A 16-year-old boy is now in po­lice cus­tody af­ter al­leged­ly stab­bing a home­less man dur­ing an ar­gu­ment on Thurs­day.

The state has ac­cept­ed li­a­bil­i­ty and agreed to pay a traf­fic war­den $122,032 in dam­ages for wrong­ful ar­rest, false im­pris­on­ment, and ma­li­cious pros­e­cu­tion.

The rea­son why Aisha says she has no oth­er choice but to utilise sick leave is be­cause she has al­ready ex­haust­ed all of her va­ca­tion and sick leave en­ti­tle­ments in or­der to care for her four-year-old son fol­low­ing the clo­sure of schools in mid-March to stop the spread of COVID-19 in the coun­try.

“The great en­e­my of the truth is very of­ten not the lie, de­lib­er­ate, con­trived and dis­hon­est, but the myth, per­sis­tent, per­sua­sive and un­re­al­is­tic.”

New Na­tion­al Vi­sion po­lit­i­cal leader Fuad Abu Bakr has been re­leased on $75,000 bail af­ter ap­pear­ing in court charged with six crim­i­nal of­fences aris­ing out of his al­leged role in two re­cent protests in Port-of-Spain. 

Last week the In­ter­na­tion­al Labour Or­gan­i­sa­tion (ILO) warned that tens of mil­lions of mi­grant work­ers, forced to re­turn home be­cause of the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic af­ter los­ing their jobs, now face un­em­ploy­ment and even pover­ty in their re­spec­tive coun­tries.

A 58-year-old man from San­gre Grande has been charged with four (4) counts of sex­u­al pen­e­tra­tion. He ap­peared be­fore Mag­is­trate Bramb­hanan Dubay at the San­gre Grande Mag­is­trates’ Court to­day and was grant­ed bail in the sum of $150,000.

Naem Ali, a 43-year old man of Point Fortin was ar­rest­ed for Dri­ving Un­der the In­flu­ence, re­sist­ing ar­rest, and as­sault­ing Po­lice of­fi­cers on Ju­ly 1st.
The ex­er­cise was con­duct­ed by PCs Nanan, Ram­lal and Wpc Tim­o­thy.

As cit­i­zens went to sleep on Tues­day night un­easy and un­sure of what yes­ter­day's dawn would bring, the coun­try ini­tial­ly awoke to a sense of calm and qui­et yes­ter­day. But this did not last for long as res­i­dents from Beetham and Sea Lots joined to­geth­er to stage what was ini­tial­ly called a peace­ful protest in Port-of-Spain. While one at Sea Lots was bro­ken up to an ex­tent, some of them left to go in­to the city where they joined a protest which the po­lice used tear gas to dis­perse.

Man­ag­ing di­rec­tor of the En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty (EMA) Hay­den Ro­mano says state agen­cies should de­vel­op pol­i­cy po­si­tion to end squat­ting and land grab­bing.

The T&T Po­lice Ser­vice has start­ed pro­vid­ing coun­selling to the fam­i­ly of Or­nel­la Greaves, who was killed dur­ing protest ac­tion at the Beetham Gar­dens, Laven­tille, on Tues­day.

Hours af­ter crim­i­nal el­e­ments fire-bombed her car soon af­ter she ar­rived home fol­low­ing a day of re­spond­ing to fiery protests in Port-of-Spain on Tues­day, Ag Cpl Mole­ka Christo­pher yes­ter­day vowed not to be run out of the com­mu­ni­ty she had grown up in.