A stern warn­ing has come from Act­ing Di­vi­sion­al Fire Of­fi­cer Ansar Ali for peo­ple to re­frain from light­ing fires to clear agri­cul­tur­al lands af­ter an­oth­er bush fire erupt­ed along Rivulet Road in Cou­va, near the Point Lisas in­dus­tri­al re­gion.

Dwight Yorke's tenure as Trinidad and To­ba­go se­nior men's foot­ball head coach has come to an end. This was con­firmed via a Trinidad and To­ba­go Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion me­dia re­lease on Thurs­day af­ter­noon, which stat­ed that Yorke's con­tract was ter­mi­nat­ed by mu­tu­al agree­ment af­ter dis­cus­sions were held be­tween the TTFA and Yorke re­gard­ing the fu­ture of the role, in­clud­ing re­vised con­trac­tu­al terms and re­mu­ner­a­tion aligned to the next phase of the pro­gramme. .

A 23-year-old Arou­ca man was ar­rest­ed yes­ter­day for im­per­son­at­ing a po­lice of­fi­cer, ac­cord­ing to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice.

The St. Lu­cia gov­ern­ment Thurs­day con­firmed that it had for­mal­ly re­ceived com­mu­ni­ca­tion from the Unit­ed King­dom gov­ern­ment ad­vis­ing that a visa re­quire­ment will be in­tro­duced for its na­tion­als trav­el­ling to the Unit­ed King­dom.

A 55-year-old woman has been iden­ti­fied as the pedes­tri­an killed af­ter be­ing struck by a ve­hi­cle along the east­bound car­riage­way of the Churchill Roo­sevelt High­way near the Tumpuna Road in­ter­sec­tion yes­ter­day af­ter­noon, ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port.

Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath says while progress has been made in re­duc­ing dis­rup­tions out­side the class­room, trou­bling new da­ta shows be­hav­iour­al is­sues are in­creas­ing­ly oc­cur­ring dur­ing in­struc­tion­al time.

Po­lit­i­cal bac­cha­nal erupt­ed at the Siparia Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion yes­ter­day, af­ter Deputy May­or Shankar Teelucks­ingh was es­cort­ed out of the cham­ber by po­lice dur­ing a Pub­lic Health Com­mit­tee meet­ing.

Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) lec­tur­er and vlog­ger Rho­da Bharath says she is go­ing to be “savvy” in her so­cial me­dia posts as the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tion al­lows for those pre­sum­ably caus­ing pub­lic dis­cord to be de­tained.

Res­i­dents of sev­er­al com­mu­ni­ties con­sid­ered “high-crime” ar­eas have ex­pressed mixed views on whether the lat­est State of Emer­gency (SoE) will pro­duce any mean­ing­ful re­sults.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice car­ried out 95 op­er­a­tions on the first day of the State of Emer­gency (SoE), which be­gan on Tues­day, re­sult­ing in 18 ar­rests and the seizure of three firearms.

Of­fi­cers from a spe­cialised unit of the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice yes­ter­day shot and killed a man who was out on bail for mur­der.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les says the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) will host a pub­lic meet­ing in Tu­na­puna to­mor­row to ed­u­cate cit­i­zens about how their con­sti­tu­tion­al rights will be af­fect­ed un­der the new­ly de­clared State of Emer­gency (SoE).