SAN DIEGO - Caribbean cit­i­zens are be­ing warned about the grow­ing threat posed by fen­tanyl, as Unit­ed States au­thor­i­ties in­crease ef­forts to dis­man­tle hu­man smug­gling and transna­tion­al crim­i­nal net­works op­er­at­ing along the south­ern bor­der.

The Sen­ate and the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives will each have sit­tings to­day - with priv­i­leges mat­ters per­tain­ing to Par­lia­ment’s Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion and Ap­pro­pri­a­tions Com­mit­tee (PAAC) hov­er­ing in the air around both Hous­es.

Four months af­ter Joshua Sama­roo was al­leged­ly killed by po­lice of­fi­cers dur­ing a dra­mat­ic shootout in St Au­gus­tine, the case took a shock­ing twist yes­ter­day, af­ter di­rec­tions were giv­en for his girl­friend, Ka­ia Sealy, to be charged with manslaugh­ter in his death.

For­mer Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith is call­ing on the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice to jus­ti­fy the de­ci­sion to charge the girl­friend of de­ceased shoot­ing vic­tim Joshua Sama­roo, warn­ing that pub­lic con­fi­dence in law en­force­ment has al­ready been se­vere­ly dam­aged.

Af­ter eight tire­less days of search­ing for two-year-old An­ge­lo To­bias-Plaza, Val­lence Ramb­harat, leader of the Hunters’ Search and Res­cue Team, says his group are men­tal­ly and phys­i­cal­ly drained.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro says the leak of cru­cial ev­i­dence in the dis­ap­pear­ance of two-year-old An­ge­lo To­bias-Plaza led cops on a “wild goose chase” in To­ba­go.

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro yes­ter­day said an In­ter­pol Red No­tice has been is­sued for a fourth sus­pect in the con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the mur­der of act­ing cor­po­ral Anus­ka Ever­s­ley and the theft of firearms and am­mu­ni­tion from the San Fer­nan­do Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Sta­tion. He said the sus­pect may have fled the ju­ris­dic­tion.

Com­ments and ban­ter be­tween sec­ondary school stu­dents via so­cial me­dia are be­lieved to be be­hind an at­tack that left a 14-year-old boy un­con­scious on Wednes­day af­ter­noon.

What was sup­posed to be a mo­ment of cel­e­bra­tion turned in­to mourn­ing and re­flec­tion last evening, as rel­a­tives, friends and neigh­bours of Aki­ni Kafi came out to re­mem­ber him with a march call­ing for an end to gun vi­o­lence.

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro yes­ter­day sent a stern warn­ing to in­di­vid­u­als who con­tin­ue to par­tic­i­pate in home in­va­sions across the coun­try.

A young woman was blind­fold­ed and sex­u­al­ly as­sault­ed in her home by an in­trud­er who claimed some­one had sent him to kill her. The at­tack oc­curred on May 16 in Moru­ga.

For­mer For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs min­is­ter Amery Browne has ex­pressed shock and dis­ap­point­ment over Trinidad and To­ba­go’s de­ci­sion not to par­tic­i­pate in a key Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly vote on a cli­mate-re­lat­ed res­o­lu­tion tied to an ad­vi­so­ry opin­ion from the In­ter­na­tion­al Court of Jus­tice (ICJ).