A 28-year-old man was ar­rest­ed and charged af­ter mu­nic­i­pal po­lice al­leged­ly found co­caine and mar­i­jua­na in his pos­ses­sion dur­ing a pa­trol in Curepe on Tues­day.

The on­go­ing Ebo­la out­break in Con­go is on track to sur­pass the dead­liest one in his­to­ry that killed over 11,000 peo­ple, the head of the World Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion said Wednes­day.

The same day prison of­fi­cers spot­ted a man at­tempt­ing to throw con­tra­band items of­fi­cers found im­pro­vised weapons in the ceil­ing of the East­ern Cor­rec­tion­al Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre (ECRC).

Two weeks af­ter dis­man­tling a sus­pect­ed hu­man traf­fick­ing ring in Cara­cas, Venezue­lan po­lice have res­cued 14 peo­ple who were al­leged­ly be­ing pre­pared for trans­port to Trinidad and To­ba­go for forced labour.

A man want­ed in con­nec­tion with the mur­der of a po­lice of­fi­cer was shot and killed by po­lice dur­ing an ex­change of gun­fire in Matu­ra on Tues­day night.

While the planned US$750 mil­lion re­vival of the for­mer Arcelor­Mit­tal steel plant at Point Lisas could pro­vide a much-need­ed boost to Trinidad and To­ba­go’s econ­o­my, two econ­o­mists are warn­ing that the po­ten­tial risks and fine print sur­round­ing the in­vest­ment can­not be ig­nored.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s plans to re­vive the for­mer Arcelor­Mit­tal steel plant at Point Lisas are rais­ing ques­tions over how the coun­try will pro­duce vana­di­um, where the raw ma­te­r­i­al will come from and whether there is enough en­er­gy ca­pac­i­ty to sup­port the am­bi­tious plans.

Cit­i­zens Against Noise Pol­lu­tion (CANPTT) is call­ing for a more re­spon­si­ble ap­proach to this year’s In­de­pen­dence cel­e­bra­tions, urg­ing au­thor­i­ties to en­sure that any of­fi­cial fire­works dis­play is con­trolled, time-lim­it­ed and con­sid­er­ate of res­i­dents, vul­ner­a­ble peo­ple and an­i­mals.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has ques­tioned the Gov­ern­ment’s han­dling of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s re­designed Coat of Arms, say­ing a change al­ready leg­is­lat­ed now sits in “ad­min­is­tra­tive lim­bo.”

One year af­ter the State of Emer­gency (SoE) forced the can­cel­la­tion of the na­tion­al pa­rade and fire­works, Trinidad and To­ba­go’s 64th In­de­pen­dence cel­e­bra­tions will see both events re­turn.

This an­nounce­ment was made by Min­is­ter of Agri­cul­ture and Fish­eries Ravi Rati­ram dur­ing an in­ter­view with Guardian Me­dia at the Di­vi­sion of Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment and So­cial Pro­tec­tion in Scar­bor­ough, To­ba­go.

Af­ter a decade of in­ac­tiv­i­ty, re­fur­bish­ment of the for­mer Arcelor­Mit­tal Steel Plant is un­der­way, rais­ing hopes among res­i­dents and small busi­ness own­ers that its re­vival will bring more jobs and re­newed eco­nom­ic ac­tiv­i­ty to the area.