While the State of Emer­gency re­mains in ef­fect, po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the dis­cov­ery of a burnt body in Cou­va on Tues­day morn­ing.

Sev­er­al tourism in­dus­try or­gan­i­sa­tions have joined forces to form a new coali­tion aimed at strength­en­ing ad­vo­ca­cy and im­prov­ing stan­dards across the sec­tor.

Civ­il so­ci­ety groups in the Caribbean are be­ing urged to strength­en their pres­ence in re­gion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al dis­cus­sions on the tran­si­tion away from fos­sil fu­els.

Leatherback tur­tles and all sea tur­tle species in Trinidad and To­ba­go are legal­ly recog­nised as En­vi­ron­men­tal­ly Sen­si­tive Species un­der na­tion­al law, as of­fi­cials re­port de­clines in nest­ing ac­tiv­i­ty at sev­er­al beach­es.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the theft of a ve­hi­cle and US cur­ren­cy in St Clair on Wednes­day night.

Search ef­forts con­tin­ue for a fish­ing pirogue that left To­ba­go ear­li­er this month for St Vin­cent and the Grenadines, but the Trinidad and To­ba­go Coast Guard says there have been no con­firmed sight­ings of the ves­sel or its crew.

Po­lice are try­ing to iden­ti­fy a man who was struck and killed while cross­ing the Beetham High­way on Thurs­day morn­ing.

Caribbean Air­lines is lead­ing the way in test­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go’s new on­line im­mi­gra­tion and cus­toms plat­form ahead of its planned roll­out next week.

Four months af­ter their ar­rival in To­ba­go to in­stall a mil­i­tary-grade radar sys­tem at the ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port in Crown Point, the US mil­i­tary main­tains a con­sis­tent pres­ence on the is­land.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der says the coun­try will know more about those who are on a list of sus­pect­ed drug traf­fick­ers, com­piled by the Unit­ed States, soon.

The cost to shift the coun­try from the pa­per-based im­mi­gra­tion ar­rival and de­par­ture forms to a dig­i­tal plat­form re­mains un­known, as it re­lates to na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der is as­sur­ing that the au­thor­i­ties are in­ves­ti­gat­ing re­ports of bomb threats, the lat­est com­ing against a car­go plane that left the coun­try re­cent­ly.