To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine says he’s pleased they have been able to curb crime on the is­land in the last year.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pene­lope Beck­les is call­ing on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to come out pub­licly and ex­plain why the coun­try is un­der a State of Emer­gency (SoE).

Thir­ty-five years af­ter the 1990 at­tempt­ed coup, au­thor Otan­cia Noel has chan­nelled her mem­o­ries and imag­i­na­tion in­to Town on Fire, a col­lec­tion of short sto­ries root­ed in one of the coun­try’s most trau­mat­ic events.

As the State of Emer­gency (SoE) en­tered one week yes­ter­day, Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro de­scribed it as “a piv­otal mo­ment for law en­force­ment” in which the true might of the men and women sworn to up­hold the law was high­light­ed.

A to­tal of 21 peo­ple were ar­rest­ed on Thurs­day in the north­ern and south­ern di­vi­sions, dur­ing on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE) op­er­a­tions.

For­mer fi­nance min­is­ter Colm Im­bert is promis­ing dis­missed work­ers of the Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) that the Op­po­si­tion will fight for them.

Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Fi­nance Kennedy Swarats­ingh is rub­bish­ing claims made by for­mer fi­nance min­is­ter Colm Im­bert that the un­em­ploy­ment rate has near­ly dou­bled.

A Venezue­lan woman ac­cused of run­ning a hu­man traf­fick­ing ring in Tu­na­puna has been de­nied bail and is ex­pect­ed to re­turn to court in No­vem­ber.

The Trin­ba­go Uni­fied Ca­lyp­so­ni­ans’ Or­gan­i­sa­tion (TU­CO) says a doc­u­ment cir­cu­lat­ing on so­cial me­dia that claims to be min­utes from a Fi­nance Com­mit­tee meet­ing held on Feb­ru­ary 5, 2024, is fake.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine says it is “a sad state” that the fi­nal rest­ing place of the coun­try’s first pres­i­dent and prime min­is­ter from To­ba­go, ANR Robin­son, ap­pears un­kempt and with­out reg­u­lar main­te­nance.

Ac­ci­dent vic­tim Saeed Ali is in ur­gent need of blood af­ter a se­ri­ous road traf­fic ac­ci­dent last Fri­day.

Po­lice are no clos­er to find­ing out the iden­ti­ty of a man found dead on a Scar­bor­ough beach two weeks ago or de­ter­min­ing how he died.