Two men have died fol­low­ing sep­a­rate shoot­ings in Laven­tille and Pe­tit Val­ley be­tween Fri­day and to­day.

Tens of thou­sands of demon­stra­tors marched through the streets of Rome on Sat­ur­day against the war in Gaza in a protest called by Italy’s main op­po­si­tion par­ties, who ac­cuse the right-wing gov­ern­ment of be­ing too silent.

The Unit­ed States Coast Guard said Fri­day it in­ter­cept­ed more than US$138 mil­lion worth of il­lic­it drugs dur­ing mul­ti­ple op­er­a­tions in the Caribbean Sea.

Of­fi­cers in the To­ba­go Di­vi­sion seized a firearm, am­mu­ni­tion, and over one kilo­gramme of cannabis dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in Buc­coo Vil­lage on Thurs­day.

Reg­gae artiste Siz­zla has pub­licly re­fut­ed claims that he de­mand­ed pay­ment equal to an­oth­er per­former—who failed to ap­pear—in or­der to close the One Caribbean Mu­sic Fes­ti­val. He de­scribed the al­le­ga­tion as a “bla­tant lie”.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal has wel­comed the lat­est de­vel­op­ments in Shell’s Man­a­tee gas project and called on the com­pa­ny to ex­plore in­creased gas out­put, cit­ing the ur­gent need to ad­dress Trinidad and To­ba­go’s gas short­age.

Imam Rasheed Karim of Masjid-ul-Faaraquan in Fe­lic­i­ty de­liv­ered a stir­ring Eid-ul-Ad­ha ser­mon on Sat­ur­day, warn­ing the Mus­lim com­mu­ni­ty about the dan­gers of “men­tal idol­a­try”.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing a rob­bery at the Pi­ta Pit out­let in the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port that oc­curred around 10 o’clock last night.

As school and Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials move to take stricter ap­proach­es to school vi­o­lence, at least three South East Port-of-Spain Sec­ondary School (SE­PoSS) stu­dents want those in au­thor­i­ty to stop play­ing “pol­i­tics” with the school’s fu­ture and think about the chil­dren.

Law en­force­ment of­fi­cials say they dis­rupt­ed two sus­pect­ed hu­man traf­fick­ing op­er­a­tions yes­ter­day, de­tain­ing 45 peo­ple across Trinidad in one of the coun­try’s largest co­or­di­nat­ed crack­downs to date.

Hu­man rights ac­tivist Sofia Figueroa-Leon is wel­com­ing Gov­ern­ment’s an­nounce­ment that a new mi­grant pol­i­cy will be rolled out. But she in­sists that it needs to be done hu­mane­ly and holis­ti­cal­ly, un­like the ones be­fore.

A Ca­roni man who was ac­cus­tomed to dri­ving his friend to the Cen­tral Mar­ket, Port-of-Spain, as part of a week­ly rit­u­al, was am­bushed and shot mul­ti­ple times and left to die on the road, in what po­lice be­lieve could be a rob­bery.