Two more po­lice of­fi­cers have been or­dered to be held un­der the pre­ven­ta­tive de­ten­tion or­ders, bring­ing to five the num­ber of serv­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) mem­bers cur­rent­ly held un­der State of Emer­gency pow­ers.

Two south Trinidad men who ad­mit­ted to beat­ing a neigh­bour to death while they were teenagers have been sen­tenced to 14 years in prison.

The Mar­itime Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go is call­ing for the in­tro­duc­tion of stricter leg­is­la­tion and tougher penal­ties for breach­es, say­ing de­ci­sive ac­tion is need­ed to de­ter reck­less be­hav­iour and pre­vent fur­ther loss of life.

Act­ing Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­driguez has ar­rived in Grena­da in what is be­ing de­scribed as her first in­ter­na­tion­al trip since as­sum­ing of­fice in Jan­u­ary.