The Gov­ern­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go pro­vid­ed dis­as­ter re­lief as­sis­tance to a fam­i­ly af­fect­ed by a fire at Li­ons Gate, En­ter­prise, Ch­agua­nas, on Wednes­day. The as­sis­tance was de­liv­ered through the Min­istry of the Peo­ple, So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices.

Four men have ap­peared be­fore High Court Mas­ters on charges of house break­ing and lar­ce­ny aris­ing from re­ports made with­in the last 48 hours.

Three sus­pects were ar­rest­ed and two firearms and quan­ti­ties of am­mu­ni­tion were seized dur­ing an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es con­duct­ed in the Cen­tral and West­ern Di­vi­sions on Tues­day.

In­ter­na­tion­al law lec­tur­er at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, Dr Safiya Ali, says while small­er Caribbean states may feel tempt­ed to align with pow­er­ful ac­tors such as the Unit­ed States, re­cent US mil­i­tary ac­tions in the re­gion un­der­score the need for stronger re­gion­al sol­i­dar­i­ty ground­ed in in­ter­na­tion­al law and na­tion­al sov­er­eign­ty.

Iran­ian state TV on Wednes­day is­sued the first of­fi­cial death toll from re­cent protests, say­ing 3,117 peo­ple were killed, while the for­eign min­is­ter is­sued the most di­rect threat yet against the Unit­ed States af­ter Tehran’s bloody crack­down, warn­ing the Is­lam­ic Re­pub­lic will be “fir­ing back with every­thing we have if we come un­der re­newed at­tack.”

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the mur­der of a woman whose body was found at the Ed­die Hart Sa­van­nah this af­ter­noon.

A man ap­peared be­fore the High Court this week charged with 25 counts of mo­tor ve­hi­cle lar­ce­ny and was de­nied bail.

As fight­ing edges clos­er to camps hous­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­als in north­east Syr­ia, What­sApp mes­sages cir­cu­lat­ing on­line de­scribe fear, aban­don­ment and the col­lapse of ba­sic hu­man­i­tar­i­an sup­port.

The Min­istry of Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion has re­fused a Free­dom of In­for­ma­tion re­quest that would have clear­ly ex­plained which traf­fic of­fences now car­ry high­er fines, de­spite grow­ing pub­lic con­fu­sion over the re­cent changes.

Six peo­ple were ar­rest­ed and quan­ti­ties of co­caine were seized dur­ing an An­ti-Crime Ex­er­cise con­duct­ed in the Princes Town Po­lice Dis­trict on Tues­day.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice has de­nied au­thor­ship of doc­u­ments cir­cu­lat­ing on­line that claim to out­line zone pri­ori­ti­sa­tion for polic­ing and in­tel­li­gence op­er­a­tions. It said the ma­te­r­i­al did not orig­i­nate from the Po­lice Ser­vice and was not ap­proved or dis­trib­uted through any of­fi­cial chan­nel.

The MV Blue Wave Har­mo­ny is con­firmed to ar­rive in Trinidad and To­ba­go on Thurs­day af­ter­noon, as fi­nal prepa­ra­tions are made for its in­tro­duc­tion in­to the in­ter-is­land sea bridge ser­vice.