An es­caped mur­der ac­cused was shot dead by po­lice dur­ing an op­er­a­tion in Vista­bel­la on Fri­day night.

A his­toric South Oropouche land­mark was re­duced to ash­es on Sat­ur­day af­ter fire de­stroyed the aban­doned post of­fice and for­mer War­den’s Of­fice, with flames spread­ing to the roof of a neigh­bour­ing home where 15 peo­ple, in­clud­ing Venezue­lan mi­grants, live.

In­stead of spend­ing Eman­ci­pa­tion Day at cel­e­bra­tions or re­lax­ing with fam­i­ly, a group of Sea Scouts ded­i­cat­ed the pub­lic hol­i­day to clean­ing and pre­serv­ing the his­toric graves of the Sir La­m­ont fam­i­ly, for­mer own­ers of Palmiste Es­tates, while urg­ing cit­i­zens to help pro­tect Trinidad and To­ba­go’s her­itage.

A se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cer is in a sta­ble con­di­tion af­ter be­ing in­jured in an ac­ci­den­tal firearm dis­charge at the Min­istry of Works and In­fra­struc­ture build­ing in Port of Spain on Wednes­day evening.

The Pan Amer­i­can Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion (PA­HO) Fri­day called on coun­tries in the Amer­i­c­as, in­clud­ing the Caribbean, to strength­en pro­tec­tions for fam­i­lies against the grow­ing dig­i­tal mar­ket­ing of breast-milk sub­sti­tutes and oth­er prod­ucts that may un­der­mine breast­feed­ing.

Oprah Win­frey says she will close the school for un­der­priv­i­leged girls she set up in South Africa two decades ago at the end of next year.

The Min­istry of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty’s Counter Traf­fick­ing Unit (CTU) says it is re­view­ing al­le­ga­tions con­tained in a Guardian in­ter­view with a man who claimed he op­er­at­ed a hu­man traf­fick­ing ring in Trinidad and To­ba­go for years.

Pa­tri­ot­ic Front Po­lit­i­cal Leader Mick­ela Pan­day has ac­cused Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar of fail­ing to live up to her elec­tion promis­es and us­ing di­vi­sive rhetoric to de­flect crit­i­cism of her ad­min­is­tra­tion.

A de­ci­sion by the Salaries Re­view Com­mis­sion (SRC) to rec­om­mend a re­duc­tion in the salaries of the next Di­rec­tor and Deputy Di­rec­tor of the Po­lice Com­plaints Au­thor­i­ty (PCA) has been up­held.

Plan­ning Min­is­ter Dr Kennedy Swarats­ingh met with Is­rael’s Am­bas­sador to Trinidad and To­ba­go, Mat­tanya Co­hen, and MASHAV Di­rec­tor Gen­er­al Am­bas­sador Ey­nat Shlein on Wednes­day to dis­cuss ex­pand­ing bi­lat­er­al co­op­er­a­tion on mod­ern agri­cul­ture, ed­u­ca­tion, cy­ber­se­cu­ri­ty, smart cities, cli­mate re­silience and in­sti­tu­tion­al ca­pac­i­ty build­ing.

Gov­ern­ment has launched a ma­jor re­cruit­ment dri­ve aimed at ad­dress­ing long­stand­ing staffing short­ages with­in the Trinidad and To­ba­go Prison Ser­vice, with 246 prison of­fi­cer re­cruits of­fi­cial­ly be­gin­ning train­ing on Tues­day.

Key pro­vi­sions of the Civ­il As­set Re­cov­ery and Man­age­ment and Un­ex­plained Wealth Act, 2019 came in­to force on Ju­ly 28, bring­ing in­to op­er­a­tion the le­gal frame­work for civ­il as­set re­cov­ery, prop­er­ty re­stric­tion or­ders and un­ex­plained wealth pro­ceed­ings af­ter Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Car­la Kan­ga­loo is­sued a procla­ma­tion ac­ti­vat­ing sev­er­al sec­tions of the leg­is­la­tion.