The sev­en po­lice of­fi­cers ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the dis­ap­pear­ance of three firearms and a quan­ti­ty of am­mu­ni­tion from the Cen­tral Po­lice Sta­tion (CPS) on St Vin­cent Street, Port-of-Spain, on Mon­day re­main in cus­tody.

The sound of steel­pan and mem­o­ries of a life de­vot­ed to mu­sic filled the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah in Port-of-Spain yes­ter­day, as fam­i­ly, friends and mem­bers of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s steel­pan fra­ter­ni­ty gath­ered to bid farewell to in­ter­na­tion­al­ly ac­claimed pan­nist, arranger and com­pos­er Robert “Rob­bie” Greenidge.

A busi­ness­man from cen­tral Trinidad, sus­pect­ed of op­er­at­ing a broth­el and en­gag­ing in hu­man traf­fick­ing, has lost his le­gal chal­lenge over be­ing de­tained on a Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO) for the past three months.

Venezuela is mov­ing ahead with plans to send ap­prox­i­mate­ly sev­en tril­lion cu­bic feet of nat­ur­al gas to Trinidad and To­ba­go for pro­cess­ing, as work ad­vances on the cross-bor­der Lo­ran-Man­a­tee gas field.

Two men have been charged with wound­ing with in­tent fol­low­ing an al­leged cut­lass at­tack at the San Fer­nan­do Taxi Stand near High Street, Princes Town, on Au­gust 7.

The trop­i­cal wave we’ve been track­ing across the At­lantic is now just 550 km east of the Wind­ward Is­lands, and its chances of de­vel­op­ing have fall­en sharply.

CARI­COM IM­PACS says a four-week re­gion­al op­er­a­tion has dis­rupt­ed transna­tion­al smug­gling net­works and seized an es­ti­mat­ed US$54.5 mil­lion in il­lic­it as­sets and con­tra­band.

A 79-year-old pen­sion­er was as­sault­ed and robbed dur­ing a home in­va­sion at Pep­per Vil­lage, Gran Cou­va, on Tues­day evening.

Sev­en po­lice of­fi­cers have now been ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the dis­ap­pear­ance of three firearms and a quan­ti­ty of am­mu­ni­tion from the Cen­tral Po­lice Sta­tion at St Vin­cent Street, Port-of-Spain.

St Lu­cia Prime Min­is­ter and Cari­com chair­man Philip J. Pierre has up­dat­ed Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar on ef­forts to seek an ad­vi­so­ry opin­ion from the Caribbean Court of Jus­tice (CCJ) over the ap­point­ment of Cari­com Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al Dr Car­la Bar­nett.

Po­lice are con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the mur­der of 30-year-old moth­er of one Shan­nel Lewis, of Bridge Road, Brook­lyn Set­tle­ment, San­gre Grande.

Tu­na­puna/Pi­ar­co Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion (TPRC) chair­man Josi­ah Austin should now put to rest his chal­lenge against the po­lice post at the Ed­die Hart Recre­ation Ground n Tacarigua, Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Khadi­jah Ameen said yes­ter­day.