Two Trinidad and To­ba­go cit­i­zens were ar­rest­ed on De­cem­ber 10 fol­low­ing a joint op­er­a­tion by US and Trin­bag­on­ian au­thor­i­ties, the US Em­bassy in T&T con­firmed in a state­ment yes­ter­day.

Two Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­als are among six men ar­rest­ed dur­ing a mul­ti-agency op­er­a­tion in the British Vir­gin Is­lands that led to the seizure of 772.4 kilo­grammes of co­caine, ac­cord­ing to a me­dia re­lease is­sued yes­ter­day by that coun­try’s Po­lice In­for­ma­tion Of­fice.

For­mer T&T De­fence Force Lieu­tenant Com­man­der Nor­man Din­di­al is blast­ing Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro for fail­ing to make any ar­rests in two mul­ti-mil­lion-dol­lar drug busts over a span of 24 hours.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo says the Gov­ern­ment has not­ed the planned protest by nurs­ing staff over wage is­sues, but he is urg­ing them not to dis­rupt pa­tient care and es­sen­tial ser­vices.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro says the State of Emer­gency is not to be thanked for the re­duc­tion in crime in Port-of-Spain. Rather, he says the as­tute lead­er­ship of the po­lice of­fi­cers in the di­vi­sion have brought the re­sul­tant de­cline.

For­mer po­lice com­mis­sion­er Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher says that while life has con­tin­ued for her af­ter her ar­rest and de­par­ture from the TTPS, she is trust­ing God to bring jus­tice against those who she said “con­spired to end her ca­reer.”

Chief Sec­re­tary and To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty po­lit­i­cal leader Far­ley Au­gus­tine says the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly will roll out its own is­land­wide CCTV sys­tem. He says the is­land can no longer de­pend on na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty agen­cies af­ter mul­ti­ple mur­ders and rob­beries, where sus­pects es­caped by sea.

This Christ­mas sea­son has be­come one of an­guish for rel­a­tives of 20-year-old Tyrese Pe­ters and his 50-year-old cousin Ja­son Rolle, who have both been miss­ing since No­vem­ber 27.

Iere Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School held its Christ­mas event, Car­ols un­der the Stars, on the school grounds on Wednes­day evening. The event brought to­geth­er stu­dents, teach­ers, par­ents, and com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers for a night of mu­sic and cel­e­bra­tion.

Hours af­ter po­lice made a ma­jor drug bust in the Ca­roni Swamp, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar re­mind­ed young peo­ple that a life of crime is not the way for­ward.

A fire that reignit­ed yes­ter­day along Cipero Street in San Fer­nan­do brought busi­ness ac­tiv­i­ty to a near stand­still for a sec­ond straight day, as fire­fight­ers were forced to re­turn to con­tain fresh smoke and heat ris­ing from the smoul­der­ing site.

The Oc­cu­pa­tion­al Safe­ty and Health Au­thor­i­ty (OSH Au­thor­i­ty) is no clos­er to know­ing the fate of its par­al­lel pros­e­cu­tions against Paria Fu­el Trad­ing Com­pa­ny and Land and Ma­rine Con­tract­ing Ser­vices Ltd (LM­CS) over an in­ci­dent at Paria’s Pointe-a-Pierre fa­cil­i­ty, which claimed the lives of four divers in 2022.