A man was ar­rest­ed in Fyz­abad af­ter po­lice found 13.7 grammes of co­caine in his pos­ses­sion dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise on In­de­pen­dence Day.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice is seek­ing the pub­lic’s ur­gent as­sis­tance in lo­cat­ing 23-year-old Ja’el Zamore of Gas­par­il­lo, who has been re­port­ed miss­ing.

Two men have been ar­rest­ed and charged in re­la­tion to a dou­ble mur­der in Ari­ma ear­li­er this month, the mo­tive for which, po­lice said, was an ar­gu­ment that be­gan be­tween one of the sus­pects and the vic­tims.

The To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly has launched To­ba­go ID, a dig­i­tal plat­form al­low­ing res­i­dents to ac­cess and track ser­vices of­fered by the THA’s di­vi­sions, de­part­ments and com­pa­nies on­line.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has de­clared that she is stand­ing firm­ly be­hind Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP) Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro, prais­ing him and the na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty agen­cies for keep­ing their promise to en­sure yes­ter­day’s In­de­pen­dence Day cel­e­bra­tions were “awe­some.”

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has as­sured Trinida­di­ans that they have noth­ing to fear over To­ba­go’s quest for greater au­ton­o­my.

To­bag­o­ni­ans lined the Claude Noel High­way near Scar­bor­ough yes­ter­day as pa­tri­o­tism and pride were on full dis­play in the an­nu­al In­de­pen­dence Day pa­rade.

The weath­er put its best foot for­ward for Trinidad and To­ba­go’s 64th an­niver­sary of in­de­pen­dence, and the se­cu­ri­ty forces did the same, as mem­bers of the pub­lic cel­e­brat­ed the re­turn of the “Road March”—the pa­rade of uni­formed of­fi­cers from the launch of the cel­e­bra­tions at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah through Wood­brook to the St James con­clu­sion point.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s 64th an­niver­sary of In­de­pen­dence has drawn con­grat­u­la­tions from King Charles III, Unit­ed States Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Ru­bio and Caribbean lead­ers, who high­light­ed long­stand­ing friend­ships, re­gion­al sol­i­dar­i­ty and op­por­tu­ni­ties for deep­er co­op­er­a­tion.

The Tu­na­puna/Pi­ar­co Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion did not host its an­nu­al In­de­pen­dence Day cel­e­bra­tion this year, opt­ing in­stead to redi­rect its ef­forts to­wards food as­sis­tance and back-to-school sup­port.

A re­tired nurse has threat­ened to pur­sue con­tempt of court pro­ceed­ings against Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro over his re­port­ed fail­ure to abide by a court or­der di­rect­ing him to dis­close de­tails of an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to her daugh­ter’s “mys­te­ri­ous” death that was ruled a sui­cide.

A man from To­ba­go has failed in his le­gal chal­lenge over not be­ing al­lowed to com­plete train­ing to be­come a Spe­cial Re­serve Po­lice (SRP) of­fi­cer af­ter med­ical and psy­chi­atric ex­am­i­na­tions.