Weeks ahead of the open­ing of the new air­port ter­mi­nal in To­ba­go, the le­gal de­f­i­n­i­tion of the air­port in Crown Point has been changed.

A sus­pend­ed po­lice of­fi­cer has been giv­en the green light to sue the Of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) over its de­lay in pros­e­cut­ing for mis­be­hav­iour in pub­lic of­fice in re­la­tion to an al­leged in­ci­dent which oc­curred al­most 15 years ago. 

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine said the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) is tak­ing ac­tion to pre­vent a wa­ter cri­sis as the is­land braces for drought-like con­di­tions in the next two months.

Trinida­di­ans Oren Gor­don and Sariyah Mo­hammed re­turned from Cu­ba with first­hand ac­counts of an is­land grap­pling with wa­ter ra­tioning, pro­longed black­outs, fu­el short­ages, poor garbage col­lec­tion and short­ages of food and med­ical sup­plies.

Se­cu­ri­ty vul­ner­a­bil­i­ties at San Juan North Sec­ondary School had been iden­ti­fied and re­port­ed be­fore an unau­tho­rised per­son en­tered the com­pound and robbed a mem­ber of staff last Thurs­day, ac­cord­ing to the Es­tate Po­lice As­so­ci­a­tion (EPA).

Joel Charles, 27, of Or­ange Field Road, Cara­pichaima, was killed and an­oth­er man was wound­ed in a shoot­ing along Or­ange Field Road, Cara­pichaima, ear­ly Fri­day morn­ing.

Two teenage boys were among four peo­ple ar­rest­ed in Mor­vant on Sun­day af­ter po­lice found two firearms and 20 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion in a car.

Two women were robbed at gun­point af­ter leav­ing a restau­rant at At­lantic Plaza, Cou­va, on Sat­ur­day night.

Three men were ar­rest­ed and a firearm and am­mu­ni­tion seized dur­ing an an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion in Las Lo­mas.

Two teenage boys were among four peo­ple ar­rest­ed in Mor­vant on Sun­day af­ter po­lice found two firearms and 20 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion in a car.

The Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Bands As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NC­BA) is ex­plor­ing greater cul­tur­al and Car­ni­val col­lab­o­ra­tion with Nige­ria fol­low­ing a meet­ing with Nige­ria’s High Com­mis­sion­er to Trinidad and To­ba­go, Jer­ry­mon Samuel Man­we.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS), Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion, Min­istry of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty and oth­er stake­hold­ers are co­or­di­nat­ing a re­sponse to se­cu­ri­ty con­cerns at San Juan North Sec­ondary School fol­low­ing the rob­bery of a teacher on the school com­pound.