The Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty, Fitzger­ald Hinds, be­lieves the dis­re­gard that crim­i­nals have for law en­force­ment lies at the heart of the re­cent at­tacks on the homes of three prison of­fi­cers.

With Car­ni­val par­ties now in high gear, the Po­lice Ser­vice says it is ramp­ing up its op­er­a­tions around the coun­try to en­sure a safe sea­son and that it will be pay­ing par­tic­u­lar at­ten­tion to the is­sue of dri­ving un­der the in­flu­ence.

The gov­ern­ment of Chi­na has agreed to pro­vide Grena­da with gra­tu­itous aid of 100 mil­lion yuan for mu­tu­al­ly agreed-up­on projects. 

Machel Mon­tano has en­tered the Chut­ney So­ca Monarch and has qual­i­fied for the se­mi-fi­nals of the event.

With 1,083 op­er­a­tions un­der its belt, the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) re­ports that it is mak­ing in­roads with its cur­rent crime fight­ing ini­tia­tives.

The gov­ern­ment on Wednes­day de­clared States of Pub­lic Emer­gency in sec­tions of the Cor­po­rate Area and sec­tions of the neigh­bor­ing parish of St. Cather­ine in the wake of an in­crease in gang con­flicts.

Six sus­pects were ar­rest­ed and two firearms and quan­ti­ties of am­mu­ni­tion and nar­cotics seized, dur­ing State of Emer­gency op­er­a­tions in the South­ern and North­ern Di­vi­sions on Wednes­day.

A Freeport busi­ness­woman has been grant­ed bail with sure­ty in the sum of $750,000, when she ap­peared be­fore a Mas­ter of the High Court yes­ter­day, charged with ex­tor­tion and rob­bery of­fences.

To­ba­go po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing a break-in and lar­ce­ny at a jew­ellery store in Scar­bor­ough. 

A To­ba­go man was shot while try­ing to es­cape a gun­man who fired af­ter him while he was lim­ing yes­ter­day.

The moth­er of Maria Paul has fi­nal­ly re­ceived DNA con­fir­ma­tion that hu­man re­mains found in Waller­field are those of her daugh­ter.

A group of Mara­cas Fish­er­men were able to res­cue three fel­low boaters when their boat over­turned on Wednes­day af­ter­noon.