Street last night.

A 36-year-old Fyz­abad man was ar­rest­ed and two firearms, am­mu­ni­tion and co­caine seized dur­ing an in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tion in the Pe­nal and Fyz­abad dis­tricts.

Hilton Trinidad work­ers have been giv­en a six-month re­prieve af­ter the Gov­ern­ment se­cured a new man­age­ment agree­ment that will keep the in­ter­na­tion­al ho­tel brand at the State-owned prop­er­ty while a longer-term so­lu­tion is de­vel­oped.

A for­mer Trinidad and To­ba­go diplo­mat be­lieves this coun­try was “diplo­mat­i­cal­ly in­sult­ed” dur­ing For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers’ vis­it to Cara­cas, ar­gu­ing that Venezuela’s ac­tions, rather than the cor­dial lan­guage con­tained in a joint state­ment, show re­la­tions re­main far from re­paired.

One year af­ter Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) tem­porar­i­ly sus­pend­ed flights be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go and Venezuela, the air­line is prepar­ing to re­sume ser­vice to the South Amer­i­can na­tion.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce has wel­comed the re­open­ing of di­rect di­a­logue be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go and Venezuela, par­tic­u­lar­ly re­newed dis­cus­sions on en­er­gy co­op­er­a­tion, but says the fo­cus must now shift from diplo­ma­cy to im­ple­men­ta­tion.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is ques­tion­ing what Trinidad and To­ba­go ac­tu­al­ly achieved from For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers’ trip to Venezuela and why Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has still not met di­rect­ly with Act­ing Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez.

De­spite con­cerns from stake­hold­ers over the readi­ness of schools for Mon­day’s re­open­ing, Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath yes­ter­day ex­pressed con­fi­dence that all schools would re­open.