A 45-year-old Barataria woman was hos­pi­talised af­ter she was beat­en by ban­dits dur­ing a home in­va­sion on Sat­ur­day af­ter­noon.

Two 18-year-olds were among three sus­pects held in con­nec­tion with a home in­va­sion in which a quan­ti­ty of valu­ables and cash was stolen from a fam­i­ly at their Kel­ly Vil­lage home on Fri­day night.

A boat al­leged­ly trans­port­ing cop­per il­le­gal­ly to Venezuela over­turned in rough seas off south Trinidad late Fri­day night, leav­ing one Venezue­lan man dead while two oth­ers sur­vived.

An au­dio record­ing ref­er­enced in an af­fi­davit filed in the High Court on Fri­day by Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der is now at the cen­tre of an es­ca­lat­ing pub­lic de­bate over the con­tin­ued de­ten­tion of 69-year-old busi­ness­woman Star Sab­ga un­der a Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO).

As his voice cracked with emo­tion, for­mer House Speak­er Nizam Mo­hammed called on at­tor­neys to unite and form a con­sor­tium to fight for the re­lease of over 200 cit­i­zens who re­main in­car­cer­at­ed un­der Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders dur­ing the State of Emer­gency (SoE).

The An­ju­man Sun­nat ul Ja­maat As­so­ci­a­tion Inc. (AS­JA) has ex­pressed dis­ap­point­ment over Trinidad and To­ba­go's re­cent vote at the Unit­ed Na­tions con­cern­ing the reap­point­ment of the UN High Com­mis­sion­er for Hu­man Rights, say­ing it ap­pears to mark a de­par­ture from this coun­try's long­stand­ing sup­port for the Pales­tin­ian peo­ple.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s two largest busi­ness or­gan­i­sa­tions have wel­comed the re­duc­tion in Unit­ed States tar­iffs on lo­cal ex­ports, de­scrib­ing the move as a boost for ex­porters while warn­ing that busi­ness­es must con­tin­ue mon­i­tor­ing an in­creas­ing­ly un­cer­tain glob­al trad­ing en­vi­ron­ment.

On Ju­ly 18, 14 men car­ried out the largest es­cape in the his­to­ry of the Aripo Im­mi­gra­tion De­ten­tion Cen­tre (IDC) with a small fire.

Nine peo­ple be­ing held un­der Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs), along with two prison of­fi­cers, have been charged with mul­ti­ple of­fences fol­low­ing a Pris­on­er Pro­cess­ing Ex­er­cise con­duct­ed on Fri­day at the East­ern Cor­rec­tion­al Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre and the Ex­tend­ed Re­mand Fa­cil­i­ty.

When he was a teenag­er, Alex Philip left Venezuela, deeply en­trenched in a life of crime, to come to Trinidad to re­shape his des­tiny.

Three peo­ple, in­clud­ing a mem­ber of the Trinidad and To­ba­go De­fence Force, have been de­tained un­der Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) as the Counter Traf­fick­ing Unit (CTU) dis­man­tled an al­leged hu­man traf­fick­ing net­work dur­ing a mul­ti-agency op­er­a­tion span­ning Trinidad and To­ba­go.

As Trinidad and To­ba­go un­der­takes its first lo­cal­ly led deep-sea sci­en­tif­ic ex­pe­di­tion, a larg­er ques­tion emerges: Why are gov­ern­ments dis­cussing deep-sea min­ing in ecosys­tems sci­en­tists have bare­ly be­gun to un­der­stand?