Two Venezue­lan na­tion­als were ar­rest­ed and a quan­ti­ty of un­cus­tomed goods seized dur­ing a mo­bile pa­trol ex­er­cise in the San­ta Flo­ra dis­trict on Thurs­day.

In­dia mo­tored in­to the Twen­ty20 World Cup fi­nal af­ter beat­ing Eng­land by just sev­en runs in a high-scor­ing semi­fi­nal at Wankhede Sta­di­um on Thurs­day.

The Con­gress of the Peo­ple (COP) has ex­pressed sup­port for the Gov­ern­ment’s de­c­la­ra­tion of a State of Emer­gency, say­ing the mea­sure al­lows broad­er crime re­duc­tion strate­gies to take root while pro­tect­ing law-abid­ing cit­i­zens.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Can­cer So­ci­ety (TTCS), in part­ner­ship with the Sco­tia­bank Foun­da­tion, has ex­pand­ed its an­ti-smok­ing and an­ti-va­p­ing ed­u­ca­tion cam­paign to sec­ondary schools in To­ba­go.

Ques­tions re­gard­ing whether se­nior na­tion­al foot­ball coach Dwight Yorke would be re­tained fol­low­ing last year’s un­suc­cess­ful World Cup qual­i­fy­ing cam­paign were fi­nal­ly an­swered yes­ter­day, when he an­nounced he had made the “dif­fi­cult de­ci­sion” to step down.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is ac­cus­ing Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar of be­ing “dan­ger­ous­ly dis­con­nect­ed from re­al­i­ty,” af­ter the Prime Min­is­ter sug­gest­ed that in­ci­dents of class­room vi­o­lence should re­sult in stu­dents be­ing ex­pelled.

De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge has re­quest­ed in­creased mil­i­tary sup­port from the Unit­ed States to help Trinidad and To­ba­go com­bat drug car­tels op­er­at­ing in the Caribbean.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is off to the Unit­ed States to­day, ahead of the Shield of the Amer­i­c­as sum­mit in Do­ral, Flori­da, to hold high-lev­el talks with US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump and se­nior US of­fi­cials.

For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers says the Gov­ern­ment has al­ready as­sist­ed at least three Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­als seek­ing to leave parts of the Mid­dle East af­fect­ed by the on­go­ing con­flict in­volv­ing the Unit­ed States, Is­rael and Iran.

Res­i­dents of San­gre Grande are call­ing for more con­sul­ta­tion with the gov­ern­ment on crime-fight­ing strate­gies, say­ing that a state of emer­gency (SoE) alone is not an ef­fec­tive so­lu­tion.

To­ba­go Ho­tel and Tourism As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent Regi­nald MacLean said the lat­est state of emer­gency (SoE) has come at the worst time for the is­land.

While the gov­ern­ment has de­clared an­oth­er state of emer­gency (SoE) to curb crime in parts of T&T, suc­cess in the South­ern Di­vi­sion will be mea­sured not on­ly by ar­rests and in­dict­ments but by how peace­ful the com­mu­ni­ty re­mains af­ter the pe­ri­od ends.