Six po­lice con­sta­bles have scored an­oth­er vic­to­ry in their al­most decade-long le­gal bat­tle over pro­mo­tions. 

The fu­ner­al ser­vice for vet­er­an ca­lyp­son­ian Broth­er Valenti­no will take place on Thurs­day, Oc­to­ber 29, at the Cathe­dral of the Im­mac­u­late Con­cep­tion, In­de­pen­dence Square, Port-of-Spain.

A man be­lieved to be want­ed in con­nec­tion with a home in­va­sion and rob­bery in­ves­ti­ga­tion was shot and killed by po­lice dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in Ste Madeleine ear­ly this morn­ing.

A del­e­ga­tion of Venezue­lan pub­lic and pri­vate-sec­tor of­fi­cials from Su­cre State will vis­it Trinidad and To­ba­go next week to seek eco­nom­ic part­ner­ships and strength­en bi­lat­er­al ties.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the theft of gov­ern­ment-owned lap­tops from the Point Fortin West Sec­ondary School.

The Ju­di­cia­ry of Trinidad and To­ba­go has con­sult­ed ju­di­cial of­fi­cers, le­gal prac­ti­tion­ers and jus­tice-sec­tor stake­hold­ers on ways to im­prove the ad­min­is­tra­tion of fam­i­ly jus­tice and en­sure the time­ly res­o­lu­tion of cas­es.

An 18-year-old San­gre Grande man has been charged with shop break­ing and lar­ce­ny af­ter more than $41,000 worth of shoes, cell phones and a lap­top were stolen from a busi­ness in Va­len­cia last week.

The Asian Foot­ball Con­fed­er­a­tion has en­dorsed Gi­an­ni In­fan­ti­no for an­oth­er term as FI­FA pres­i­dent in an ap­par­ent turn­around in its stance from two months ago when it crit­i­cized the head of soc­cer’s world gov­ern­ing body for a breach of trust.

The South-West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty’s Board has been dis­solved af­ter a se­ries of res­ig­na­tions from Board mem­bers.

As sev­er­al state agen­cies—in­clud­ing the Na­tion­al Lot­ter­ies Con­trol Board (NL­CB), Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TSTT), First Cit­i­zens Bank (FCB) and Na­tion­al Flour Mills (NFM)—with­draw their spon­sor­ship of Di­vali Na­gar, Blue Wa­ters has in­creased its fi­nan­cial com­mit­ment to the an­nu­al cul­tur­al fes­ti­val, be­com­ing an of­fi­cial Di­a­mond spon­sor for its 40th an­niver­sary.

One year af­ter the Gov­ern­ment de­clared both White­hall and the Prime Min­is­ter’s of­fi­cial res­i­dence in St Ann’s to be in poor con­di­tion to ac­com­mo­date Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar in the con­duct of her na­tion­al du­ties, plans are now ad­vanc­ing to re­lo­cate key func­tions of the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter (OPM) from White­hall.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar yes­ter­day wel­comed her son, Kris Shi­va Bisses­sar, to the le­gal pro­fes­sion, af­ter he grad­u­at­ed with a law de­gree from the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies.