Even as the coun­try’s na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty ap­pa­ra­tus con­tin­ues to op­er­ate un­der a State of Emer­gency (SoE), it has not pre­vent­ed a se­nior law en­force­ment of­fi­cial from be­com­ing a vic­tim of crime him­self.

The Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) has sub­mit­ted a coun­ter­pro­pos­al to the State, seek­ing to have part of the non-cash com­po­nent of the back­pay owed to its mem­bers pro­vid­ed through food cards, fu­el as­sis­tance and oth­er ben­e­fits.

Hous­ing Min­is­ter David Lee is ex­pect­ed to pro­vide an up­date fol­low­ing an emer­gency meet­ing con­vened to dis­cuss the can­cel­la­tion of the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion’s $3.4 bil­lion De­sign-Build-Fi­nance (DBF) hous­ing pro­cure­ment pro­gramme.

A men­tal­ly ill man was shot and killed by po­lice on Mon­day evening, af­ter he al­leged­ly at­tacked an of­fi­cer with a knife.

The Cus­toms and Ex­cise Di­vi­sion in­ter­cept­ed a ship­ment con­tain­ing mar­i­jua­na and a firearm dur­ing an in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tion at a Cus­toms Bond­ed Area in Port-of-Spain on Mon­day.

A US fed­er­al judge, who was born in Trinidad and To­ba­go, has come un­der fire by a US Con­gress­woman and an of­fi­cial from the De­part­ment of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty, af­ter she blocked the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion from cre­at­ing a cen­tralised data­base con­tain­ing So­cial Se­cu­ri­ty num­bers, in­for­ma­tion about vot­ers’ cit­i­zen­ship sta­tus, and oth­er sen­si­tive da­ta.

The Caribbean As­so­ci­a­tion for Fem­i­nist Re­search and Ac­tion, Trinidad and To­ba­go (CAFRA TT) has ex­pressed con­cern over the ar­rest of ac­tivist Alyssa Phillip dur­ing Labour Day cel­e­bra­tions in Fyz­abad, de­scrib­ing the in­ci­dent as a trou­bling de­vel­op­ment for free­dom of ex­pres­sion and as­sem­bly.

A Mara­bel­la busi­ness is count­ing loss­es of al­most US$50,000 af­ter thieves broke in­to its ware­house and stole thou­sands of brass com­po­nents over the long week­end.

A 34-year-old man has been charged with rob­bery with vi­o­lence fol­low­ing an at­tack in St Julien Vil­lage, Princes Town, ear­li­er this month.

An anx­ious Williamsville fam­i­ly is plead­ing for the safe re­turn of miss­ing busi­ness­man Kelvin Sama­roo af­ter his sil­ver Nis­san Almera was found aban­doned on a lone­ly road in Bar­rack­pore days af­ter he dis­ap­peared.

Al­most a year af­ter his death, pi­o­neer­ing Caribbean jour­nal­ist Rick­ey Singh has re­mained a pow­er­ful pres­ence in hemi­spher­ic me­dia cir­cles, as lead­ing jour­nal­ists gath­ered on the mar­gins of the 56th OAS Gen­er­al As­sem­bly in Pana­ma on Mon­day to dis­cuss a new ini­tia­tive bear­ing his name.

The Port of Spain City Cor­po­ra­tion will host its an­nu­al City Day Pa­rade to­mor­row as part of cel­e­bra­tions mark­ing 112 years of ser­vice, uni­ty and ex­cel­lence.