A Sea Lots man was beat­en and killed af­ter he al­leged­ly sex­u­al­ly as­sault­ed a 13-year-old girl ear­li­er this week.

Au­thor­i­ties have seized more than 2,700 il­lic­it and un­safe items dur­ing a ma­jor an­ti-il­lic­it trade op­er­a­tion in South Oropouche, un­der­scor­ing the scale of il­le­gal goods cir­cu­lat­ing in lo­cal com­mu­ni­ties.

As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Rishi Singh has called on of­fi­cers of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) to con­duct them­selves with “class and dig­ni­ty” while strength­en­ing their en­gage­ment with com­mu­ni­ties through con­sis­tent foot pa­trols and re­la­tion­ship-build­ing.

The Counter Traf­fick­ing Unit (CTU) of the Min­istry of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty has filed 29 crim­i­nal charges against two Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­als fol­low­ing “Op­er­a­tion Pur­ple Rain”—a sweep­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to hu­man traf­fick­ing in Rio Claro.

The grow­ing role of ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence and dig­i­tal tech­nolo­gies in Trinidad and To­ba­go’s tourism sec­tor was among the key is­sues dis­cussed dur­ing a meet­ing be­tween YTEPP Lim­it­ed and the Tourism In­dus­try As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TIATT) on Tues­day at The Chan­cel­lor Ho­tel in Port of Spain.

Thou­sands of com­muters across Trinidad are ex­pect­ed to face ma­jor trans­porta­tion dis­rup­tions from Mon­day af­ter maxi taxi op­er­a­tors con­firmed they will pro­ceed with a na­tion­wide with­draw­al of ser­vice fol­low­ing un­suc­cess­ful talks with Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has ac­cused the Gov­ern­ment of di­rect­ing Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro to im­pose new protest re­stric­tions out of fear over grow­ing pub­lic dis­con­tent, while ques­tion­ing whether the coun­try’s top po­lice of­fi­cer is act­ing in­de­pen­dent­ly.

So­ca artiste Nailah Black­man is call­ing for em­pa­thy and uni­ty amid the on­go­ing con­tro­ver­sy sur­round­ing Ka­ia Sealy, say­ing she felt over­whelmed by what has been hap­pen­ing in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

On the same day ri­ot po­lice shut down the Ka­ia Sealy protest out­side the Of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP), the Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro brought in­to force a list of 15 no-protest zones, which in­clud­ed the DPP’s of­fice.

Two pro­test­ers and a so­cial me­dia per­son­al­i­ty, who were ar­rest­ed by po­lice on Wednes­day dur­ing a demon­stra­tion near the of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP), were re­leased on own bail last night, af­ter be­ing charged in con­nec­tion with their con­duct dur­ing the ac­tiv­i­ty.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has de­fend­ed the ac­tions of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) in shut­ting down a protest out­side the Of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions on Wednes­day, warn­ing that at­tempts to in­tim­i­date pros­e­cu­to­r­i­al of­fi­cials “will not be tol­er­at­ed” dur­ing the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE).

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is call­ing on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to end the State of Emer­gency, ac­cus­ing the Gov­ern­ment of sup­press­ing de­mo­c­ra­t­ic ex­pres­sion while dis­miss­ing pub­lic out­rage over the killing of Joshua Sama­roo in a po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing in Jan­u­ary.