The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) Mount­ed Branch marked 175 years of polic­ing tra­di­tion and ser­vice on Sat­ur­day with a com­mem­o­ra­tive ride through Wood­brook and St Clair.

Re­gion­al cit­i­zens should feel a sense of pride in the Caribbean Court of Jus­tice (CCJ) de­spite the cur­rent con­tro­ver­sy sur­round­ing the Court, since there is no in­sti­tu­tion made by man that will not be sub­ject to some con­tro­ver­sy or chal­lenge from time to time, says Bar­ba­dos High Com­mis­sion­er to Cari­com David Comis­siong.

Two men were fa­tal­ly shot by po­lice and two firearms seized dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in La Ro­main ear­ly yes­ter­day.

As they grap­pled to come to terms with the death of 18-year-old tal­ent­ed dancer Jed­da Be­har­ry, her dis­traught rel­a­tives said they would not speak un­til an au­top­sy is done on her body, which will con­firm the cause of her un­time­ly pass­ing.

Friends of Trin­i­ty host­ed its an­nu­al Wine and Cheese Fes­ti­val, cel­e­brat­ing its 12th edi­tion in an el­e­gant set­ting at Trin­i­ty Col­lege East, un­der the pa­tron­age of Lodge Trin­i­ty 1733 SC.

In less than 14 months, 67 in­di­vid­u­als on State boards or in pub­lic of­fices have ei­ther left their po­si­tions, been fired or been placed on ad­min­is­tra­tive leave.

A 20-year-old man de­tained un­der a Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO) is threat­en­ing ju­di­cial re­view and con­sti­tu­tion­al pro­ceed­ings against the State of Emer­gency (SoE) Re­view Tri­bunal and the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al, claim­ing he has been de­nied ac­cess to le­gal rep­re­sen­ta­tion de­spite pro­vi­sions in the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions (EPR).

Since Au­gust 1, she’s been im­mor­talised through AI-gen­er­at­ed memes, de­monised by some Gov­ern­ment sup­port­ers us­ing the same tech­nol­o­gy, and even had AI-gen­er­at­ed ear­rings, pen­dants, bags and T-shirts post­ed in her im­age.

The Of­fice of Pro­cure­ment Reg­u­la­tion (OPR) has found prob­lems in how the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) se­lect­ed and checked com­pa­nies for its can­celled $3.4 bil­lion hous­ing project.

Every year, Trinidad and To­ba­go mea­sures its bat­tle against vi­o­lent crime us­ing a sin­gle num­ber: mur­ders.

The alarm bells are ring­ing. They’ve been ring­ing for some time now, but the clos­er we get to a wa­ter cri­sis, the loud­er it sounds. The wa­ter is­sues in Trinidad and To­ba­go have tran­scend­ed ad­min­is­tra­tions.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) chair­man Mar­vin Gon­za­les is de­mand­ing an­swers from the Gov­ern­ment over the re­port­ed ab­sence of Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro from Trinidad and To­ba­go, ques­tion­ing whether an act­ing com­mis­sion­er has been ap­point­ed.