Mus­lim fam­i­lies’ up­dat­ed plan to repa­tri­ate their rel­a­tives from Mid­dle East refugee camps out­lines mea­sures to as­sess whether re­turnees pose se­cu­ri­ty risks, ad­dress men­tal health con­cerns, and re­quires a con­tract oblig­at­ing com­pli­ance with Trinidad and To­ba­go’s se­cu­ri­ty pro­to­cols, with penal­ties for vi­o­la­tions in­clud­ing im­pris­on­ment.

For­mer Com­mu­ni­ty-based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme Com­pa­ny (CEPEP) chair­man Joel Ed­wards and 10 for­mer board mem­bers are fac­ing a law­suit over their de­ci­sion to ap­prove a three-year ex­ten­sion for con­trac­tors just days be­fore last year’s gen­er­al elec­tion.

Bats were raised high, pink bal­loons drift­ed sky­ward, and tears flowed freely as fam­i­ly, friends and team­mates bid a fi­nal farewell to slain crick­eter Rashme Deoa­jit, whose life was cut short in a bru­tal at­tack last week.

A se­ries of sus­pect­ed ar­son at­tacks across south Trinidad over the week­end has left a fam­i­ly dis­placed, a church shak­en, and mul­ti­ple prop­er­ties de­stroyed, as po­lice in­ves­ti­gate three sep­a­rate in­ci­dents in Clax­ton Bay, Siparia and San Fer­nan­do.

Con­cerns over a pos­si­ble ex­it by in­ter­na­tion­al ho­tel chain Hilton have sparked po­lit­i­cal de­bate, even as in­dus­try stake­hold­ers cau­tion against alarm and call for mea­sured en­gage­ment.

While the night had its mo­ments of frus­tra­tion, renowned gospel singer Kirk Franklin de­liv­ered an elec­tri­fy­ing and high-en­er­gy per­for­mance for fans in Trinidad.

Gun­men opened fire on the home of the son of mur­dered busi­ness­man Dan­ny Guer­ra at Guy’s Trace, North Oropouche, on Sat­ur­day evening, leav­ing res­i­dents shocked and con­cerned.

One man was ar­rest­ed and quan­ti­ties of drugs and cash seized dur­ing a State of Emer­gency an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion in the San Juan dis­trict yes­ter­day morn­ing.

One man was ar­rest­ed and a quan­ti­ty of cannabis seized dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in the South West­ern Di­vi­sion yes­ter­day.

A sus­pect­ed ar­son at­tack on the Sa­cred Choice of Heav­en Mt Lebanon Spir­i­tu­al Bap­tist Church in Clax­ton Bay has left mem­bers of the con­gre­ga­tion shak­en but res­olute af­ter quick ac­tion by fire­fight­ers pre­vent­ed ma­jor dam­age on Fri­day night.

Her­itage sites in Trinidad and To­ba­go must be pre­served to safe­guard the coun­try’s his­to­ry, ac­cord­ing to vis­it­ing ar­chae­ol­o­gist Pro­fes­sor Mark Hauser, who is lead­ing doc­u­men­ta­tion work at the his­toric Cedar Grove Es­tate in South Trinidad.

Re­ports in­di­cate that around 2:40 am, Layne was lim­ing at a bar in Boodooville when he had an al­ter­ca­tion with an­oth­er man and struck him on the head with a bot­tle. He was sub­se­quent­ly put out of the bar but re­mained out­side.