In­de­pen­dent sen­a­tors are stand­ing firm on their de­ci­sion to re­ject the Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Bill, in­sist­ing their sup­port would on­ly be giv­en if cru­cial amend­ments are un­der­tak­en.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der says since the School Ori­ent­ed Polic­ing Ini­tia­tive be­gan in Sep­tem­ber 2025, 19 stu­dents were ar­rest­ed in the first term from Sep­tem­ber to De­cem­ber 2025. The 19 were all charged in con­nec­tion with school vi­o­lence.

Five men have been placed un­der pre­ven­tive de­ten­tion or­ders over a four-day pe­ri­od, as the State con­tin­ues to in­voke pro­vi­sions of the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions, 2026, to dis­rupt gang ac­tiv­i­ty and vi­o­lent crime.

Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath says in­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing in­to the cause of a fire at Cara­pichaima West Sec­ondary School, even as al­le­ga­tions have sur­faced that Form Five stu­dents may have been in­volved.

In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tor An­tho­ny Vieira yes­ter­day is­sued a state­ment say­ing he was deeply con­cern and dis­ap­point­ed af­ter For­eign Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers de­clined to an­swer sev­er­al ques­tions re­gard­ing Gov­ern­ment’s sup­port for the US’s nar­co-ter­ror­ism cam­paign in re­la­tion to Venezuela.

One day af­ter it was gazetted, Min­is­ter of Land and Le­gal Af­fairs and Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture and Fish­eries, Sad­dam Ho­sein, an­nounced that his min­istry has now as­sumed re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for Evolv­ing Tec­Knolo­gies & En­ter­prise De­vel­op­ment Co Ltd (eTecK).

A neigh­bour and friend of slain ma­chine op­er­a­tor Ron­dell Adol­phus, alias ‘Patch’, says he is fear­ful for his own safe­ty, as he is con­cerned that em­ploy­ees of mur­dered busi­ness­man Dan­ny Guer­ra are be­ing tar­get­ed by crim­i­nals.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the theft of valu­ables from the home of slain San­gre Grande busi­ness­man Dan­ny Guer­ra, just days af­ter his mur­der on March 13.

De­spite re­ports that a 26-year-old New Grant man was beat­en be­fore be­ing found dead near his home, in­ves­ti­ga­tors say they are await­ing the re­sults of an au­top­sy be­fore de­ter­min­ing the cause of death.

Three men were ar­rest­ed dur­ing a co­or­di­nat­ed an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in Mara­bel­la yes­ter­day, af­ter of­fi­cers re­cov­ered a firearm, am­mu­ni­tion and co­caine in sep­a­rate op­er­a­tions.

Se­nior pro­fes­sor at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (UTT), Wasi Khan, was award­ed $200,000 in dam­ages af­ter a High Court judge ruled that he was de­famed by a col­league.

Af­ter a 52-year-old Cunu­pia woman, who plead­ed guilty to mon­ey laun­der­ing, was sen­tenced to four years, six months, and 24 days in prison on Feb­ru­ary 19, a High Court judge has or­dered that the mon­ey be con­fis­cat­ed un­der the Pro­ceeds of Crime Act (POCA).