Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro reaf­firmed his ze­ro-tol­er­ance ap­proach to il­le­gal quar­ry­ing and min­er­al pro­cess­ing, say­ing the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice has been pur­su­ing of­fend­ers for years and will con­tin­ue to dis­man­tle the crim­i­nal net­works be­hind the trade.

A Com­mu­ni­ty-based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme Com­pa­ny (Cepep) con­trac­tor has failed in its bid to re­vive its law­suit chal­leng­ing a mass ter­mi­na­tion ex­er­cise in the State com­pa­ny.

The Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) will end its con­tracts with at least 50 main­te­nance providers and their em­ploy­ees by year’s end and has sig­nalled the pos­si­bil­i­ty of fur­ther staff re­duc­tions as its chair­man seeks to re­verse, what he says, is a decade of se­vere fi­nan­cial mis­man­age­ment.

A de­ten­tion or­der has been is­sued for a woman who post­ed an im­age of the Prime Min­is­ter’s Philip­pine home on so­cial me­dia, call­ing on Venezuela to tar­get it.

Busi­ness­man Dan­ny Guer­ra was ar­rest­ed on a Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO) last evening.

Po­lice will be im­ple­ment­ing more stop-and-search ex­er­cis­es along the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route af­ter Wednes­day’s dar­ing day­light armed rob­bery aboard a maxi-taxi at Windy Hill in Arou­ca.

The Home In­va­sion (Self-De­fence and De­fence of Prop­er­ty) Bill, 2025, oth­er­wise known as the stand-your-ground law, will be in­tro­duced on the House’s agen­da to­day for fu­ture de­bate.

Leader of the Pa­tri­ot­ic Front, Mick­ela Pan­day, says the coun­try should not have to de­pend on the US to ad­dress the crime sit­u­a­tion.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine says To­bag­o­ni­ans will know the date of the next To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly elec­tion “soon­er than you think”, but in­sists that a Christ­mas elec­tion is con­sti­tu­tion­al­ly im­pos­si­ble.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is dis­miss­ing al­le­ga­tions from her coun­ter­part in St Vin­cent and the Grenadines that fi­nanciers of the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress were in his coun­try to help the op­po­si­tion New De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty in the na­tion­al gen­er­al elec­tion on No­vem­ber 27.

Po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst Dr Win­ford James says To­ba­go must adopt a fixed elec­tion date to pre­vent any ad­min­is­tra­tion from ma­nip­u­lat­ing when vot­ers re­turn to the polls.

The par­ents of a four-year-old boy who died at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex (EWM­SC) on April 17, are re­ject­ing the North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty’s (NCRHA) re­sponse to their at­tor­neys af­ter al­leg­ing that med­ical staff neg­li­gence led to their son’s death.