Iran­ian state TV on Wednes­day is­sued the first of­fi­cial death toll from re­cent protests, say­ing 3,117 peo­ple were killed, while the for­eign min­is­ter is­sued the most di­rect threat yet against the Unit­ed States af­ter Tehran’s bloody crack­down, warn­ing the Is­lam­ic Re­pub­lic will be “fir­ing back with every­thing we have if we come un­der re­newed at­tack.”

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the mur­der of a woman whose body was found at the Ed­die Hart Sa­van­nah this af­ter­noon.

A man ap­peared be­fore the High Court this week charged with 25 counts of mo­tor ve­hi­cle lar­ce­ny and was de­nied bail.

As fight­ing edges clos­er to camps hous­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­als in north­east Syr­ia, What­sApp mes­sages cir­cu­lat­ing on­line de­scribe fear, aban­don­ment and the col­lapse of ba­sic hu­man­i­tar­i­an sup­port.

The Min­istry of Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion has re­fused a Free­dom of In­for­ma­tion re­quest that would have clear­ly ex­plained which traf­fic of­fences now car­ry high­er fines, de­spite grow­ing pub­lic con­fu­sion over the re­cent changes.

Six peo­ple were ar­rest­ed and quan­ti­ties of co­caine were seized dur­ing an An­ti-Crime Ex­er­cise con­duct­ed in the Princes Town Po­lice Dis­trict on Tues­day.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice has de­nied au­thor­ship of doc­u­ments cir­cu­lat­ing on­line that claim to out­line zone pri­ori­ti­sa­tion for polic­ing and in­tel­li­gence op­er­a­tions. It said the ma­te­r­i­al did not orig­i­nate from the Po­lice Ser­vice and was not ap­proved or dis­trib­uted through any of­fi­cial chan­nel.

The MV Blue Wave Har­mo­ny is con­firmed to ar­rive in Trinidad and To­ba­go on Thurs­day af­ter­noon, as fi­nal prepa­ra­tions are made for its in­tro­duc­tion in­to the in­ter-is­land sea bridge ser­vice.

The Law As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go has called for manda­to­ry body worn cam­eras and stricter over­sight as the Gov­ern­ment moves to roll out Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions (ZOSOs).

Suri­name has con­firmed an out­break of the mos­qui­to borne Chikun­gun­ya virus, with none of those per­sons who test­ed pos­i­tive hav­ing trav­elled over­seas in re­cent times.

Lot­tery gam­bling will of­fi­cial­ly ex­pand to Sun­days from Feb­ru­ary 8, fol­low­ing a re­vised no­tice is­sued by the Na­tion­al Lot­ter­ies Con­trol Board con­firm­ing new draw times for se­lect­ed games.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says her gov­ern­ment is pre­pared to con­sid­er leg­is­la­tion to reg­u­late so­cial me­dia use for chil­dren un­der the age of 12 years, as con­cerns grow about the risks young users face on­line.