On Oc­to­ber 5, 2022, firearms deal­er Brent Thomas was tak­en from his ho­tel by mem­bers of the Roy­al Bar­ba­dos Po­lice Force while en route to the US to seek med­ical treat­ment fol­low­ing his ar­rest days ear­li­er (Sep­tem­ber 29) with­out any charges be­ing laid in Trinidad.

For­mer na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty min­is­ter Gary Grif­fith has pushed back against claims raised in Par­lia­ment about the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing the 2014 mur­der of Dana See­ta­hal, SC, stat­ing that dur­ing his tenure, no re­ports ever reached the coun­try’s se­cu­ri­ty lead­er­ship in­di­cat­ing she was the tar­get of an as­sas­si­na­tion plot.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has strong­ly crit­i­cised the state­ment made by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar in Par­lia­ment on Fri­day, re­ject­ing al­le­ga­tions about the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) and urg­ing her to pro­duce ev­i­dence for the claims.

Head of the An­ti-Ex­tor­tion and Home In­va­sion Units, ACP Richard Smith, says there is a new trend be­ing used by crim­i­nals to ex­tort their vic­tims.

For­mer Peo­ple’s Part­ner­ship min­is­ter and cur­rent Con­gress of the Peo­ple Po­lit­i­cal Leader Prakash Ra­mad­har says De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge’s claim, in Par­lia­ment on Fri­day, that au­thor­i­ties failed to act de­ci­sive­ly on in­tel­li­gence in 2014 that could have saved Dana See­ta­hal’s life was fur­ther ev­i­dence of the coun­try’s need for in­ter­na­tion­al co­op­er­a­tion.

In March 2024, the Guardian Me­dia In­ves­ti­ga­tions Desk first high­light­ed the decades-long de­ba­cle of fam­i­lies wait­ing for land which they pur­chased from Pol­i­cy Con­sul­tants Lim­it­ed, owned by Dr Car­son Charles, a for­mer pres­i­dent of the Na­tion­al In­fra­struc­ture De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (NID­CO) as well as for­mer min­is­ter of works and trans­port and for­mer MP of St Joseph.

It’s been a decade since the sud­den shut­down of the Arcelor­Mit­tal Point Lisas, yet the hu­man cost of the clo­sure is still be­ing felt by for­mer em­ploy­ees.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the theft of a gold Cuban link chain that is worth an es­ti­mat­ed US $20,000 from a US na­tion­al in Ch­agua­nas on Fri­day morn­ing.

An off-du­ty coast guards­man was able to sub­due and dis­arm a man, mo­ments af­ter he stabbed an­oth­er per­son out­side a bar in Arou­ca ear­ly on Sat­ur­day morn­ing.

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

Two lo­cal Is­lam­ic or­gan­i­sa­tions, the Ja­maat al-Mus­limeen and the Is­lam­ic Mis­sion­ar­ies Guild, are among those ex­press­ing con­cern that Mus­lim pris­on­ers, par­tic­u­lar­ly those held in the Teteron Bar­racks, are be­ing de­nied their right to prac­tise their re­li­gion dur­ing the Holy Month of Ra­madan.

First Cit­i­zen Trustee Ser­vices Lim­it­ed has filed a claim seek­ing to re­cov­er over $15 mil­lion, plus costs, from To­bag­on­ian busi­ness­man Al­lan Warn­er.