De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge in­voked the 2014 mur­der of Se­nior Coun­sel Dana See­ta­hal dur­ing de­bate on the ex­ten­sion of the State of Emer­gency, ar­gu­ing that au­thor­i­ties failed to act de­ci­sive­ly de­spite in­tel­li­gence sug­gest­ing her life was un­der threat.

Po­lice said the woman was in the bath­room of her La Canoa Road home at around 6.55 am when she no­ticed three men in her home.

Months af­ter he was re­leased from a pre­ven­ta­tive de­ten­tion or­der (PDO) un­der the pre­vi­ous State of Emer­gency (SoE), busi­ness­man and al­leged il­le­gal quar­ry op­er­a­tor Dan­ny Guer­ra was gunned down at his San­gre Grande of­fice yes­ter­day af­ter­noon.

The T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) is as­sur­ing the pub­lic that they are not tar­get­ing any par­tic­u­lar com­mu­ni­ty dur­ing the cur­rent State of Emer­gency (SoE).

Grief-strick­en fa­ther Suresh Ram­di­al is plead­ing for an­swers and jus­tice af­ter the sud­den death of his 11-year-old daugh­ter, Ar­i­an­na Ram­di­al.

That’s how Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar yes­ter­day de­scribed the se­cu­ri­ty ben­e­fits ob­tained from her re­cent US trip, where T&T signed on­to the US-led Amer­i­c­as Counter-Car­tel Coali­tion along­side sev­er­al Latin Amer­i­can states and Guyana.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal and his pre­de­ces­sor, Stu­art Young, yes­ter­day clashed in Par­lia­ment over al­le­ga­tions sur­round­ing en­er­gy ser­vices com­pa­ny TN Ram­nauth and Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed.

Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) deputy leader Colm Im­bert yes­ter­day called out Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar on if she was aware the US Drug En­force­ment Agency (DEA) had sought the ex­tra­di­tion of two Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) op­er­a­tives be­cause stolen mon­ey was be­ing sent by them to a Colom­bian drug car­tel.

Op­po­si­tion MP for Arou­ca/Lopinot and for­mer na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty min­is­ter, Mar­vin Gon­za­les, says the Op­po­si­tion can­not sup­port the ex­ten­sion of the State of Emer­gency (SoE) be­cause the Gov­ern­ment has not pro­vid­ed suf­fi­cient ev­i­dence to jus­ti­fy an­oth­er emer­gency de­c­la­ra­tion.

De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge says the Gov­ern­ment will rein­tro­duce the Zone of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Bill and in­sists it will pass even with­out Op­po­si­tion sup­port.

Shock and hor­ror greet­ed To­ba­go fire­fight­ers ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing as they re­spond­ed to a fa­tal crash in Bon Ac­cord in­volv­ing one of their own.

One day af­ter an uniden­ti­fied man was struck and killed while try­ing to cross the east­bound lane of the Beetham High­way, po­lice are re­port­ing that there has been a 41 per cent de­crease in the num­ber of road traf­fic deaths for the year thus far.