Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro paid trib­ute to slain po­lice of­fi­cer PC Solomon Mc Leod on Sun­day dur­ing a wreath-lay­ing cer­e­mo­ny mark­ing the 36th an­niver­sary of the 1990 At­tempt­ed Coup.

An 82-year-old woman died af­ter a fire de­stroyed part of her Diego Mar­tin home on Sun­day af­ter­noon, with in­ves­ti­ga­tors still try­ing to de­ter­mine what sparked the blaze.

Two men were ar­rest­ed and a firearm along with a large quan­ti­ty of cannabis were seized dur­ing sep­a­rate po­lice op­er­a­tions in the West­ern and South West­ern Di­vi­sions on Sun­day.

A High Court Judge has or­dered the re­lease of 69-year-old cheese mak­er Star Sab­ga on house ar­rest.

More than three months af­ter sev­en-year-old An­gel­i­ca Jo­gie died in a jet ski ac­ci­dent in To­ba­go, the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) has ad­vised that the op­er­a­tor be charged with manslaugh­ter.

The pub­lic has been ad­vised that the Massy Stores branch on French Street, Wood­brook, will open from noon to­day fol­low­ing a re­port­ed break-in at the com­pa­ny’s ware­house and the dis­cov­ery of a body in a va­cant lot near­by.

A group of men lim­ing at a Diego Mar­tin bar came to the aid of a pa­tron who was at­tacked by two ban­dits on Sun­day af­ter­noon.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has ac­cused crit­ics of the Gov­ern­ment’s an­ti-crime cam­paign of at­tempt­ing to in­flame racial ten­sions and un­der­mine Trinidad and To­ba­go’s pro­tec­tive ser­vices, as the ad­min­is­tra­tion faces mount­ing crit­i­cism over its use of in­tel­li­gence, pre­ven­tive de­ten­tion or­ders and as­sis­tance from Unit­ed States se­cu­ri­ty agen­cies in a high-pro­file al­leged as­sas­si­na­tion plot in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

Po­lice said res­i­dents re­port­ed hear­ing gun­shots along Palm Road around 7.50 pm. Of­fi­cers re­spond­ed and found the body of Da­le­on La­fon in the yard of a near­by home with mul­ti­ple gun­shot wounds.

At­tor­ney Fa­reed Ali yes­ter­day urged the Gov­ern­ment to clear the air over the au­then­tic­i­ty of the au­dio record­ing in­volv­ing Genevieve Hadeed and her aunt Star Sab­ga, which has be­come the cen­tre of an es­ca­lat­ing pub­lic de­bate on so­cial me­dia.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Sen­a­tor Fos­ter Cum­mings yes­ter­day warned that the leaked Hadeed-Sab­ga au­dio record­ing rais­es se­ri­ous ques­tions about cit­i­zens’ pri­va­cy rights, say­ing every per­son should be con­cerned if pri­vate con­ver­sa­tions can no longer re­main pri­vate.

Af­ter be­ing de­tained a month ago on Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs), two men ac­cused of fly­ing drones in­to pris­ons were charged on Sat­ur­day and are to ap­pear in court vir­tu­al­ly to­day.