Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has sought to clar­i­fy com­ments that ap­peared to sug­gest he would sup­port a cur­few af­ter a triple shoot­ing in Laven­tille left two men and a tod­dler dead and re­newed pub­lic con­cern over vi­o­lent crime.

Po­lice Con­sta­ble Ste­fon Khan has been grant­ed bail with sure­ty in the sum of $350,000 af­ter be­ing charged with mis­be­hav­iour in pub­lic of­fice. The charge fol­lowed an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the tam­per­ing and theft of po­lice ex­hibits.

Armed ban­dits robbed the Trinidad and To­ba­go Crick­et Board (TTCB) of around $15,000 when they stormed the or­gan­i­sa­tion’s of­fices at Clif­ford Roach Dri­ve on Fri­day.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) has con­firmed that re­pairs to the rup­tured trans­mis­sion main near Beetham Gar­dens were com­plet­ed at ap­prox­i­mate­ly 7:30 pm yes­ter­day, with full ser­vice re­stored.

The Cen­tral Bank of Trinidad and To­ba­go has wel­comed a state­ment is­sued by Re­pub­lic Bank fol­low­ing pub­lic con­cern over rais­ing cus­tomer fees.

A 47-year-old con­struc­tion work­er has been ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with a fire that de­stroyed a house along St Julien Road, Na­pari­ma Ma­yaro Road, Princes Town.

The As­so­ci­a­tion of De­nom­i­na­tion­al Boards of Ed­u­ca­tion (ADBE) is ques­tion­ing why Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath has not met with the body to dis­cuss press­ing is­sues af­fect­ing schools, in­clud­ing staff short­ages, in­dis­ci­pline and sup­port for spe­cial needs stu­dents.

Min­is­ter of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Khadi­jah Ameen has con­demned the as­sault of Port of Spain City Cor­po­ra­tion Al­der­man Wayne Grif­fith fol­low­ing the cir­cu­la­tion of a vi­ral video on so­cial me­dia.

Po­lice are seek­ing the ur­gent as­sis­tance of the pub­lic in lo­cat­ing 15-year-old Ariel Gar­cia, who has been re­port­ed miss­ing.

Griev­ing fa­ther Arnold Jo­gie says he feels his fam­i­ly is be­ing de­nied jus­tice as po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue in­to the jet ski tragedy that claimed the life of his sev­en-year-old daugh­ter, An­gel­i­ca Jo­gie, at Pi­geon Point Her­itage Park, To­ba­go, near­ly a month ago.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice has cor­rect­ed a pre­vi­ous state­ment say­ing that a woman and her son had been con­veyed to hos­pi­tal for med­ical treat­ment af­ter sus­tain­ing gun­shot in­juries in the fa­tal triple mur­der in Bel­mont this morn­ing. Trag­i­cal­ly, the child, Aki­ni Kafi, lat­er suc­cumbed to his in­juries while re­ceiv­ing treat­ment. His fa­ther, Ak­il Kafi, and An­tho­ny Wil­son were al­so killed. The woman re­mains un­der med­ical care.

Mo­torists are be­ing urged to ex­er­cise cau­tion while trav­el­ling along the Beetham High­way east­bound af­ter a rup­tured wa­ter line in the vicin­i­ty of the NP Gas Sta­tion is caus­ing haz­ardous dri­ving con­di­tions.