The Ap­peal Court is seek­ing to bring clar­i­ty and set an es­tab­lished prece­dent in the in­ter­pre­ta­tion of the Bail Amend­ment Act that al­lows mur­der ac­cused to ap­ply for bail.

Three weeks af­ter a fam­i­ly was at­tacked in their home at Friend­ship Vil­lage in Ste Madeleine by gun­men, leav­ing a moth­er and son dead and two oth­ers in­jured, their neigh­bour suf­fered a sim­i­lar fate, which left him in crit­i­cal con­di­tion.

Four men, in­clud­ing a 13-year-old boy, were held by sev­er­al fire of­fi­cers they had ear­li­er robbed at the San­gre Grande Fire Sta­tion in the ear­ly hours yes­ter­day.

Four mem­bers of a Curepe fam­i­ly were tied up, robbed, and ter­rorised by armed men dur­ing a home in­va­sion in the ear­ly hours of Sun­day morn­ing.

A psy­chi­atric eval­u­a­tion has been re­quest­ed for the teenag­er who was re­spon­si­ble for start­ing a fire on Sun­day which gut­ted the fam­i­ly’s home in San­ta Cruz. Rel­a­tives of the 16-year-old re­port­ed that the girl be­gan “act­ing strange­ly and speak­ing of hear­ing strange voic­es” some time ago.

Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro has con­firmed the sus­pen­sion of gas agree­ments with Trinidad and To­ba­go, say­ing the de­ci­sion stems from what he de­scribed as “hos­tile ac­tions” by the Gov­ern­ment of Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar.

For­mer mur­der ac­cused and al­leged ex­tor­tion­ist Michael “Rat” Ma­haraj was grant­ed bail on five charges of de­mand­ing mon­ey by men­ace last Fri­day.

Two Long­denville men were shot at their home on Sun­day af­ter­noon by sus­pects who re­port­ed­ly came look­ing to buy mar­i­jua­na.

Four men, in­clud­ing a 13-year-old boy, have been ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with an al­leged rob­bery at the San­gre Grande Fire Sta­tion in the ear­ly hours of Oc­to­ber 27.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Cham­ber of Com­merce says it is dis­ap­point­ed by the de­ci­sion of Venezue­lan Vice Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez to end the En­er­gy Co­op­er­a­tion Frame­work Agree­ment signed on Feb­ru­ary 24, 2015, be­tween both coun­tries.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has de­scribed Venezue­lan Vice Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez’s an­nounce­ment propos­ing the sus­pen­sion of the En­er­gy Co­op­er­a­tion Frame­work Agree­ment with Trinidad and To­ba­go as “alarm­ing, un­for­tu­nate and deeply con­cern­ing.”

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has re­spond­ed to re­cent state­ments by Venezue­lan Vice Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez re­gard­ing the Drag­on gas project and the de­nun­ci­a­tion of the En­er­gy Co­op­er­a­tion Frame­work Agree­ment. Her com­ments were made in an in­ter­view with Guardian Me­dia Lim­it­ed.