A To­ba­go fire of­fi­cer was killed in a road ac­ci­dent ear­ly this morn­ing along Mil­ford Road in Bon Ac­cord.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) stat­ed that a po­lice of­fi­cer has been ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the al­leged sub­sti­tu­tion of seized nar­cotics at the Ch­agua­nas Po­lice Sta­tion.

Four po­lice of­fi­cers ap­peared be­fore the San Fer­nan­do Mas­ters’ Court on Wednes­day charged with of­fences re­lat­ing to mis­be­hav­iour in pub­lic of­fice.

The Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go Lim­it­ed has signed a new Gas Sales Con­tract with Point Lisas Ni­tro­gen Lim­it­ed to con­tin­ue sup­ply­ing nat­ur­al gas to the com­pa­ny’s am­mo­nia plant.

Three peo­ple were ar­rest­ed and a ri­fle and quan­ti­ties of am­mu­ni­tion seized dur­ing State of Emer­gency op­er­a­tions in Cen­tral Di­vi­sion on Thurs­day night.

In­com­ing Com­mon­wealth chair­man and Gas­ton Browne has called for clos­er co­op­er­a­tion among mid­dle and small na­tions, say­ing a stronger al­liance is need­ed as glob­al pow­er struc­tures shift.

A 51-year-old Beetham man is be­ing treat­ed for a gun­shot wound he sus­tained af­ter an ar­gu­ment with an­oth­er man in his neigh­bour­hood on Thurs­day night.

The death of an 11-year-old Stan­dard Four stu­dent of the Sanatan Dhar­ma Ma­ha Sab­ha-run Ca­roni Hin­du Pri­ma­ry School has sparked con­fu­sion, as con­flict­ing ac­counts have emerged about the cir­cum­stances lead­ing to her pass­ing.

The Op­po­si­tion is call­ing for greater clar­i­ty on the fu­ture of the US-in­stalled radar sys­tem in To­ba­go, af­ter De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge said Gov­ern­ment is work­ing with the Unit­ed States to find a re­place­ment be­cause the sys­tem is cost­ly.

For­mer na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty Mar­vin Gon­za­les has slammed the Gov­ern­ment for re­fus­ing to dis­close the cost of the new on­line Ar­rival/De­par­ture Card (ADC) plat­form, ac­cus­ing Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der of us­ing “na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty” as a shield for in­com­pe­tence.

To­ba­go hote­liers are an­tic­i­pat­ing a bumper East­er hol­i­day sea­son as vis­i­tors, par­tic­u­lar­ly Tri­nis, seem set to flock to the is­land with their fam­i­lies.

While T&T re­mains un­der a State of Emer­gency (SoE) aimed at curb­ing vi­o­lent crime, busi­ness op­er­a­tors along High Street in San Fer­nan­do say rob­beries and pick­pock­et­ing con­tin­ue much as be­fore.