A 37-year-old St James man has been charged with the mur­der of 49-year-old Miris­sia Weekes, who died at the Port of Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal af­ter al­leged­ly be­ing shot.

An in­quest has been or­dered in­to the death of 26-year-old Sea Lots res­i­dent Ed­win “Teo” Richard­son, who died af­ter be­ing stabbed on Au­gust 26.

Deb­bie-Ann Ot­t­ley has made his­to­ry as the first woman to be elect­ed pres­i­dent of the Bank­ing, In­sur­ance and Gen­er­al Work­ers Union (BIG­WU).

Six peo­ple were ar­rest­ed and mar­i­jua­na and an air ri­fle were seized dur­ing an an­ti crime op­er­a­tion in the Siparia, San­ta Flo­ra and Erin dis­tricts on Wednes­day.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says the Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil (NSC) will meet Thurs­day to de­cide on the next step re­gard­ing the Srate of Emer­gency (SoE), which is sched­uled to ex­pire on Sep­tem­ber 17.

The Iran-backed Houthi rebel group on Thurs­day took over Yemen’s port city of Mokha, an area vi­tal to con­trol­ling ship­ping through the Red Sea, Houthi and Yemeni of­fi­cials said.

PNM Sen­a­tor and for­mer At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Faris Al-Rawi says busi­ness­woman Star Sab­ga has been re­leased af­ter her Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO) was of­fi­cial­ly re­voked on Thurs­day.

An ear­ly morn­ing mur­der has brought the num­ber of peo­ple killed in Mor­vant since Tues­day to four.

A Belle Vue res­i­dent has called for a per­ma­nent po­lice pres­ence in the St James com­mu­ni­ty, say­ing fears of gang vi­o­lence re­main high fol­low­ing a re­cent shoot­ing near her home.

Is­sues with­in the Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment's (PNM) San Fer­nan­do East con­stituen­cy ap­pear to be near­ing res­o­lu­tion, with par­ty groups set to be­gin in­ter­nal elec­tions on Sun­day, ahead of the elec­tion of a new con­stituen­cy ex­ec­u­tive on Oc­to­ber 15.

De­spite a year of diplo­mat­ic fall­out be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go and Venezuela, in­clud­ing be­ing de­clared per­sona non gra­ta in Cara­cas, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar ap­pears ready to turn a new page with act­ing Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez.

The Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil (NSC) will meet to­day to de­ter­mine the fu­ture of the State of Emer­gency (SoE), which is due to ex­pire on Sep­tem­ber 17, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has con­firmed.