In­dia lurched deep­er in­to a cri­sis in crick­et’s Twen­ty20 for­mat af­ter slump­ing to a sec­ond straight se­ries loss, with Eng­land tak­ing an in­sur­mount­able 3-0 lead on the back of de­struc­tive half-cen­turies by Phil Salt and Har­ry Brook.

A hu­man­i­tar­i­an ship­ment car­ry­ing 88 con­tain­ers of emer­gency re­lief sup­plies has left George­town for earth­quake-hit Venezuela, with of­fi­cials de­scrib­ing the op­er­a­tion as a re­gion­al ef­fort sup­port­ed by sev­en Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) mem­ber states.

The Trin­ba­go Uni­fied Ca­lyp­so­ni­ans’ Or­gan­i­sa­tion (TU­CO) elec­tion, sched­uled for this Sun­day (Ju­ly 12), will go ahead as planned.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice has dis­con­tin­ued the Yel­low Lev­el High Wind Alert, re­turn­ing the coun­try to Green Lev­el.

The Min­istry of Land and Le­gal Af­fairs has signed a Mem­o­ran­dum of Un­der­stand­ing (MOU) with the World In­tel­lec­tu­al Prop­er­ty Or­gan­i­sa­tion (WIPO) aimed at strength­en­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go’s ca­pac­i­ty for patent draft­ing and sup­port­ing lo­cal in­no­va­tors.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce (TT Cham­ber) and the George­town Cham­ber of Com­merce and In­dus­try (GC­CI) have signed a Mem­o­ran­dum of Un­der­stand­ing (MoU) aimed at strength­en­ing bi­lat­er­al trade, in­vest­ment and pri­vate sec­tor col­lab­o­ra­tion be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go and Guyana.

A 50-year-old Port of Spain man has been charged with mur­der and firearm-re­lat­ed of­fences in con­nec­tion with the fa­tal shoot­ing of Mar­lon Ham­lyn last month along Char­lotte Street.

A mod­i­fied PlaySta­tion gam­ing con­sole was al­leged­ly be­ing used to con­ceal a firearm and am­mu­ni­tion, lead­ing to the ar­rest of two peo­ple dur­ing in­tel­li­gence-led an­ti-crime op­er­a­tions car­ried out by po­lice in Cen­tral and West­ern Trinidad on Wednes­day.

Po­lice are seek­ing the pub­lic's ur­gent as­sis­tance in lo­cat­ing an 18-year-old To­ba­go woman who has been re­port­ed miss­ing.

A quan­ti­ty of cannabis and am­mu­ni­tion was seized and one man was ar­rest­ed dur­ing an in­tel­li­gence-led an­ti-crime ex­er­cise con­duct­ed by of­fi­cers of the Port-of-Spain Di­vi­sion overnight.

Mo­torists can ex­pect tem­po­rary traf­fic re­stric­tions along the west­bound Churchill Roo­sevelt High­way and Beetham High­way be­tween the Aranguez Over­pass and Pi­o­neer Dri­ve from Ju­ly 13 to Ju­ly 24 as the Min­istry of Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion car­ries out pave­ment mark­ing works.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the theft of parts from a life­guard tow­er at the beach near Beau­mont Road in Ma­yaro.