Fifty-four peo­ple were de­tained by po­lice on Sat­ur­day night in­to Sun­day morn­ing, af­ter of­fi­cers from the Counter Traf­fick­ing Unit and the Crime Sup­pres­sion Unit con­duct­ed a raid at a house along Mar­shall Trace, Munroe Road in Cunu­pia.

Gladys Moses, the moth­er of mur­der vic­tim Michael Moses, says her son’s death is proof that the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE) is in­ef­fec­tive in keep­ing cit­i­zens safe.

Dri­vers can now re­new their li­cences up to three months be­fore the ex­pi­ra­tion date un­der a new change ap­proved by the Gov­ern­ment.

Of­fi­cials in Cu­ba re­port­ed an is­land-wide black­out Mon­day in the coun­try of some 11 mil­lion peo­ple as its en­er­gy and eco­nom­ic crises deep­en. Cu­ba has blamed its woes on a U.S. en­er­gy block­ade af­ter Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump in Jan­u­ary warned of tar­iffs on any coun­try that sells or pro­vides oil to it.

A 21-year-old man was shot dead in Co­corite this morn­ing af­ter pre­vi­ous­ly dis­miss­ing warn­ings about threats to his life.

The war in the Mid­dle East raged on mul­ti­ple fronts on Mon­day, as the U.S. and Is­rael pum­meled mil­i­tary tar­gets in Iran’s cap­i­tal, Is­rael stepped up its cam­paign against Iran-backed mil­i­tants in Lebanon and Iran re­tal­i­at­ed with a drone strike that tem­porar­i­ly forced the clo­sure of Dubai’s air­port, a cru­cial hub for trav­el­ers.

The mil­i­tary-grade ground/air task-ori­ent­ed radar at the ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port in Crown Point is no longer there.

A fire which broke out at the Beetham Land­fill on Fri­day has been ex­tin­guished and the site was ex­pect­ed to open with nor­mal op­er­at­ing hours to­day.

A for­mer Flori­da high school teacher, who plead­ed guilty last year to pur­chas­ing firearms for a Trinidad-based crim­i­nal or­gan­i­sa­tion, has now been sen­tenced to prison in the Unit­ed States.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing two sep­a­rate re­ports of rob­bery with vi­o­lence less than an hour apart in Port of Spain on Sun­day af­ter­noon.

Of­fi­cers of the Port of Spain Di­vi­sion and the Re­gion I Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions were kept busy late in­to Sun­day night as they in­ves­ti­gat­ed three sep­a­rate mur­ders, hours apart in Port of Spain and Laven­tille.

The board of the Chil­dren’s Au­thor­i­ty of T&T has been called on to re­sign im­me­di­ate­ly by Min­is­ter of the Peo­ple Van­dana Mo­hit.