The cold-blood­ed killing of spe­cial pros­e­cu­tor Ran­dall Hec­tor on Tues­day night, as he walked out of a church ser­vice with his wife and two young chil­dren in New­town, Port-of-Spain, has left the le­gal fra­ter­ni­ty in tears but al­so wary of the mes­sage be­ing sent by those who re­port­ed­ly or­ches­trat­ed the shoot­ing.

The As­sem­bly of South­ern Lawyers has un­equiv­o­cal­ly con­demned the heinous and bru­tal mur­der of promi­nent at­tor­ney Ran­dall Hec­tor, de­scrib­ing it as a grave in­jus­tice and an af­front to the sanc­ti­ty of hu­man life.

De­spite the coun­try end­ing 2024 with a to­tal of 624 homi­cides, Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion­er Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher says the TTPS had “sig­nif­i­cant re­sults” and “made sig­nif­i­cant progress” in 2024.

A for­mer na­tion­al foot­baller was ar­rest­ed on Old Year’s night af­ter of­fi­cers dis­cov­ered a cache of guns and am­mu­ni­tion, along with a quan­ti­ty of cash at his home in Pe­tit Val­ley.

T&T record­ed its first mur­der for 2025 one hour in­to the new year, even as a State of Emer­gency (SoE) was in full ef­fect for the coun­try.

A 72-year-old pen­sion­er is among three fam­i­ly mem­bers ar­rest­ed dur­ing a State of Emer­gency (SoE) raid in Low­lands, To­ba­go yes­ter­day.

The coun­try wel­comed its newest cit­i­zens on New Year’s Day, as the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal’s Ma­ter­ni­ty De­part­ment helped de­liv­er four ba­bies yes­ter­day morn­ing. The two girls and two boys were born be­tween 3.09 am and 10.08 am, ac­cord­ing to the North West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty.

Ch­agua­nas busi­ness own­ers are al­ready op­er­at­ing as if a cur­few is in ef­fect, says Ch­agua­nas Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce (CCIC) pres­i­dent Bal­dath Ma­haraj.

The Vic­ar Gen­er­al of the Cathe­dral of the Im­mac­u­late Con­cep­tion in Port-of-Spain, Fa­ther Mar­tin Sir­ju, says ques­tions about the church’s role in the fight against crime are mis­placed, as the state, and not the church, is re­spon­si­ble for re­duc­ing crime.

Two days be­fore the na­tion em­braced the start of a new year, the Gov­ern­ment an­nounced the im­po­si­tion of a State of Emer­gency (SoE), draw­ing lo­cal and in­ter­na­tion­al at­ten­tion.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine is urg­ing To­ba­go to em­brace 2025 with de­ter­mi­na­tion and uni­ty.

The Port of Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal’s (POS­GH) Ma­ter­ni­ty Ward wel­comed their first four ba­bies of 2025 this morn­ing, ac­cord­ing to a North-West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NWRHA) Face­book post.