WASA Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer Dain Ma­haraj has con­demned what he de­scribed as a sec­ond brazen at­tack on the Au­thor­i­ty’s in­fra­struc­ture in less than 24 hours, fol­low­ing the theft of elec­tri­cal wiring at the Tabaquite Boost­er Sta­tion.

The na­tion is reel­ing from the trag­ic death of 12-year-old Mer­cedez Layne, spark­ing grief and out­rage across Trinidad and To­ba­go.

A 23-year-old man from Princes Town has been re­mand­ed in­to cus­tody af­ter ap­pear­ing be­fore the court last Fri­day on charges re­lat­ed to a vi­o­lent home in­va­sion.

Of­fi­cers of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) re­cov­ered two stolen ve­hi­cles dur­ing a co­or­di­nat­ed an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in the San­gre Grande Dis­trict last Fri­day.

AM­CHAM T&T Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer Ni­rad Tewarie has en­gaged in high-lev­el dis­cus­sions with Un­der Sec­re­tary for Trade and For­eign Agri­cul­tur­al Af­fairs at the Unit­ed States De­part­ment of Agri­cul­ture (US­DA), Luke Lind­berg, on the is­sue of tar­iffs im­posed on petro­chem­i­cal ex­ports from Trinidad and To­ba­go to the Unit­ed States.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro has ad­dressed crit­i­cism sur­round­ing the polic­ing of protests dur­ing the SOE, re­ject­ing claims that of­fi­cers have treat­ed some demon­stra­tions dif­fer­ent­ly from oth­ers.

Two men have died and three oth­ers were in­jured fol­low­ing a shoot­ing in Mal­ick on Fri­day af­ter­noon.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro says any de­ci­sion on whether to ex­tend the State of Emer­gency (SOE) rests with the Gov­ern­ment, as he de­fend­ed the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice’s han­dling of crime, protests and pub­lic se­cu­ri­ty con­cerns.

At­tor­ney-at-law Dr Mar­garet Satya Rose was to­day sworn in as an Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor, re­plac­ing Janelle John-Bates on the Op­po­si­tion bench in the Sen­ate.

The Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al has sought to cor­rect what it de­scribed as mis­in­for­ma­tion cir­cu­lat­ing on so­cial me­dia about the du­ra­tion of the cur­rent State of Pub­lic Emer­gency (SOE).

A Port of Spain man was ar­rest­ed af­ter al­leged­ly mak­ing racial­ly of­fen­sive and ob­scene re­marks di­rect­ed at Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and Hin­du deities.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has of­fi­cial­ly is­sued an Ex­pres­sion of In­ter­est (EOI) for body-worn cam­eras, seek­ing firms to sup­ply.