Pa­tri­ot­ic En­er­gies Ser­vices Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed has se­cured three ISO cer­ti­fi­ca­tions and is hope­ful the Gov­ern­ment will grant ap­proval for its part­ner, Maire Tec­n­i­mont, to un­der­take a US$50 mil­lion in­spec­tion study of the shut­tered Pointe-a-Pierre re­fin­ery.

Tu­na­puna/Pi­ar­co Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion (TPRC) chair­man Josi­ah Austin has re­ject­ed state­ments by Min­is­ter of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Khadi­jah Ameen, de­scrib­ing as “false and mis­lead­ing” the sug­ges­tion that cor­po­ra­tions are pri­ori­tis­ing cul­tur­al events over con­trac­tor pay­ments.

A Vista­bel­la woman has told po­lice she en­dured more than six hours of al­leged abuse and ter­ror be­fore she shot and killed a close male rel­a­tive with his own firearm in­side their home on Wednes­day morn­ing.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) says it is pre­pared to act against its own of­fi­cers as in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue in­to five mem­bers de­tained un­der Pre­ven­ta­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) dur­ing the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency.

Rel­a­tives of Mau­reen Os­borne are de­mand­ing jus­tice af­ter she was found dead on a burnt-out par­cel of land in Manuel Con­go, Ari­ma.

The moth­er of mur­dered busi­ness­woman Tri­cia Ma­haraj is call­ing on busi­ness own­ers—par­tic­u­lar­ly women—to be al­lowed to arm them­selves for pro­tec­tion.

Two more po­lice of­fi­cers have been or­dered to be held un­der the pre­ven­ta­tive de­ten­tion or­ders, bring­ing to five the num­ber of serv­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) mem­bers cur­rent­ly held un­der State of Emer­gency pow­ers.

Two south Trinidad men who ad­mit­ted to beat­ing a neigh­bour to death while they were teenagers have been sen­tenced to 14 years in prison.

The Mar­itime Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go is call­ing for the in­tro­duc­tion of stricter leg­is­la­tion and tougher penal­ties for breach­es, say­ing de­ci­sive ac­tion is need­ed to de­ter reck­less be­hav­iour and pre­vent fur­ther loss of life.

Act­ing Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­driguez has ar­rived in Grena­da in what is be­ing de­scribed as her first in­ter­na­tion­al trip since as­sum­ing of­fice in Jan­u­ary.

For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers has re­ject­ed claims made by Dr Ralph Gon­salves that he de­clined to at­tend a Cari­com re­treat in Nevis due to sea­sick­ness, in­sist­ing the re­mark was made in jest.

The aunt of sev­en-year-old An­gel­i­ca Jo­gie has re­mem­bered her as a joy­ful and lov­ing child fol­low­ing her death in a jet ski in­ci­dent at Pi­geon Point Beach, To­ba­go.