In re­sponse to the re­cent col­lapse of two high-pro­file court cas­es in­volv­ing po­lice of­fi­cers, Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher has con­firmed that dis­ci­pli­nary ac­tion is al­ready un­der­way.

Three sus­pects were ar­rest­ed, and three firearms and quan­ti­ties of am­mu­ni­tion and nar­cotics were seized dur­ing on­go­ing an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es con­duct­ed this week in the West­ern and North­ern Polic­ing Di­vi­sions.

The Be­lize Sen­ate has ap­proved leg­is­la­tion amend­ing the Mar­riage Act and rais­ing the le­gal mar­riage age to 18 years, as well as elim­i­nat­ing the pro­vi­sion al­low­ing par­ents or guardians to con­sent to the mar­riage of mi­nors.

NA­TO and Ukraine will hold emer­gency talks Tues­day af­ter Rus­sia at­tacked a cen­tral city with an ex­per­i­men­tal, hy­per­son­ic bal­lis­tic mis­sile that es­ca­lat­ed the near­ly 33-month-old war.

The five new­ly ap­point­ed mem­bers of the Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PolSC) re­ceived their in­stru­ments of ap­point­ment to­day.

The at­tor­ney for Han­nah Mathu­ra's fa­ther, An­drew, says she will ap­ply for bail for her client in the com­ing weeks, as his health con­tin­ues to de­te­ri­o­rate in prison.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, Amaya Tay­lor was at a shop at the cor­ner of Prince and George streets around 11:30 am on Thurs­day, when gun shots were heard.

The M.V. Cabo Star is not sched­uled to op­er­ate on Sat­ur­day 23 and Sun­day 24 No­vem­ber 2024, due to planned main­te­nance works, ac­cord­ing to an ad­vi­so­ry from the Trinidad and To­ba­go In­ter-Is­land Trans­porta­tion Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (TTIT).

Po­lice have ar­rest­ed four men from San Juan who are sus­pect­ed of be­ing in­volved in a dar­ing armed rob­bery at a su­per­mar­ket lo­cat­ed at the cor­ner of William Street and Lopinot Road in Arou­ca, on Thurs­day.

Yas­min Eid coughs and cov­ers her face, cook­ing a small pot of lentils over a fire fed with twigs and scrap pa­per in the tent she shares with her hus­band and four young daugh­ters in the Gaza Strip.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has an­nounced that a Caribbean-wide gangs data­base will soon be im­ple­ment­ed, along with the Cari­com Ar­rest War­rant Bill aimed at en­sur­ing there are no safe har­bours for crim­i­nals in any part of the re­gion. 

Even as the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has en­gaged Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) Roger Gas­pard re­gard­ing the alarm­ing col­lapse of two cas­es in­volv­ing ex­tor­tion and cor­rup­tion against po­lice of­fi­cers, the Po­lice Com­plaints Au­thor­i­ty (PCA) has launched in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the break­down.