De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge has re­ject­ed the Op­po­si­tion’s claim that the Gov­ern­ment’s planned roll­out of 30 joint po­lice-army posts across Trinidad and To­ba­go is an in­tro­duc­tion of the Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions (ZOSO), in­sist­ing the ini­tia­tive is fo­cused on de­liv­er­ing mea­sur­able re­sults in the fight against crime.

Al­leged 6 Gang leader Shakyl O’Neil, al­so known as “Shak,” is among five peo­ple named in the lat­est Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) pub­lished in the Trinidad and To­ba­go Gazette.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der says the Gov­ern­ment’s plan to es­tab­lish ad­di­tion­al po­lice posts across Trinidad and To­ba­go forms part of a broad­er an­ti-crime strat­e­gy aimed at in­creas­ing law en­force­ment vis­i­bil­i­ty and im­prov­ing pub­lic safe­ty.

Amid an un­re­lent­ing crime cri­sis and an on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE), res­i­dents and busi­ness own­ers in com­mu­ni­ties ear­marked for the Gov­ern­ment’s pro­posed joint po­lice-army se­cu­ri­ty posts say they wel­come any mea­sure that could im­prove pub­lic safe­ty, but be­lieve the ini­tia­tive will ul­ti­mate­ly be judged by whether it de­liv­ers re­sults.

Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Ju­nior Ben­jamin says the an­nounce­ment by the Prime Min­is­ter that the coun­try would soon have 30 po­lice-army posts was agreed to dur­ing a meet­ing with the Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­istry.

The Eman­ci­pa­tion Sup­port Com­mit­tee of Trinidad and To­ba­go (ES­CTT) has re­ject­ed crit­i­cism from Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar over the treat­ment of Cul­ture Min­is­ter Michelle Ben­jamin dur­ing this year’s Eman­ci­pa­tion Day ob­ser­vances, in­sist­ing that the min­is­ter was nei­ther abused nor placed in dan­ger.

Chil­dren as young as three years old are learn­ing cre­ative and de­vel­op­men­tal skills, in­clud­ing tie-dy­ing, ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence (AI) and prob­lem-solv­ing, as part of Port-of-Spain South MP Kei­th Scot­land’s sum­mer camp aimed at help­ing young par­tic­i­pants de­vel­op skills be­yond the class­room.

For­mer UNC min­is­ter Vas­ant Bharath has crit­i­cised Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s con­tin­ued use of the phrase “stink­ing c***ie”, de­scrib­ing it as “con­duct un­be­com­ing” of the of­fice she holds.

A sec­ondary school teacher ac­cused of sex­u­al mis­con­duct in­volv­ing a Form Two stu­dent has lost his ap­peal against a judge’s re­fusal to or­der the dis­clo­sure of the iden­ti­ty of the per­son who re­port­ed him.

A 40-year-old St Au­gus­tine man has been sen­tenced to 16 years and nine months in prison af­ter ad­mit­ting to his role in the 2017 killing of a Tacarigua busi­ness­man dur­ing a botched rob­bery.

An in­sur­ance com­pa­ny has failed in its ap­peal chal­leng­ing a judge's de­ci­sion to grant a de­fault judg­ment against the di­rec­tors of one of its agen­cies for al­leged­ly fail­ing to re­mit al­most $1.4 mil­lion in in­sur­ance pre­mi­ums it col­lect­ed.

Not every­one hop­ing to join the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) is un­em­ployed. Some al­ready have jobs.