One day af­ter Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar said she would not hes­i­tate to de­clare an­oth­er State of Emer­gency (SoE) if se­cu­ri­ty threats re-emerge, for­mer Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith said such a de­ci­sion would be un­nec­es­sary if the po­lice and oth­er arms of law en­force­ment max­imised their ca­pa­bil­i­ties through tech­nol­o­gy.

High Court Judge Jus­tice Frank Seep­er­sad says the use of body-worn cam­eras dur­ing po­lice op­er­a­tions rep­re­sents a “win-win” for both law en­force­ment of­fi­cers and cit­i­zens, as the tech­nol­o­gy can pro­vide an ac­cu­rate, re­al-time ac­count of en­coun­ters which lat­er come be­fore the courts.

Crim­i­nol­o­gist Dr Randy Seep­er­sad says while “hard” polic­ing op­er­a­tions are a nec­es­sary part of any crime-fight­ing ini­tia­tive, he hopes that so­cial in­ter­ven­tions and com­mu­ni­ty-lev­el en­gage­ment would still form a crit­i­cal part of the pro­posed Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Bill.

Gov­ern­ment’s Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Bill in­cludes a clause where “threat­en­ing” or “as­sault­ing” po­lice of­fi­cers in spe­cial op­er­a­tions zones could in­clude things such as go­ing up in of­fi­cers’ faces or threat­en­ing to tape them with cell phones, and that car­ries a $50,000 fine and one year’s im­pris­on­ment, says Op­po­si­tion MP Do­minic Ro­main.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar de­part­ed Trinidad and To­ba­go last night for New York to at­tend the 81st Ses­sion of the Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly (UN­GA).

Frus­trat­ed over stalled wage ne­go­ti­a­tions, Port-of-Spain dock­work­ers have be­gun in­de­pen­dent protests out­side the port and plan to keep demon­strat­ing, while rul­ing out strike ac­tion.

A 36-year-old St Ann’s man was shot and killed by gun­men dressed in po­lice tac­ti­cal gear and wear­ing what ap­peared to be bul­let­proof vests yes­ter­day.

The State has been or­dered to pay al­most $400,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to a car rental com­pa­ny fol­low­ing a move to ter­mi­nate its con­trac­tu­al agree­ment to pro­vide ve­hi­cles for the now-de­funct Un­em­ploy­ment Re­lief Pro­gramme (URP).

A 62-year-old man has been sen­tenced to four years in prison af­ter be­ing con­vict­ed of chop­ping a man dur­ing an al­ter­ca­tion in 2021.

It is the swel­ter­ing class­room, the emp­ty wa­ter tank and the school trans­formed in­to a hur­ri­cane shel­ter. And when dis­as­ter strikes, chil­dren can face an­oth­er chal­lenge—be­ing asked to re­count their ex­pe­ri­ences to cam­eras and re­porters search­ing for the hu­man sto­ry.

One hun­dred and forty-two years af­ter scores of peo­ple were killed dur­ing the 1884 Muhar­ram mas­sacre, a per­ma­nent mon­u­ment com­mem­o­rat­ing their sac­ri­fice has been un­veiled near the Mon Re­pos round­about in San Fer­nan­do. The mon­u­ment was un­veiled dur­ing a cer­e­mo­ny on Sat­ur­day.

Hunters can be­gin pur­chas­ing State Game Li­cences from to­day ahead of the 2026-2027 hunt­ing sea­son, which opens on Oc­to­ber 1.