De­spite wit­ness­ing her par­ents’ bru­tal mur­ders, a 19-year-old woman stood strong dur­ing their fu­ner­al yes­ter­day, vow­ing not to be over­come by grief.

For­mer min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Fi­nance Bri­an Man­ning is urg­ing Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) pres­i­dent Fe­l­isha Thomas to re­sign if she can­not se­cure at least a 10 per cent wage in­crease for pub­lic sec­tor work­ers by Christ­mas.

Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Dr Amery Browne has lodged a po­lice re­port af­ter re­ceiv­ing on­line death threats.

The Women’s League of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) is con­demn­ing a com­ment made by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Diego Mar­tin North East, Colm Im­bert, yes­ter­day dur­ing a sit­ting of the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives.

A prison of­fi­cer and a food ven­dor at the Port-of-Spain Hos­pi­tal were among 12 peo­ple ar­rest­ed and charged for of­fences com­mit­ted with­in the state’s prison.

Pres­i­dent of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Au­to­mo­tive Deal­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTA­DA), Visham Bab­wah, says eight-year-old for­eign used cars are un­suit­able for the do­mes­tic mar­ket and could cre­ate se­ri­ous long-term prob­lems for con­sumers.

Po­lice have seized four il­le­gal firearms, 132 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion, and nar­cotics, and ar­rest­ed five peo­ple dur­ing mul­ti-di­vi­sion op­er­a­tions over the past 24 hours.

Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Dr Amery Browne says he has re­port­ed a se­ries of on­line death threats made against him and his fam­i­ly to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice.

Cliff Green, the hus­band of Olive Green-Jack, who was de­tained un­der the State of Emer­gency for her so­cial me­dia post call­ing on Venezuela to at­tack the Prime Min­is­ter at her pri­vate res­i­dence in South Trinidad, says his wife is sor­ry.

Busi­ness­man Dan­ny Guer­ra has been ac­cused of plot­ting to as­sas­si­nate a Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter, which led to his ar­rest on a Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO) on Wednes­day.

As min­is­ters re­spon­si­ble for na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty main­tain si­lence on on­go­ing op­er­a­tions with the Unit­ed States, act­ing For­eign Af­fairs Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath says that joint mil­i­tary train­ing with Wash­ing­ton will con­tin­ue.

The Unit­ed States has is­sued a se­cu­ri­ty ad­vi­so­ry for air­craft op­er­at­ing in the Mai­quetía Flight In­for­ma­tion Re­gion (SVZM FIR) due to a po­ten­tial­ly haz­ardous sit­u­a­tion and height­ened mil­i­tary ac­tiv­i­ty in and around Venezuela.