A com­pa­ny with­in the Warn­er Group of Com­pa­nies has been charged with 16 counts of mon­ey laun­der­ing fol­low­ing a fi­nan­cial in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to al­leged il­le­gal quar­ry­ing ac­tiv­i­ties.

Of­fi­cers of the Home In­va­sion Team ar­rest­ed a 17-year-old boy of Farm Road, St Joseph, dur­ing an in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tion on Tues­day in con­nec­tion with a re­cent home in­va­sion at Val­sayn Av­enue, North Val­sayn.

U.S. com­pa­nies will be al­lowed to do busi­ness with Venezuela’s state-owned oil and gas com­pa­ny af­ter the Trea­sury De­part­ment eased sanc­tions, with some lim­i­ta­tions, on Wednes­day as the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion looks for ways to boost world oil sup­plies dur­ing the Iran war.

The Grena­da gov­ern­ment Wednes­day con­firmed that a fish­eries ban im­posed by the Unit­ed States has been lift­ed even as St. George’s ac­knowl­edged that there is still more work to be done.

For­mer prime min­is­ter and for­mer po­lit­i­cal leader of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), Dr Kei­th Row­ley, is stand­ing firm on his claim that he was not in­vit­ed to the par­ty’s 70th an­niver­sary cel­e­bra­tions, de­spite the par­ty pro­duc­ing ev­i­dence to the con­trary.

Po­lit­i­cal Leader of the Pa­tri­ot­ic Front Mick­ela Pan­day is call­ing for cam­paign fi­nance re­form, say­ing the ab­sence of prop­er leg­is­la­tion con­tin­ues to fu­el re­peat­ed ac­cu­sa­tions about po­lit­i­cal fund­ing.

Homi­cide de­tec­tives are search­ing for a man in con­nec­tion with the killing of a 28-year-old woman who was found stabbed at her home in Granville, Ce­dros, last evening.

A po­lice ex­er­cise in the Port of Spain Di­vi­sion on Tues­day re­sult­ed in the ar­rest of three men and the seizure of a high-pow­ered firearm and am­mu­ni­tion.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) says its crime-fight­ing op­er­a­tions will con­tin­ue un­in­ter­rupt­ed de­spite the re­moval of a Unit­ed States mil­i­tary radar that sup­port­ed sur­veil­lance ef­forts across the coun­try.

For­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley be­lieves the ev­i­dence is now clear that the Unit­ed States in­stalled the radar in To­ba­go for the sole pur­pose of cap­tur­ing de­posed Venezue­lan leader Nicolás Maduro.

At 11.56 am yes­ter­day, a US mil­i­tary air­craft touched down at the ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port in Crown Point.

De­fence at­tor­ney Steven Maw­er is ques­tion­ing why his teenage client was is­sued a Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO) in­stead of be­ing charged with pos­ses­sion of a firearm found at a house he and oth­ers were at two weeks ago.