Le­gal Of­fi­cer for the Po­lice Ser­vice, Cor­po­ral Za­heer Ali, says it is im­por­tant that the po­lice of­fi­cers who were charged with ex­tor­tion be giv­en the op­por­tu­ni­ty to clear their names in a court of law.

As­sur­ances are be­ing giv­en by the To­ba­go Polic­ing Di­vi­sion that none of the 25 mur­ders record­ed on the is­land this year have gone cold.

The vic­tim, who has been iden­ti­fied as Shas­tri Anand Ram­per­sad, al­leged­ly was tak­en at gun­point by masked men around 2 pm, from his quar­ry at Pierre Street, Lendore Vil­lage, En­ter­prise.

The Cam­pus Ex­ec­u­tive Man­age­ment Team of The UWI St. Au­gus­tine is urg­ing Gov­ern­ment ne­go­tia­tors and mem­bers of the West In­dies Group of Uni­ver­si­ty Teach­ers (WIGUT) to re­turn to the ne­go­ti­at­ing ta­ble, so that the cur­rent im­passe can be brought to sat­is­fac­to­ry con­clu­sion.

Po­lice seized over $1.8 mil­lion worth of cannabis and ar­rest­ed one sus­pect dur­ing an op­er­a­tion in Cunu­pia yes­ter­day, the Po­lice Ser­vice has con­firmed.

A fire broke out at Up Top Bar & Lounge in Crown Point, To­ba­go on Wednes­day evening, se­vere­ly dam­ag­ing the lounge and near­by busi­ness­es.

The Unit­ed States Im­mi­gra­tion and Cus­toms En­force­ment (ICE) agency says agents from its En­force­ment and Re­moval Op­er­a­tions (ERO) in Bal­ti­more, Mary­land have ap­pre­hend­ed an un­doc­u­ment­ed Trinida­di­an na­tion­al among five im­mi­grants in a “tar­get­ed op­er­a­tion” through­out Mary­land.

Coun­tries of the world took turns re­ject­ing a new but vague draft text re­leased ear­ly Thurs­day which at­tempts to form the spine of any deal reached at Unit­ed Na­tions cli­mate talks on mon­ey for de­vel­op­ing coun­tries to tran­si­tion to clean en­er­gy and adapt to cli­mate change.

The Po­lice Com­plaints Au­thor­i­ty (PCA) has ini­ti­at­ed in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the col­lapse of two court cas­es in­volv­ing po­lice of­fi­cers this week.

Po­lice are on the high­way near Gol­con­da where the body of an ab­duct­ed man was found in a ve­hi­cle around 10:30 a.m.

Two days af­ter the body of a Cou­va man was found in the Ca­roni Riv­er – an­oth­er body has been dis­cov­ered in the mud­dy wa­ter. The de­com­pos­ing corpse was re­port­ed­ly dis­cov­ered around 7 am by the Hunters Search and Res­cue Team led by Val­lence Ramb­harat.

For­mer CL Fi­nan­cial ex­ec­u­tive An­dre Mon­teil has lost his fi­nal ap­peal be­fore the Privy Coun­cil re­gard­ing a dis­put­ed in­come tax as­sess­ment of over $20 mil­lion.