Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro is clean­ing house and has is­sued an open in­vi­ta­tion to all po­lice of­fi­cers to reaf­firm their com­mit­ment to the job; or hand in their badge if they feel un­able to per­form.

The Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Work­ers’ Union (CWU) is ques­tion­ing the ra­tio­nale be­hind the ma­jor­i­ty state-owned Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s (TSTT) de­ci­sion to ex­pand its top man­age­r­i­al struc­ture, at a time when the com­pa­ny is grap­pling with de­clin­ing rev­enues and on­go­ing fi­nan­cial chal­lenges.

There is still no word on when the Gov­ern­ment will present its first Bud­get pre­sen­ta­tion in the Low­er House, with Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar on­ly say­ing that it will come “very soon.”

For­mer Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP), Un­em­ploy­ment Re­lief Pro­gramme (URP), and Reaf­foresta­tion work­ers are hope­ful that the up­com­ing Bud­get will bring back jobs, af­ter the Gov­ern­ment shut down their pro­grammes ear­li­er this year to root out ghost gangs and cor­rup­tion.

The staff at the US Em­bassy in Port-of-Spain are mourn­ing the loss of a naval of­fi­cer, who re­port­ed­ly died by sui­cide on Thurs­day night.

A po­lice con­sta­ble at­tached to the Barataria Po­lice Sta­tion has been ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the theft of $1 mil­lion worth of mar­i­jua­na from the sta­tion’s “strong room.”

A Laven­tille man died dur­ing a fa­tal road ac­ci­dent in To­ba­go on Thurs­day night, af­ter the car he was dri­ving crashed and flipped, caus­ing him to be eject­ed. The ve­hi­cle then land­ed on him.

Two rel­a­tives of a fa­ther and son who were killed af­ter a pur­port­ed shoot-out with po­lice at a Cunu­pia Church on Thurs­day re­main in cus­tody as po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue.

The in­ci­dent in which a prison of­fi­cer was stabbed dur­ing an at­tempt­ed rob­bery in St Au­gus­tine on Thurs­day, has been de­scribed as a crime of op­por­tu­ni­ty and not a tar­get­ed am­bush as pre­vi­ous­ly be­lieved.

Days af­ter his tele­vi­sion was dam­aged by po­lice of­fi­cers search­ing his Sea Lots home, na­tion­al award re­cip­i­ent Ter­rence David was gift­ed a brand new smart tele­vi­sion by an anony­mous good Samar­i­tan.

Nu­mer­ous is­sues plagu­ing the Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS), in­clud­ing a staff short­age at the in­sti­tu­tion, have re­sult­ed in a back-and-forth ‘blame game’ be­tween the cur­rent and for­mer pub­lic util­i­ties min­is­ters.

As the Na­tion­al Pe­tro­le­um (NP) Mar­ket­ing Com­pa­ny con­tin­ues its in­quiry in­to the death of Ria George, rel­a­tives, friends, and co-work­ers yes­ter­day re­mem­bered her out­pour­ing of love and kind­ness.