Mem­bers of the pub­lic, road­side ven­dors, and busi­ness own­ers wel­comed a po­lice walk­a­bout in San Juan on Fri­day, but many ex­pressed scep­ti­cism that in­creased vis­i­bil­i­ty alone would curb the cur­rent crime surge.

Jus­tice Rol­ston Nel­son, SC, a re­tired judge of the Caribbean Court of Jus­tice (CCJ), has is­sued a call for re­form in Trinidad and To­ba­go’s le­gal pro­fes­sion, urg­ing at­tor­neys to re­store ci­vil­i­ty and adopt manda­to­ry con­tin­u­ous le­gal ed­u­ca­tion to ad­dress de­clin­ing stan­dards.

More than 1,000 peo­ple have al­ready ex­pressed in­ter­est in plant­i­ng the trop­i­cal ap­ple va­ri­ety de­vel­oped by the late Kenyan in­no­va­tor HP Wambugu—an idea that once seemed im­pos­si­ble for this re­gion.

The Na­tion­al 4-H Coun­cil of Trinidad and To­ba­go is pro­mot­ing root crop pro­duc­tion in schools as part of ef­forts to help re­duce the na­tion’s heavy food im­port bill.

Three Erin fish­er­men, in­clud­ing Daniel Abra­ham, who were kid­napped in Venezuela late Thurs­day, have been re­leased, but four oth­er men have now been ab­duct­ed and their cap­tors are de­mand­ing a US$20,000 ran­som for their safe re­turn.

The an­nu­al Tu­na­puna Day mil­i­tary pa­rade went ahead on Sun­day with­out a for­ma­tion from the TTPS, but Tu­na­puna-Pi­ar­co Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion chair­man Josi­ah Austin said he was grate­ful for Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro’s sup­port in fa­cil­i­tat­ing the cel­e­bra­tions.

A Ch­agua­nas man caught dump­ing rub­bish on the road­side has apol­o­gised to res­i­dents and pledged nev­er to re­peat the of­fence.

Four peo­ple were in­jured in two sep­a­rate shoot­ings over the week­end in the south and south­west­ern dis­tricts.

The USS Ger­ald R. Ford Car­ri­er Strike Group has en­tered the Caribbean Sea to sup­port Unit­ed States op­er­a­tions aimed at dis­man­tling transna­tion­al crim­i­nal or­gan­i­sa­tions and coun­ter­ing nar­co-ter­ror­ism, the U.S. South­ern Com­mand (SOUTH­COM) con­firmed yes­ter­day.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s ex­ports of an­hy­drous am­mo­nia, urea and urea-am­mo­ni­um ni­trate will again en­ter the Unit­ed States du­ty-free af­ter Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump signed an Ex­ec­u­tive Or­der on 14 No­vem­ber mod­i­fy­ing the scope of rec­i­p­ro­cal tar­iffs in­tro­duced ear­li­er this year.

Chief Jus­tice Ron­nie Boodoos­ingh has promised that the “icon­ic Supreme Court build­ing in San Fer­nan­do” will be re­opened un­der his tenure.

Al­most two weeks af­ter Re­pub­li­cans lost bad­ly in elec­tions in Geor­gia, New Jer­sey, Penn­syl­va­nia and Vir­ginia, many GOP lead­ers in­sist there is no prob­lem with the par­ty’s poli­cies, its mes­sage or Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s lead­er­ship.