Trinidad and To­ba­go is among 12 coun­tries in the Sheild of the Amer­i­c­as ini­tia­tive, ex­press­ing con­cern over on­go­ing protests and road block­ades in Bo­livia, warn­ing against ac­tions that could desta­bilise the South Amer­i­can na­tion’s de­mo­c­ra­t­i­cal­ly elect­ed gov­ern­ment.

The woman left paral­ysed af­ter the po­lice shoot­ing that killed Joshua Sama­roo is now fac­ing crim­i­nal charges linked to the same in­ci­dent, months af­ter video footage of the shoot­ing sparked pub­lic out­rage and calls for ac­count­abil­i­ty.

Three stu­dents are ex­pect­ed to be placed on ex­tend­ed in­def­i­nite sus­pen­sion pend­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to a fight which was cap­tured on video and cir­cu­lat­ed on so­cial me­dia.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors con­tin­ue en­quiries in­to the death of a man, iden­ti­fied as Ryan John, who was found on the premis­es of a house on Rail­way Road, San­gre Grande.

Po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tors have been di­rect­ed to pur­sue crim­i­nal charges in con­nec­tion with the po­lice in­volved shoot­ing death of Joshua Sama­roo, fol­low­ing con­sul­ta­tions with the Of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP), ac­cord­ing to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS).

A young woman was blind­fold­ed and sex­u­al­ly as­sault­ed in her home by an in­trud­er who claimed some­one had sent him to kill her.

Hy­att Re­gency Trinidad has do­nat­ed part of the pro­ceeds from its an­nu­al LIME Car­ni­val event to Unit­ed Way Trinidad and To­ba­go and Kids in Need of Di­rec­tion, con­tin­u­ing the ho­tel’s com­mu­ni­ty out­reach ef­forts.

Se­nior gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials, reg­u­la­tors, tech­nol­o­gy ex­ec­u­tives and pri­vate sec­tor lead­ers end­ed the sec­ond an­nu­al Am­pli­fy Sum­mit with a strong call for the Caribbean to ac­cel­er­ate dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion to im­prove long-term eco­nom­ic re­silience and re­gion­al com­pet­i­tive­ness.

Na­tion­al En­er­gy is still try­ing to col­lect mil­lions in dis­put­ed port fees from Cana­di­an fer­tilis­er gi­ant Nu­trien, even though the com­pa­ny’s Point Lisas ni­tro­gen plant has been shut down since Oc­to­ber last year.

"Stick to your guns and do your job ac­cord­ing to the law, which is there to pro­tect you."

Af­ter nine days of search­ing land and sea for two-year-old An­ge­lo To­bias-Plaza, po­lice say a sus­pect has con­fessed to mur­der­ing the child and dis­pos­ing of the body at sea.

A war of words has erupt­ed be­tween for­mer hous­ing min­is­ter Camille Robin­son-Reg­is and Land and Le­gal Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sad­dam Ho­sein over the Beau­car­ro and Al­lam­by hous­ing de­vel­op­ment projects, as well as com­ments re­lat­ing to the Of­fice of the Pro­cure­ment Reg­u­la­tor (OPR).