Ac­tivist Wen­dell Ever­s­ley says he is con­cerned that Trinidad and To­ba­go is head­ing to­wards be­com­ing a po­lice state, fol­low­ing new State of Emer­gency (SoE) reg­u­la­tions that pro­hib­it pub­lic protests with­in 500 me­tres of 15 des­ig­nat­ed lo­ca­tions, in­clud­ing the Par­lia­ment.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has hailed Trinidad and To­ba­go’s achieve­ment of a Unit­ed Na­tions Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil (UN­SC) seat as a vote of con­fi­dence in T&T’s lead­er­ship, cred­i­bil­i­ty and grow­ing in­flu­ence with­in the in­ter­na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty. How­ev­er, Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has point­ed out that T&T was al­so on the UN­SC in 1985 due to the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment gov­ern­ment’s work.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has warned po­lice that they are run­ning out of ex­cus­es in their bat­tle against crim­i­nals.

Res­i­dents of Long­denville Road, Ch­agua­nas, are try­ing to come to terms with a dead­ly shoot­ing that claimed the lives of two sib­lings, af­ter a masked gun­man stormed the house where they lived.

A 22-year-old Rio Claro labour­er ap­peared vir­tu­al­ly in the High Court in San Fer­nan­do yes­ter­day in re­la­tion to an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the al­leged un­law­ful con­fine­ment and abuse of a woman.

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.