The Na­tion­al Trade Union Cen­tre of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NATUC) is con­demn­ing the Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to es­tab­lish 15 “no-protest zones” un­der the cur­rent State of Emer­gency, de­scrib­ing the move as a di­rect at­tack on democ­ra­cy and con­sti­tu­tion­al free­doms.

A court in Kenya on Fri­day sus­pend­ed a U.S. plan to es­tab­lish a quar­an­tine fa­cil­i­ty for Amer­i­cans ex­posed to a rare type of Ebo­la virus spread­ing in north­east­ern Con­go, fol­low­ing a back­lash by med­ical work­ers and ac­tivists.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) on Fri­day launched its Diplo­mat­ic Se­cu­ri­ty Unit, which Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro says is about demon­strat­ing to the in­ter­na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty that the coun­try ho­n­ours its oblig­a­tions un­der the Vi­en­na Con­ven­tion.

One man was ar­rest­ed and three firearms, along with quan­ti­ties of am­mu­ni­tion and cannabis, were seized dur­ing a se­ries of an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es con­duct­ed by po­lice in the North-East­ern and South-West­ern Di­vi­sions this week.

A heavy po­lice pres­ence de­scend­ed on Bar­ba­dos Road, Fed­er­a­tion Park on Fri­day af­ter­noon ahead of a planned ‘Jus­tice for Ka­ia Sealy’ protest out­side the Trinidad and To­ba­go Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre (TTF­SC).

May­or of Ari­ma, Bal­li­ram Ma­haraj, has urged cit­i­zens to em­brace uni­ty as Trinidad and To­ba­go marks the 181st an­niver­sary of In­di­an Ar­rival Day.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has ex­tend­ed greet­ings to cit­i­zens of Trinidad and To­ba­go on the oc­ca­sion of In­di­an Ar­rival Day, de­scrib­ing it as a defin­ing mile­stone in the na­tion’s his­to­ry.

A mas­sive, tem­po­rary dis­rup­tion in pipe-borne wa­ter sup­ply is on the hori­zon for thou­sands of cit­i­zens across North, Cen­tral, and South Trinidad.

A Sea Lots man was beat­en and killed af­ter he al­leged­ly sex­u­al­ly as­sault­ed a 13-year-old girl ear­li­er this week.

Au­thor­i­ties have seized more than 2,700 il­lic­it and un­safe items dur­ing a ma­jor an­ti-il­lic­it trade op­er­a­tion in South Oropouche, un­der­scor­ing the scale of il­le­gal goods cir­cu­lat­ing in lo­cal com­mu­ni­ties.

As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Rishi Singh has called on of­fi­cers of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) to con­duct them­selves with “class and dig­ni­ty” while strength­en­ing their en­gage­ment with com­mu­ni­ties through con­sis­tent foot pa­trols and re­la­tion­ship-build­ing.

The Counter Traf­fick­ing Unit (CTU) of the Min­istry of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty has filed 29 crim­i­nal charges against two Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­als fol­low­ing “Op­er­a­tion Pur­ple Rain”—a sweep­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to hu­man traf­fick­ing in Rio Claro.