Al­though the State of Emer­gency (SoE) end­ed on April 13 and re­sult­ed in 14 peo­ple be­ing charged with crim­i­nal of­fences, in­ves­ti­ga­tions have con­tin­ued.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath met with em­ploy­ees of the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) yes­ter­day, some of whom he says were “on the chop­ping block” un­der the pre­vi­ous Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) ad­min­is­tra­tion.

While he wel­comes the in­volve­ment of at­tor­neys in shap­ing stand your ground leg­is­la­tion, Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der is adamant that voic­es from “all walks of life” must al­so be in­clud­ed in the con­sul­ta­tive process for any law or pol­i­cy.

The moth­er of mur­dered teen foot­baller Zwade Al­leyne yes­ter­day called on politi­cians to set aside their dif­fer­ences and ad­dress gun vi­o­lence in the coun­try.

Se­nior po­lice of­fi­cials are yet to re­ceive any cor­re­spon­dence from the De­fence Min­istry man­dat­ing them to reg­is­ter three of the re­cent­ly re­turned de­por­tees on the Pub­lic Sex Of­fend­ers Web­site.

A 52-year-old man from Beetham Gar­dens has been charged with the mur­der of a tod­dler who died from in­juries sus­tained while in his care back in 2023.

Just two weeks af­ter the daugh­ter of a San Fer­nan­do busi­ness­man was tar­get­ed in a brazen shoot­ing, there has been an­oth­er at­tack on the fam­i­ly—this time claim­ing the life of a 21-year-old em­ploy­ee.

An al­co­hol-fu­elled ar­gu­ment over a noisy fan led to a vi­o­lent out­burst in which a fe­male rel­a­tive fa­tal­ly stabbed 33-year-old Ker­ron Phillip at his Clax­ton Bay home ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing.

A 32-year-old Bor­de Narve man suf­fered se­ri­ous head in­juries af­ter he was at­tacked with a piece of wood dur­ing an ar­gu­ment with a vil­lager.

Three men had to be treat­ed at hos­pi­tal on Mon­day night af­ter they were in­jured dur­ing a shoot­ing in Diego Mar­tin.

An El Do­ra­do farmer was robbed of over $7,000 in cash by cut­lass-tot­ing men on Mon­day night while tend­ing to his pro­duce.

The Ro­tary Club of Princes Town host­ed a free med­ical out­reach at the St Mary’s Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School on Sun­day.