An in­trud­er got more than he bar­gained for ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing when he was mauled by a dog af­ter a Pleas­antville fa­ther al­leged­ly caught him peep­ing through his teenage son’s bed­room win­dow.

The in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the death of Doo­d­hani Vish­vati Sook­nanan has stalled as the au­top­sy to de­ter­mine the ex­act cause of death is yet to be done.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der says an ar­rest is ex­pect­ed soon as the in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to threats made against teach­ers at Rio Claro Sec­ondary School con­tin­ues.

More than two years af­ter the mur­der of his son, 60-year-old Ger­ard Forde says he isn’t con­vinced that the Gov­ern­ment’s strat­e­gy to in­tro­duce Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions (ZOSOs) to tar­get crim­i­nals in des­ig­nat­ed ar­eas will yield any re­sults.

A High Court Judge has re­it­er­at­ed his plea for Par­lia­ment to con­sid­er leg­is­la­tion to hold po­lice of­fi­cers li­able when they abuse their au­thor­i­ty. 

Ca­lyp­so­ni­ans Aaron Dun­can and Akeem “Preedy” Chance are among the 16 fi­nal­ists who will seek to de­throne Squeezy Rankin (An­tho­ny La Fleur) in this year’s Young Kings com­pe­ti­tion.

The Grena­da par­lia­ment has giv­en the green light to leg­is­la­tion amend­ing the ex­ist­ing mar­i­jua­na leg­is­la­tion mar­i­jua­na even as Prime Min­is­ter Dick­on Mitchell Tues­day said that his pref­er­ence had been for the de­crim­i­nal­i­sa­tion to take ef­fect from the age of 18 years giv­en that it is al­so the age of civ­il re­spon­si­bil­i­ty.

The Oil­fields Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU) has wel­comed and sup­port­ed the pro­posed amend­ments to the Re­trench­ment and Sev­er­ance Ben­e­fits Act (RS­BA), say­ing the changes ad­vance a long-stand­ing work­ers’ agen­da.

Po­lit­i­cal Leader of the Pa­tri­ot­ic Front, Mick­ela Pan­day, has crit­i­cised com­ments made by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar ahead of to­day’s Sen­ate de­bate on the Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions (ZOSO) leg­is­la­tion, de­scrib­ing the ap­proach as ar­ro­gant and dis­mis­sive of the State’s re­spon­si­bil­i­ty to cit­i­zens.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has launched a scathing at­tack on the En­er­gy Cham­ber of Trinidad and To­ba­go, ac­cus­ing it of serv­ing the in­ter­ests of for­eign multi­na­tion­als and nar­row spe­cial in­ter­ests while un­der­min­ing lo­cal con­trac­tors and State-owned en­er­gy com­pa­nies.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo is cur­rent­ly in New York this week for a bond show, as the Gov­ern­ment in­tends to bor­row up to US$1 bil­lion on the in­ter­na­tion­al cap­i­tal mar­ket.

Com­mu­ni­ty se­cu­ri­ty stake­hold­ers are urg­ing the Gov­ern­ment to im­ple­ment tar­get­ed po­lice op­er­a­tions, while en­sur­ing safe­guards against abuse of pow­er, as part of their plan to in­tro­duce Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions (ZOSOs) in the fight against crime.