Close to a month af­ter his brazen ab­duc­tion by men dressed as po­lice of­fi­cers, Cunu­pia busi­ness­man Su­vesh Ram­nar­ine has been re­leased safe­ly. The 33-year-old is said to be rest­ing and in good spir­its with his fam­i­ly.

A Bel­mont man was killed dur­ing a dri­ve-by shoot­ing in Port-of-Spain yes­ter­day af­ter­noon, while his girl­friend was in­jured and re­mained hos­pi­talised up to last night.

A 39-year-old man, de­scribed as a men­ace, has been fa­tal­ly shot by the po­lice af­ter he al­leged­ly at­tacked them with a cut­lass in Ma­yaro yes­ter­day morn­ing. He was iden­ti­fied as Gabriel Hink­son, 39, of Food Crop Road, Dou­ble Bridge, New­lands Vil­lage.

  Less than an hour in­to an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in the South West­ern Di­vi­sion, a po­lice con­sta­ble and an al­leged sus­pect were shot dead in Guapo on the out­skirts of Point Fortin.

Ex­perts in the en­er­gy sec­tor are warn­ing that T&T’s Drag­on gas agree­ment with Venezuela, up­on which T&T’s eco­nom­ic for­tunes de­pend, could be in jeop­ardy. They are now “un­cer­tain” about the fu­ture of the deal af­ter Don­ald Trump won Tues­day’s pres­i­den­tial elec­tions in the Unit­ed States, urg­ing T&T to adopt a wait-and-see ap­proach.

To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine says To­ba­go looks for­ward to work­ing with US Pres­i­dent-elect Don­ald Trump and his ad­min­is­tra­tion.

Busi­ness groups say Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert needs to fig­ure out how to make the process for ac­cess­ing for­eign ex­change (forex) for busi­ness pur­pos­es more trans­par­ent.

The PNM doesn’t need help from Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to deal with its in­ter­nal af­fairs, says for­mer min­is­ter Robert Le Hunte.

The Cou­va/Point Lisas Cham­ber of Com­merce (CPLCC) sees the de­ci­sion to redi­rect car­go ves­sels to the Port of Point Lisas (PPL) as a vi­able tem­po­rary so­lu­tion dur­ing the im­passe at the Port of Port-of-Spain (PPOS) at the start of the week.

Lawyers rep­re­sent­ing for­mer Fi­fa vice pres­i­dent Jack Warn­er have been grant­ed per­mis­sion to cross-ex­am­ine wit­ness­es for the Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al and Min­istry of Le­gal Af­fairs (AGLA) in his law­suit over dis­clo­sure of the le­gal fees paid by the State for still pend­ing ex­tra­di­tion pro­ceed­ings against him.

Busi­ness own­ers are fear­ful that if im­me­di­ate steps are not tak­en by the au­thor­i­ties, crime will cause the death of Port-of-Spain.

ACP Os­wain Subero, the re­cent­ly ap­point­ed head of the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) To­ba­go Di­vi­sion, met with re­li­gious lead­ers and Low­lands area rep­re­sen­ta­tive Wayne Clarke to dis­cuss crime and oth­er com­mu­ni­ty con­cerns.