Al­though a post mortem was or­dered to be per­formed on de­ceased busi­ness­man Wayne Yip Choy yes­ter­day, in­ves­ti­ga­tors con­firmed a sui­cide note was found on his per­son min­utes af­ter he re­port­ed­ly shot him­self.

An armed of­fi­cer on du­ty at Poui Hill, La­dy Chan­cel­lor, Port-of-Spain, had cause to dis­charge his firearm dur­ing the wee hours yes­ter­day af­ter an in­trud­er was spot­ted in the area.

A Pe­tit Val­ley man plead­ed guilty to sev­en counts of as­sault af­ter he at­tacked and bit po­lice of­fi­cers try­ing to ar­rest him dur­ing an in­ci­dent last Fri­day night.

For­mer gov­ern­ment min­is­ter and po­lit­i­cal ac­tivist De­vant Ma­haraj has lost his fi­nal ap­peal against the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC) over its re­fusal to dis­close de­tails of this coun­try’s con­tro­ver­sial Drag­on Field gas deal with Venezuela.

The Board of Di­rec­tors and Sec­re­tari­at of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Man­u­fac­tur­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTMA) is mourn­ing the death of for­mer Pres­i­dent Wayne Yip Choy.

Two men were ar­rest­ed dur­ing an an­ti-ex­tor­tion ex­er­cise con­duct­ed by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice in the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion on Tues­day.

Four peo­ple are in cus­tody fol­low­ing sep­a­rate po­lice ex­er­cis­es in the North East­ern and East­ern Di­vi­sions tar­get­ing vi­o­lent crime and il­le­gal firearms.

A Pe­tit Val­ley man has been charged with sev­er­al counts of as­sault­ing po­lice of­fi­cers fol­low­ing an in­ci­dent in Arou­ca on Fri­day night.

The State has of­fi­cial­ly des­ig­nat­ed three ma­jor Mid­dle East­ern para­mil­i­tary and po­lit­i­cal or­gan­i­sa­tions as ter­ror­ist en­ti­ties, trig­ger­ing an im­me­di­ate freeze on any Trinidad and To­ba­go as­sets linked to the groups.

Twen­ty-three peo­ple, in­clud­ing two sons of for­mer al­leged gang and com­mu­ni­ty leader Sel­wyn “Robo­cop” Alex­is, have been de­tained un­der Per­son­al De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) is­sued un­der the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions, as se­cu­ri­ty forces con­tin­ue a sweep­ing crack­down on or­gan­ised crim­i­nal net­works op­er­at­ing un­der the State of Emer­gency (SoE).

A car chase in­to Cas­cade on Sun­day night end­ed with a shootout and the death of one man, po­lice said yes­ter­day.

Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion Min­is­ter Eli Za­k­our has sig­nalled a re­newed fo­cus on ac­count­abil­i­ty and per­for­mance at Caribbean Air­lines Lim­it­ed (CAL), fol­low­ing the air­line’s for­mal re­as­sign­ment to his min­istry.