The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice is seek­ing pub­lic as­sis­tance in lo­cat­ing 21-year-old Make­da Gift.

The Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture and Fish­eries has launched a Co­coa and Cof­fee Steer­ing Com­mit­tee to guide de­vel­op­ment of the sec­tors.

For­mer Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has crit­i­cised the cur­rent ad­min­is­tra­tion’s han­dling of na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty, de­scrib­ing the gov­ern­ment’s crime plan as a rolling “state of emer­gency” based on “pub­lic ma­nip­u­la­tions”. Dr Row­ley not­ed that those now in pow­er once mocked his ef­forts to treat vi­o­lent crime as a pub­lic health is­sue.

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro says the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice re­mains res­olute in de­fend­ing the in­tegri­ty of the badge, as a Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice of­fi­cer is ex­pect­ed to be charged with mur­der and firearms-re­lat­ed of­fences.

In­struc­tions have been giv­en to charge a col­league of mur­dered San Fer­nan­do Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Cor­po­ral Anusha Ever­s­ley in con­nec­tion with her killing and the theft of a large quan­ti­ty of firearms and am­mu­ni­tion.

Head of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Ser­vice (TTMPS), As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Sur­ren­dra Sagram­s­ingh, has been sent on leave as part of the probe in­to the mur­der of act­ing cor­po­ral Anusha Ever­s­ley and the theft of guns and am­mu­ni­tion at the San Fer­nan­do Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Sta­tion on Sun­day.

A $100,000 re­ward is be­ing of­fered by Crime Stop­pers of T&T for any in­for­ma­tion lead­ing to the ar­rest of those re­spon­si­ble for the mur­der of Woman Po­lice Act­ing Cor­po­ral Anusha Ever­s­ley, and a $5,000 cash re­ward for the re­cov­ery of each of the guns stolen from the Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Head­quar­ters, La­dy Hailes Av­enue, San Fer­nan­do.

The son of mur­dered busi­ness­man Dan­ny Guer­ra is among six­teen peo­ple de­tained un­der pre­ven­ta­tive de­ten­tion or­ders. Garvin Aaron Guer­ra, al­so called Gavin Aaron Guer­ra, is de­scribed as be­ing linked to the Sixx Gang and is be­lieved to have been in­volved in plan­ning re­tal­ia­to­ry shoot­ings in Va­len­cia, San­gre Grande and sur­round­ing ar­eas. It is the sec­ond time he has been held un­der a PDO. Po­lice sources said he was held in To­ba­go.

De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge has said that, in prin­ci­ple, home­own­ers should have the right to own firearms, as he point­ed to what he de­scribed as a pol­i­cy shift to­wards a more US-style ap­proach to gun own­er­ship in re­sponse to ris­ing con­cerns over home in­va­sions.

In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tors Sophia Chote and An­tho­ny Vieira have de­scribed the cur­rent crime sit­u­a­tion as “deeply dis­tress­ing” and “trou­bling”, while cau­tion­ing against as­sign­ing blame to the Gov­ern­ment or rush­ing to ex­pand leg­is­la­tion.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der says sev­er­al peo­ple have been de­tained as in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue in­to the mur­ders of four peo­ple, in­clud­ing a nine-year-old child, in Mor­vant on Sun­day.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is call­ing on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to ad­dress the na­tion di­rect­ly, fol­low­ing a string of vi­o­lent crimes in­clud­ing the mur­der of a po­lice of­fi­cer at a mu­nic­i­pal sta­tion dur­ing a gun theft and the coun­try’s first quadru­ple homi­cide for the year.