Of­fi­cers of the North Cen­tral Di­vi­sion con­duct­ed the op­er­a­tion be­tween 3:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m.

A fa­ther of two suc­cumbed to his in­juries last night af­ter be­ing se­vere­ly beat­en in Friend­ship Vil­lage, San Fer­nan­do.

T&T So­ca War­riors suf­fered a 4-1 loss against neigh­bours Venezuela in their FI­FA Se­ries open­er at Pakhtakor Sta­di­um in Tashkent, Uzbek­istan this morn­ing.

A dri­ve-by shoot­ing in Bel­mont end­ed with the death of a 28-year-old man and the wound­ing of three oth­ers on Thurs­day night.

The haunt­ing screams of kid­nap vic­tim Tara Po­li­ah not on­ly il­lus­trat­ed the fear she faced when four men bun­dled her in­to a car, but the fear which gripped the Don Miguel Road, San Juan com­mu­ni­ty when he neigh­bours re­alised she had been grabbed by crim­i­nals.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter has or­dered the de­ten­tion of 24 more peo­ple be­lieved to be in­volved in gang ac­tiv­i­ties, in­clud­ing a po­lice of­fi­cer held for al­leged­ly tip­ping off crim­i­nals.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has said the ma­jor­i­ty of Unit­ed States troops in To­ba­go have left the is­land.

The Oil­field Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU) is pur­su­ing the restart of the Guaracara re­fin­ery with a dif­fer­ent com­pa­ny than Pa­tri­ot­ic En­er­gies and Tech­nolo­gies Ltd (PET), which the union had used in its un­suc­cess­ful 2019 bid for the re­fin­ery.

For­mer En­er­gy Min­is­ter Car­olyn Seep­er­sad-Bachan has warned that the coun­try can­not af­ford de­lays, opac­i­ty or con­flict­ing agen­das in the ef­fort to restart the Pointe-à-Pierre re­fin­ery. She says the na­tion must move with ur­gency, guid­ed by a trans­par­ent, cred­i­ble and clear­ly de­fined strat­e­gy to en­sure the re­fin­ery’s vi­a­bil­i­ty.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Man­u­fac­tur­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTMA) is ex­press­ing hope that po­lit­i­cal de­ci­sions do not hurt trade re­la­tions be­tween lo­cal busi­ness­es and the Cari­com com­mu­ni­ty.

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) coun­cil­lors staged an “un­prece­dent­ed” walk­out from a statu­to­ry meet­ing of the Tu­na­puna Pi­ar­co Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion (TPRC) yes­ter­day, cit­ing what they de­scribed as per­sis­tent dis­re­spect di­rect­ed at the par­ty and its po­lit­i­cal leader.

The Gov­ern­ment is fac­ing mount­ing ques­tions and grow­ing scruti­ny af­ter fail­ing to re­spond to re­peat­ed re­quests for clar­i­ty on the fu­ture of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s in­volve­ment in the Cuban med­ical mis­sion pro­gramme, even as re­gion­al coun­ter­parts be­gin step­ping away from sim­i­lar arrange­ments.