A 61-year-old Ch­agua­nas man has been charged with var­i­ous of­fences, in­clud­ing mur­der and wound­ing, af­ter a shoot­ing in St James on Car­ni­val Tues­day af­ter­noon.

The Min­istry of Health has been giv­en 42 days in which to re­con­sid­er a re­quest to dis­close in­for­ma­tion re­lat­ed to a probe in­to the il­le­gal im­por­ta­tion of a pre­scrip­tion drug that caused eight cit­i­zens to go blind af­ter it was ad­min­is­tered.

A for­mer mu­nic­i­pal po­lice of­fi­cer has re­ceived the green light to con­tin­ue his law­suit against the Ari­ma Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion over a de­ci­sion to ter­mi­nate his em­ploy­ment.

An in­ter­na­tion­al re­la­tions ex­pert is call­ing on T&T and by ex­ten­sion Cari­com to do more to help de­fend Guayana over Venezuela’s am­bi­tions in the on­go­ing bor­der dis­pute.

Law en­force­ment of­fi­cials have suc­cess­ful­ly charged three men in con­nec­tion with sep­a­rate mur­der cas­es across Trinidad.

Po­lice say they have re­moved 22 unau­tho­rised cam­eras from var­i­ous lo­ca­tions in Sea Lots as part of a clam­p­down on il­le­gal elec­tric­i­ty con­nec­tions dur­ing a po­lice ex­er­cise ear­ly this morn­ing. 

A fu­ner­al home has been or­dered to pay over $800,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to a for­mer em­ploy­ee, who se­ri­ous­ly in­jured his back while lift­ing heavy bod­ies sev­er­al years ago. 

Of­fi­cers of the Re­gion I Homi­cide Bu­reau have re­ceived in­struc­tions from the DPP to charge a 61-year-old Ch­agua­nas man with var­i­ous of­fences, in­clud­ing mur­der and wound­ing, af­ter a shoot­ing in St James on Car­ni­val Tues­day af­ter­noon.

Two men were ar­rest­ed and po­lice seized quan­ti­ties of nar­cotics and a weapon in the North East­ern and South­ern Di­vi­sions over the past 24 hours.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) is ad­vis­ing their cus­tomers in parts of North-East Trinidad, served by the Hol­lis Wa­ter Treat­ment Plant that there will be an in­ter­rup­tion in wa­ter sup­ply on March 12 be­tween the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 12: 00 noon.

Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots leader Wat­son Duke is cau­tion­ing Prime Min­is­ter-des­ig­nate Stu­art Young not to get ahead of him­self, re­mind­ing him that he has yet to be of­fi­cial­ly ap­point­ed.

Amid a flur­ry of res­ig­na­tions with­in her par­ty, Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is urg­ing sup­port­ers not to be fooled by trai­tors of the UNC who have switched al­le­giance to the PNM in the lead-up to the gen­er­al elec­tions.