The qui­et still­ness of St Bene­dict’s RC Church in La Ro­maine was shat­tered ear­ly Mon­day when a gang of bur­glars broke in­to the pres­bytery, ty­ing up and rob­bing Priest Fr Derek An­ton. By yes­ter­day, work­men were al­ready chang­ing the locks, but the shak­en mood across the com­pound lin­gered heav­i­ly in the air.

With just over one month to go be­fore the year ends, po­lice-in­volved killings have to­talled 54 in­ci­dents up to No­vem­ber 23.

The tri­al of a law­suit from a long-stand­ing firearms deal­er, over a po­lice ex­er­cise in 2022 which re­sult­ed in his busi­ness be­ing closed for sev­er­al weeks, is set to be com­plet­ed this week.

The fu­ner­al for mur­dered Siparia Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion coun­cil­lor Romona Vic­tor will take place to­mor­row, as her shat­tered fam­i­ly and com­mu­ni­ty con­tin­ue to strug­gle with the bru­tal cir­cum­stances of her death.

Af­ter weeks of be­ing de­nied an au­di­ence with prison su­per­vi­sor Garth Gua­da re­gard­ing the fil­ing of a ju­di­cial re­view chal­leng­ing the State’s re­fusal to dis­con­tin­ue his Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO), his at­tor­ney has fi­nal­ly been al­lowed to meet with him and re­ceive in­struc­tions on how to pro­ceed.

Com­mu­ni­ties along Tamana Hill Road and Los Ar­madil­los Road in Guaico say they have been left iso­lat­ed, frus­trat­ed, and des­per­ate af­ter the on­ly ac­cess routes in­to the area de­te­ri­o­rat­ed to the point of be­ing im­pass­able. Res­i­dents say it is an es­ca­lat­ing cri­sis they blame on years of ne­glect, poor main­te­nance, and a lack of rep­re­sen­ta­tion.

An Ari­ma woman is ex­pect­ed to be charged with forgery and ut­ter­ing a forged doc­u­ment to the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) when she ap­plied to be­come a po­lice of­fi­cer sev­en years ago.

A teenag­er from Guarat­ta Hill in Mara­cas, St Joseph, who was shot mul­ti­ple times on Mon­day, has died at hos­pi­tal.

A San Fer­nan­do man on his way to pay over $100,000 worth of out­stand­ing tax­es on gam­ing ma­chines on Mon­day was robbed of the cash, steps away from the In­land Rev­enue Build­ing in Port-of-Spain.

An Aranguez woman whose gold chains were snatched whilst in her car in Port-of-Spain on Sun­day, fol­low­ing which she was dragged and thrown on the road be­fore the ban­dit drove off with the ve­hi­cle, had it re­turned to her hours lat­er at her home.

Top US mil­i­tary of­fi­cials are meet­ing lead­ers of Caribbean na­tions this week as the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion has es­ca­lat­ed its fire­pow­er in the re­gion as part of what it calls a cam­paign against drug traf­fick­ing.

Leader of the Op­po­si­tion Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is­sued a state­ment call­ing on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to apol­o­gise for re­marks made in re­cent pub­lic ex­changes and to ad­dress what she de­scribed as on­go­ing con­cerns about con­duct in the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter.