Two men were killed and three oth­ers in­jured fol­low­ing a shoot­ing in Mal­ick yes­ter­day af­ter­noon.

A High Court Judge has re­solved a long-stand­ing dis­pute be­tween a pair of friends and busi­ness­men over a par­cel of land that was left over from a busi­ness ven­ture that did not ma­te­ri­alise. 

A 30-year-old man from Char­lieville is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore the South Dis­trict Mas­ters’ Court af­ter po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tions re­vealed that a re­port­ed kid­nap­ping was fab­ri­cat­ed, re­sult­ing in the un­nec­es­sary de­ploy­ment of sig­nif­i­cant po­lice re­sources.

Mo­ments af­ter telling rel­a­tives he be­lieved he was hav­ing a heart at­tack, 57-year-old De­onar­ine Sama­roo re­treat­ed to an up­stairs bed­room of his Pe­nal home. A short time lat­er, he was found mo­tion­less, set­ting off a po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing his death.

Po­lice ar­rest­ed 32 peo­ple and ex­e­cut­ed 52 war­rants dur­ing a co­or­di­nat­ed ex­er­cise con­duct­ed by of­fi­cers of the South­ern Di­vi­sion ear­li­er this week.

The road­side ven­dor ac­cused of sell­ing pota­toes tak­en from the Clax­ton Bay land­fill has been grant­ed $20,000 bail.

At­tor­ney-at-law Dr Mar­garet Satya Rose was to­day sworn in as an Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor, re­plac­ing Janelle John-Bates on the Op­po­si­tion bench in the Sen­ate.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro says any de­ci­sion on whether to ex­tend the State of Emer­gency (SOE) rests with the Gov­ern­ment, as he de­fend­ed the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice’s han­dling of crime, protests and pub­lic se­cu­ri­ty con­cerns.

Two men have died and three oth­ers were in­jured fol­low­ing a shoot­ing in Mal­ick on Fri­day af­ter­noon.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro has ad­dressed crit­i­cism sur­round­ing the polic­ing of protests dur­ing the SOE, re­ject­ing claims that of­fi­cers have treat­ed some demon­stra­tions dif­fer­ent­ly from oth­ers.

Po­lice ar­rest­ed 32 peo­ple and ex­e­cut­ed 52 war­rants dur­ing a co­or­di­nat­ed ex­er­cise con­duct­ed by of­fi­cers of the South­ern Di­vi­sion ear­li­er this week.

For­mer Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has wel­comed Trinidad and To­ba­go's elec­tion to the Unit­ed Na­tions Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil but warned that the Gov­ern­ment's con­duct on the in­ter­na­tion­al stage will come un­der scruti­ny dur­ing its tenure.