In a se­ries of re­cent an­ti-crime op­er­a­tions across T&T, the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) ar­rest­ed 12 sus­pects and seized sev­er­al firearms and a sig­nif­i­cant quan­ti­ty of nar­cotics, in­clud­ing co­caine val­ued at $19.2 mil­lion.

Busi­ness op­er­a­tors in Princes Town say they are scep­ti­cal about re­port­ing ex­tor­tion, de­spite mem­bers of the new­ly formed An­ti-Ex­tor­tion Unit vis­it­ing the area.

Joint po­lice and army pa­trols have start­ed in com­mer­cial dis­tricts in Ch­agua­nas to stem the rise in ex­tor­tion.

Fif­teen fam­i­lies at La Glo­ria Road in Mun­do Nue­vo, Tal­paro, may soon be cut off from the rest of T&T, as the on­ly ac­cess bridge to their homes is at risk of col­laps­ing due to its de­te­ri­o­rat­ing con­di­tion.

The Women in Ac­tion for the Needy and Des­ti­tute (WAND) Foun­da­tion has raised more than $500,000 in 2024 to as­sist the vul­ner­a­ble in this coun­try. This, pres­i­dent Aman­da Jar­dine said, ex­ceed­ed its half-a-mil­lion-dol­lar goal, and she aims to bring in more next year.

Em­ploy­ees of the Na­tion­al Pe­tro­le­um Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (NP) are claim­ing that the com­pa­ny is un­sta­ble fol­low­ing the res­ig­na­tion of CEO Derek Luk Pat last week, af­ter be­ing at the helm for a year.

Cit­i­zens and busi­ness­es in T&T con­tin­ue to face more chal­lenges for for­eign ex­change as RBC be­came the lat­est com­mer­cial bank to cut its cred­it card spend­ing lim­it.

Thurs­day’s rul­ing by the Privy Coun­cil al­low­ing em­bat­tled Au­di­tor Gen­er­al Jai­wantie Ram­dass to pur­sue a case over a Cab­i­net-ap­point­ed probe in­to the han­dling of a mis­rep­re­sen­ta­tion of rev­enue in the na­tion­al ac­counts is both “an em­bar­rass­ment and a con­dem­na­tion” for the State.

Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (DCP), Op­er­a­tions, Ju­nior Ben­jamin is ad­vis­ing po­lice of­fi­cers to abide by the ju­di­cial pol­i­cy that pro­hibits them from tak­ing their firearms in­to court un­til such time that a new di­rec­tive is is­sued.

The Jus­tice De­part­ment on Fri­day dis­closed an Iran­ian mur­der-for-hire plot to kill Don­ald Trump, charg­ing a man who said he had been tasked by a gov­ern­ment of­fi­cial be­fore this week’s elec­tion with plan­ning the as­sas­si­na­tion of the Re­pub­li­can pres­i­dent-elect.

The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion has an­nounced that sev­en stu­dents from Trinidad and To­ba­go have been rec­og­nized among the top re­gion­al awardees for the 2024 Caribbean Ad­vanced Pro­fi­cien­cy Ex­am­i­na­tion (CAPE) and Caribbean Sec­ondary Ed­u­ca­tion Cer­tifi­cate (CSEC) ex­am­i­na­tions, as an­nounced yes­ter­day by the Caribbean Ex­am­i­na­tions Coun­cil (CXC).

Coun­tries in the Caribbean and Latin Amer­i­ca con­tin­ue to face chal­lenges on mul­ti­ple fronts as they seek to main­tain healthy and sus­tain­able live­stock in­dus­tries and en­sure food se­cu­ri­ty for their re­spec­tive pop­u­la­tions.