Syl­van “Split Peas” Thomas, of Covi­gne Road, Diego Mar­tin, was ac­quit­ted of the charge at the end of his judge-alone tri­al be­fore Jus­tice Trevor Jones on Wednes­day.

Po­lice are prob­ing a mur­der in Cunu­pia, af­ter the bul­let-rid­dled body of a man was dis­cov­ered at his home on Wednes­day.

An Or­ange Lev­el River­ine Flood Alert re­mains in ef­fect for parts of Trinidad as dan­ger­ous­ly high riv­er lev­els threat­en flood-prone com­mu­ni­ties along the Ca­roni, Manuel Con­go and South Oropouche Rivers.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice has ex­tend­ed its yel­low-lev­el Ad­verse Weath­er Alert to 4:00 p.m. Fri­day. The TTMS warns of an in­creased risk of pe­ri­od­ic heavy show­ers and iso­lat­ed thun­der­storms.

At least 240 peo­ple were killed when an Air In­dia plane crashed Thurs­day in­to a med­ical school short­ly af­ter take-off. It was the lat­est in a long list of avi­a­tion dis­as­ters this year.

One pas­sen­ger sur­vived the crash of an Air In­dia plane bound for Lon­don that killed at least 240 peo­ple Thurs­day in Ahmed­abad, one of In­dia’s worst air­line dis­as­ters in decades, of­fi­cials said.

In the Ma­yaro ad­min­is­tra­tive dis­trict, the Mafek­ing Riv­er was mea­sured at 40% ca­pac­i­ty. A to­tal of 60 sand­bags were dis­trib­uted to help mit­i­gate any fur­ther im­pact from the rain­fall.

A re­tired teacher from Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege, San Fer­nan­do and her broth­er were each grant­ed $6,000 bail af­ter they were charged with pos­ses­sion of co­caine.

Op­po­si­tion Leader and Ari­ma MP Pen­ne­lope Beck­les says she is keep­ing a close watch on the sit­u­a­tion in Aripo fol­low­ing re­cent ad­verse weath­er.

A 32-year-old man from Cunu­pia was ar­rest­ed on Wednes­day dur­ing a drug-re­lat­ed op­er­a­tion con­duct­ed by the South-West­ern Di­vi­sion­al Task Force.

The Ca­roni Li­cens­ing Of­fice has been closed for the rest of the day. Of­fice op­er­a­tions will start again on Fri­day, ac­cord­ing to a state­ment.

A co­or­di­nat­ed road check ex­er­cise con­duct­ed by the North Cen­tral Task Force on Wednes­day re­sult­ed in the ar­rest of a sus­pect in con­nec­tion with a re­port­ed kid­nap­ping and rob­bery.