In a demon­stra­tion of uni­ty and sup­port, the TCL Group, in co­or­di­na­tion with its Ja­maican sub­sidiary Caribbean Ce­ment Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (Carib Ce­ment) and par­ent com­pa­ny Ce­mex, has launched a glob­al fundrais­ing ini­tia­tive, “To­geth­er for Ja­maica,” to as­sist the coun­try’s re­cov­ery ef­forts.

Of­fi­cers of the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice con­duct­ed a war­rant op­er­a­tion in the Scar­bor­ough yes­ter­day ar­rest­ing five mi­nors for out­stand­ing war­rants. The op­er­a­tion took place be­tween 8:00 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. and was co­or­di­nat­ed by In­spec­tor Wil­son and su­per­vised by Sergeant Yorke. The ex­er­cise was car­ried out by of­fi­cers as­signed to the Scar­bor­ough Po­lice Sta­tion.

A co­or­di­nat­ed joint op­er­a­tion by of­fi­cers of the Prison Emer­gency Re­sponse Unit and the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice re­sult­ed in the seizure of a quan­ti­ty of con­tra­band items at the Ex­ter­nal Re­mand Fa­cil­i­ty and the Re­fur­bished Gold­en Grove Prison, Arou­ca. The ex­er­cise took place be­tween 10:00 p.m. on Tues­day 2:30 a.m. on Wednes­day.

Of­fi­cials in the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice are cur­rent­ly en­gaged in the test­ing stage of the roll-out of an on­line ap­pli­ca­tion for a Firearm Users Li­cence (FUL).

France’s gov­ern­ment said Wednes­day it has start­ed a pro­ce­dure to sus­pend ac­cess to Shein’s on­line plat­form un­til the com­pa­ny proves that its con­tent con­forms with French law, af­ter a a con­tro­ver­sy over sex dolls with child­like fea­tures that were found list­ed on the fast-fash­ion gi­ant’s web­site.

The Ja­maican gov­ern­ment says the pre­lim­i­nary es­ti­mate of the dam­age caused by Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa when it slammed in­to the coun­try last Tues­day has been put at an es­ti­mat­ed cost as high as US$7 bil­lion.

Farm­ers in Or­ange Grove, Tacarigua, will now see reg­u­lar mount­ed po­lice pa­trols in their dis­trict as part of a joint ef­fort be­tween the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) and the Or­ange Grove Farm­ers As­so­ci­a­tion to re­duce rob­beries and crop theft.

De­moc­rats dom­i­nat­ed the first ma­jor Elec­tion Day since Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump re­turned to the White House.

A 40-year-old counter clerk was kid­napped and robbed af­ter en­ter­ing a car she be­lieved to be a taxi in San Fer­nan­do on Fri­day night.

Zohran Mam­dani was elect­ed may­or of New York on Tues­day, cap­ping a stun­ning as­cent for the 34-year-old, far-left state law­mak­er, who promised to trans­form city gov­ern­ment to re­store pow­er to the work­ing class and fight back against a hos­tile Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion.

Months of un­cer­tain­ty, court pro­ceed­ings and cam­paign­ing end­ed with Team Prime re­tain­ing lead­er­ship of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice So­cial Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion (TTPSS­WA) af­ter Mon­day’s elec­tions.

The North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA) will meet to­day with the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) and the Trinidad and To­ba­go Reg­is­tered Nurs­es As­so­ci­a­tion (TTR­NA) to con­tin­ue dis­cus­sions on nurs­ing-re­lat­ed con­cerns and to es­tab­lish a struc­tured plan to ad­dress op­er­a­tional chal­lenges.